A Blue
Print for VotesApp ?
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Some 4 years back . I had suggested that
we , in India , switch-over to voting in Lok Sabha election , using a mobile
app , viz:
Following research paper ( 03 March 2016 ) , submitted by two researchers in Philippines , not
only proves that this is entirely possible but provides a detailed Blue Print (
including User Interfaces for such a mobile app –uncannily similar to what I
had described in VotesApp
! )
You can also look up this paper at :
www.ijarcsse.com
( Past Issues / 2016 / Vol 613 )
Reinforcing my suggestion , a TV episode on
BBC ( bbc.click / 23
April 2017 )
show-cased a similar Mobile based Voting App developed by a UK company / www.Smartmatic.com / whose chairman , Mark Malloch-Brown says :
“ Governments and International
Organizations alone cannot build the future we need . Citizen participation is
key to complete the equation “
Smartmatic web site claims :
Seven world records
Including the world’s largest automated
elections, the first to feature paper receipts, the first to feature
biometrically-activated voting sessions – and the world’s fastest voter
registration project using biometrics.
Then there is Institute
for Digital Democracy
which is working for Online
Voting in Ireland
A tiny country Estonia introduced Online Voting , way back in 2005 !
Not only for National Elections but also
for local elections .
For details , read ,
• All major principles of paper-voting
are followed
• Voting from any computer connected to
the Internet
• Alternative to the paper-ballot
• Digital voter register based on
population register
• Voter's identification with eID
• Virtual double envelope scheme
• Public-private key cryptography
• Virtual voting booth
As for the benefits / savings / revenue-generating
potential of VotesApp
, do look up :
·
When I think why a Software Super Power such as India is shying away from this epoch-making reform , I am reminded of what Winston
Churchill said in his radio broadcast in Oct 1939 :
“ I
cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery,
inside an enigma ; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national
interest."
When will our 800 + million voters tell the
politicians :
“ VotesApp is the KEY to our national self interest . In 2019
national elections , we will not vote in any other way “
26 April 2017
www.hemenparekh.in
/ blogs
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