Q: Do you think we’ll adopt the electronic voting system?
A. No
B. HELL No
C. No way in hell
D. head thrown back HAHAHAHAHA
E. All the above + smacking fist on floor cracking self up!
Q: Do you think we’ll adopt the electronic voting system?
A. No
B. HELL No
C. No way in hell
D. head thrown back HAHAHAHAHA
E. All the above + smacking fist on floor cracking self up!
#1 by MBH on April 19, 2009 - 9:25 PM
Knowing that they will rely on some crap solution that has no standard and flawed in so many ways that it can’t be even audited (like what happened in the USA), I sincerely hope that they never implement it.
They implemented the counting system and it had “problems”
If you can bribe the system maker, system admin, auditors, or the infrastructure guys, then what’s the point?
#2 by MBH on April 19, 2009 - 9:26 PM
One more thing: Advanced expensive system will not compensate for people’s integrity.
#3 by Bloggylife on April 19, 2009 - 9:41 PM
everything is flawed and has an error margin, but even our current manual system is all messed up!
I think automating the system/process and perhaps integrate it with our supposedly future e-government infrastructure will be a great project, we can learn from others mistakes
I don’t think you need to bribe the IT backbone ppl, bribe the voters themselves, isn’t that what they are doing ;P
#4 by MBH on April 19, 2009 - 10:27 PM
Bribing the voters is easier than bribing the vote collecting dudes, for now.
Some universities have come up with great voting systems with encryption, audit trail and interfaces.
If the project is to take place here, it has to be supervised by PhD holders from Computer Engineering and Science faculties.
Integrating it tightly with the fingerprint system of the country will be quite difficult. Any loophole would result in the ability of accessing the country’s database(s).
#5 by Bloggylife on April 19, 2009 - 10:54 PM
hmmm, I’m not the expert in application development, but just like banking messaging system, you don’t allow full access to the database information as a whole, scan finger print, read only from e-government database maybe Interior ministry, log user and voting status on voting systems … brainstorming here and of course you need experts hands on but I wouldn’t say PhD holders per say, but experts who have experience with such applications and systems
#6 by MBH on April 19, 2009 - 11:01 PM
I meant PhD holders to supervise from out end, and of course in addition to experts.
If you gain access to the network of the banking system, you can sniff information, whether it’s for a specific bank or all.
You from all people should know about this
Plus, have you seen e-government websites? I found a bug in one of them that allowed me to retrieve people’s personal information. I notified the proper people and the bug is still there…
#7 by Bloggylife on April 22, 2009 - 6:18 PM
Things are built based what is most secured now and then. Security is compromised as you expand and add more functionality, so you have no choice in that matter. Like, on-line banking, some may argue security issues, but if you don’t provide to end users they’ll shift to another bank.
I’m not surprised that you found a bug and even more NOT surprised that they still didn’t do anything about it!
#8 by Bashar on April 24, 2009 - 5:40 PM
How about… any chance we will get rid of elections?
#9 by M on April 25, 2009 - 12:10 AM
lool.. what if i think its a yes?
#10 by Bloggylife on April 25, 2009 - 5:44 PM
Bashar, AHA, good one ;D
M, I would say, you’re very optimistic