2009/7/13 Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]>: > > I volunteered as IT consultant for CenPEG, the Center for People Empowerment > in Governance. This is a NGO, and it is engaged in a project to document and > analyze the computerized 2010 elections. CenPEG is not against > computerization. It is in favor of computerization, provided that appropriate > safeguards are put in place to minimize possibilities of cheating. The CenPEG > project has a website: > > http://www.aes2010.net/ > > This website is under development, so please expect new things to be added > from time to time. > > CenPEG itself has a website: http://www.cenpeg.org/.
doc.. i would like to help for the future of our country... i strongly suggest to discuss this over a chat server where everybody can listen and interact.. there are lots of clarifications to asks but doing this in a mailing list will take more time... there are lots of issues to tackle... these are few issues to start with... 1. we know that in manual election... cheating are done during transporting of ballots (switching) and manipulation of canvas at the higher level.. this can be done also in automated system where i can see they can switch code during the transport of machines to precincts and switch it back to a clean one upon surrending the machines to comelec... 2. private key must be protected by using passphrase... even if the private key was stolen by the cheaters.. they cannot create a new ER and sign those fake ERs as only the owner of the key knows how to unlock it... but how the public/private key pair is going to create? during the election time or before? on or before election time have pros and cons and need to tackle this one also... 3. sending of data thru 3G networks - there are places in the philippines where there are no 3G signals in there.. only 2.5G signal and below such as GSM, GPRS (114kbps) or EDGE (236kbps) .. these are slow bandwidth... you can do the math how big is the data to be transmitted over these slow networks.. 1000 voters per machine times the average size of TIFF image plus the votes, logs and others.. 4. why still following the old fashion way of counting where ERs bring to municipal/provincial/congressional canvassers where cheating and manupilation are done there? why not ERs directly bring to the main canvassers in NCR as computers quickly count this and the results are just a few seconds away... ERs send to comelec, namfrel, and to a pubic server where others can do unofficial counting for parallel counting... there are lot more and i know there are solutions for the above issues... if you can suggest a chatting time and the name of a server where to login so that pluggers and IT group from CenPEG can interact with each other to tackle these issues very well... if there is a web based chat client to use.. much better so that others on mobile can join also... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
