Election Commission of Pakistan – Electronic Voting System
We are so called nation of IT Heads and we can’t even straighten up our voting system? Is it hard to do all this when we have bar-coded National ID cards and our thumb impressions are registered in national biometrics database?
All you need are THREE things:
1. a barcode reader
2. a biometrics reader
3. a reliable internet connection
Once the voter will enter any voting booth around the world he/she will swipe his/her ID card which will be verified against national database based on the bar code on NIC
Then the voter will cast a vote and the system will ask for his or her thumb impression for verification, once verified the vote will be casted while blocking that ID number for any further votes
No need for ECP agents to waste their time in distributing the ECP forms in streets asking you to list the voters at home and then entering wrong data in the system. The NADRA database must match the location of the person to his/her respective constituency from NIC and then cast his or her vote in their city, either they are in Pakistan or traveling around. It would save a lot of money in terms of printing the voter lists registration and to pay the staff on road + the wages of the staff entering the data.
Benefits:
• No need for voter’s registration
• Once a person is 18+ and has a NIC, he/she will be eligible for voting automatically
• Only living persons will be able to cast their votes
• Only one voter will be able to cast one vote only
• Overseas Pakistanis will be added to the voters system also
• Results will be perfect and fast
• No bogus votes or attacks on polling stations where someone will take the entire ballot box
All overseas embassy schools can setup voting booths easily thus allowing the citizens to exercise their right of voting. Overseas Pakistanis will be more than willing to bare the cost of the hardware equipment required.
Few Questions
I don’t understand this system of constituencies, if someone is winning with clear majority of 25000 votes or 10000 votes, he is just winning with no extra benefit of the extra votes thus not reflecting true opinion of voters. Same goes for the candidate loosing even after getting 20000 or 9000 votes, then all those votes are not accounted for? They are just wasted? What about who voted for loosing candidate?
Is it democracy? Is it the true reflection of people's choice? Why all +18 are not automatically added to the vote bank? Why registrations are required for them? What if at the last moment they want to exercise their right of voting as well?
Edited by user Thursday, June 5, 2014 3:19:24 AM(UTC)
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