Views and Opinion regarding Automated Election
Nowadays corporation take the advantage of technological advancements to help improve the functionality and security of data being processed inside the company. Various system of file keeping and storing of information are being used as tools for corporate development and progress. Most organizations find the usual system of manual handling of data time-consuming and more prone to error and irregularities. Thus, database systems are developed to electronically keep and manage data being processed by the company. This provides the company’s potential for producing more accurate and timely information for operating, controlling, and planning purposes. The performance of every employee greatly affects the output quality of work.
Like in the company that needs technological advancements to help improve the functionality and security of data being processed and its affects the output quality of work. Our country also needs technological advancements to ensure security towards a clean and honest election.
When we talk about automated first come into our main is from the word itself “automated” it is to convert a process or workplace to automation, or utilize the techniques of automation. It is the use of technology that governs the people to do their task and greatly affects the output quality of work like in the company because automated is fast and gives accurate data than manual election. Manual election takes time and months to declare a winner but in case of automated it takes hours to declare a winner and it save time and effort.
Automated Election
In this matter the Total Information Management Corp.'s (TIM) joint venture with Smartmatic to supply Commission on Elections (COMELEC) an automated machines to use these coming 2010 Philippine Elections.
The Smartmatic Auditable Election System (SAES) is a fully-automated, electronic voting system that is completely secure, reliable and auditable. The powerful combination of robust hardware, secure software and highly qualified personnel enables the SAES system to guarantee elections that voters can trust, in any part of the world. From its voting machines that feature a variety of vote input devices, customizable interfaces and printed voter receipts, to its secure data transmission networks, high-end tallying servers, immediate results tabulation and fully auditable paper trail, the SAES technological platform is the only end-to–end system available that ensures democracy rules, cost effectively.
Benefits of Automated Election
1.) Security. This system is created by combining internationally recognized and standard-based security algorithms. The voters won’t have to worry about election tampering.
2.) Immediacy. Not only do SAES voting machines allow voters to cast their choice more quickly, they allow the results to be known just minutes after the last polling place has closed.
3.) Veracity. Smartmatic was the first company in the world to include printed receipts so every voter can verify that their on screen selections were recorded accurately. This not only establishes an auditable paper trail, but invites public trust and establishes the credibility of the election.
4.) Economy. The digital voting process reduces the cost of holding an election because it requires greatly reduced human and economic resources. In addition, a thousand tons of paper can be saved because the need to print anything is eliminated almost entirely!
5.) Auditing. A prerequisite of Smartmatic’s engagement is that a series of audits are undertaken before, during and after the election. SAES has been designed to make this a simple procedure, creating what we believe is the most transparent automated-voting process available in the world.
6.) Flexibility. Our electorate has its own laws and conventions for tallying votes. That’s why SAES has been designed to make configuration for different tallying methods easy. Whether we use D’Hondt, simple majority, relative majority or other counting methods, you won’t incur costly reprogramming fees.
7.) Accessibility. Voters with disabilities can be accommodated comfortably by SAES voting machines. Buttons with specific shapes and colors, sip-and-puff devices and special earphones are just some of the features our machines possess in order to guarantee equality and independence for all voters.
8.) Versatility. Smartmatic recognizes the value of innovations that contribute to security so we engineered SAES in a way that lets it integrate readily with civil registration and voter identification systems. SAES makes it easier to build on the security platform you already have in place.
9.) Autonomy .In those cases where an electoral agency requires operational control, Smartmatic provides licensing solutions. Structured as a turnkey agreement with ongoing support, the technology transfer can be achieved in the mid- to long- term, after training has been completed. http://www.smartmatic.com/solutions/automated-election-system/single-view/article/the-new-standard-of-modern-democracy/
All the nine features of Smartmatic Auditable Election System (SAES) ensure a credible modulation of power and have clean, honest and orderly 2010 Philippine elections. With this automated election irregularities such as vote-buying, cheating in the counting of votes, flying voters and harassment of voters that happen last few national election campaign periods will be avoided.
In fact, the country’s first trial of automated elections, which took place in the August 2008 elections for officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), was very successful from the voters’ points of view, according to a post-election survey in ARMM by Social Weather Stations (SWS). http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090314-194090/ARMM-voters-liked-their-automated-elections
"Setting up the country's automated electoral system is a crucial step toward clean and honest elections. While it will not be a cure-all for the country's electoral problems, automating the polls will eliminate a lot of the human intervention that has made vote-rigging possible." said Angara who authored the automated election law.
"The heart of a true democracy lies in achieving clean and honest elections which provide mandate and authority to elect public officials. Our laws mandate the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to use an automated election system in the conduct of national and local elections to encourage transparency, credibility, fairness and accuracy of elections," said Angara.http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2009/0702_angara1.asp
Therefore being an Information Technology student and a citizen in our country our main concern is to have an honest and clean election this coming 2010. This automated election ensure us the security of our votes that will facilitate a fair and honest elections and provides us an unquestionable new set of government leaders that will unite the country in facing the challenges ahead of us.
Nowadays corporation take the advantage of technological advancements to help improve the functionality and security of data being processed inside the company. Various system of file keeping and storing of information are being used as tools for corporate development and progress. Most organizations find the usual system of manual handling of data time-consuming and more prone to error and irregularities. Thus, database systems are developed to electronically keep and manage data being processed by the company. This provides the company’s potential for producing more accurate and timely information for operating, controlling, and planning purposes. The performance of every employee greatly affects the output quality of work.
Like in the company that needs technological advancements to help improve the functionality and security of data being processed and its affects the output quality of work. Our country also needs technological advancements to ensure security towards a clean and honest election.
When we talk about automated first come into our main is from the word itself “automated” it is to convert a process or workplace to automation, or utilize the techniques of automation. It is the use of technology that governs the people to do their task and greatly affects the output quality of work like in the company because automated is fast and gives accurate data than manual election. Manual election takes time and months to declare a winner but in case of automated it takes hours to declare a winner and it save time and effort.
Automated Election
In this matter the Total Information Management Corp.'s (TIM) joint venture with Smartmatic to supply Commission on Elections (COMELEC) an automated machines to use these coming 2010 Philippine Elections.
The Smartmatic Auditable Election System (SAES) is a fully-automated, electronic voting system that is completely secure, reliable and auditable. The powerful combination of robust hardware, secure software and highly qualified personnel enables the SAES system to guarantee elections that voters can trust, in any part of the world. From its voting machines that feature a variety of vote input devices, customizable interfaces and printed voter receipts, to its secure data transmission networks, high-end tallying servers, immediate results tabulation and fully auditable paper trail, the SAES technological platform is the only end-to–end system available that ensures democracy rules, cost effectively.
Benefits of Automated Election
1.) Security. This system is created by combining internationally recognized and standard-based security algorithms. The voters won’t have to worry about election tampering.
2.) Immediacy. Not only do SAES voting machines allow voters to cast their choice more quickly, they allow the results to be known just minutes after the last polling place has closed.
3.) Veracity. Smartmatic was the first company in the world to include printed receipts so every voter can verify that their on screen selections were recorded accurately. This not only establishes an auditable paper trail, but invites public trust and establishes the credibility of the election.
4.) Economy. The digital voting process reduces the cost of holding an election because it requires greatly reduced human and economic resources. In addition, a thousand tons of paper can be saved because the need to print anything is eliminated almost entirely!
5.) Auditing. A prerequisite of Smartmatic’s engagement is that a series of audits are undertaken before, during and after the election. SAES has been designed to make this a simple procedure, creating what we believe is the most transparent automated-voting process available in the world.
6.) Flexibility. Our electorate has its own laws and conventions for tallying votes. That’s why SAES has been designed to make configuration for different tallying methods easy. Whether we use D’Hondt, simple majority, relative majority or other counting methods, you won’t incur costly reprogramming fees.
7.) Accessibility. Voters with disabilities can be accommodated comfortably by SAES voting machines. Buttons with specific shapes and colors, sip-and-puff devices and special earphones are just some of the features our machines possess in order to guarantee equality and independence for all voters.
8.) Versatility. Smartmatic recognizes the value of innovations that contribute to security so we engineered SAES in a way that lets it integrate readily with civil registration and voter identification systems. SAES makes it easier to build on the security platform you already have in place.
9.) Autonomy .In those cases where an electoral agency requires operational control, Smartmatic provides licensing solutions. Structured as a turnkey agreement with ongoing support, the technology transfer can be achieved in the mid- to long- term, after training has been completed. http://www.smartmatic.com/solutions/automated-election-system/single-view/article/the-new-standard-of-modern-democracy/
All the nine features of Smartmatic Auditable Election System (SAES) ensure a credible modulation of power and have clean, honest and orderly 2010 Philippine elections. With this automated election irregularities such as vote-buying, cheating in the counting of votes, flying voters and harassment of voters that happen last few national election campaign periods will be avoided.
In fact, the country’s first trial of automated elections, which took place in the August 2008 elections for officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), was very successful from the voters’ points of view, according to a post-election survey in ARMM by Social Weather Stations (SWS). http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090314-194090/ARMM-voters-liked-their-automated-elections
"Setting up the country's automated electoral system is a crucial step toward clean and honest elections. While it will not be a cure-all for the country's electoral problems, automating the polls will eliminate a lot of the human intervention that has made vote-rigging possible." said Angara who authored the automated election law.
"The heart of a true democracy lies in achieving clean and honest elections which provide mandate and authority to elect public officials. Our laws mandate the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to use an automated election system in the conduct of national and local elections to encourage transparency, credibility, fairness and accuracy of elections," said Angara.http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2009/0702_angara1.asp
Therefore being an Information Technology student and a citizen in our country our main concern is to have an honest and clean election this coming 2010. This automated election ensure us the security of our votes that will facilitate a fair and honest elections and provides us an unquestionable new set of government leaders that will unite the country in facing the challenges ahead of us.
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