Open systems solutions (OES) for the 2010 elections? UP Diliman's Computer Science Department was already tapped to develop the open source software for the proposed OES. Former COMELEC chair Christian Monsod said the OES automated election system costs around P4 billion, as opposed to the proposed P11.3 billion supplemental budget for the poll automation. TransparentElections.org head Augusto Lagman said open source software could safeguard against tampering of the software code because developer communities can check and improve on it, unlike proprietary software that’s only available to the vendor.
Under the OES system, votes are cast and tallied manually at the precinct level. Election results are then brought to a school for encoding by volunteers. Board of election inspectors will then validate the encoded election results before posting to the web. Board of canvassers will access the public database for precinct voting results to produce the statement of votes and certificates of canvass. Media can access the results on the database and via mobile phones. Database results may then be compared with election returns posted on each precinct door.
Wow. With everyone having access to the voting results data, it would be quite difficult to manipulate the results. Hope this flies.
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Taking it a step further, perhaps a real-time web-based election is not too far-fetched. Imagine voters lining up to polling stations, casting their votes via a secure webpage (akin to our CRS procedures). Voters can have their username printed in their voters ID, and a one-time password be given to them when they show up on the polling place. Results can be generated instantaneously, and be made available for everyone to view. Various methods and schemes can be put in place to boost and complement data integrity (since it has been the prime issue in computerized elections)
Of course, we can expect vigorous objections from those who are in the business of manipulating poll results. And im guessing that if ever a system like this gets approved, we would have miraculous, simultaneous and widespread hardware/network/internet breakdowns on election day.
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