This coming May 2010 the Philippines will vote for their next president. Now there are so many discussions already how the candidates pay for voters, or that they promise everything before the elections just to do something completely different afterward. Of course the word corruption is also heavily used in those discussions.
The Presidential elections 2010 will be counted through e-voting machines. This should at least make the voting process safe you think? Ha, think again. E-voting machines have been introduced in so many places before, and in nearly all of them the machines got easily hacked. All different kind of e-voting machines. The one used in Europe – hacked. Someone played chess on it while the other voters have been waiting to place their vote. Funny – but scary.
Then in the US elections, they also used e-voting machines – hacked again, as you can see in these videos
It is quite clear that electronic voting machines, even though they make the counting easier, are easy to manipulate. I am not sure if it is more safe to have a voting with pen and paper, but at least it can be watched and monitored very closely. Think about it – a place where there is a lot of corruption and hackable e-voting machines – hmmm…
The legal research, published in India, has already established that apart from hacking issues, the paperless or without paper receipt the EVM (electronic voting machine) is illegal. As per the law of Information and Technology the electronic transactions are suppose to generate a paper receipt otherwise they are illegal. Hence it is in the interest of nation, using EVMs, to shun these electronic voting machines, in the interest of democracy and the country. – AJAY JAGGA, Advocate, INDIA
The legal research, published in India, has already established that apart from hacking issues, the paperless or without paper receipt the EVM (electronic voting machine) is illegal. As per the law of Information and Technology the electronic transactions are suppose to generate a paper receipt otherwise they are illegal. Hence it is in the interest of nation, using EVMs, to shun these electronic voting machines, in the interest of democracy and the country. – AJAY JAGGA, Advocate, INDIA