Icycling Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 After Qing for about an hour today - why is it not possible to vote on line. Most thing these days are done online in a secure online environment - why not voting? Surely on voter registration days you should also be given the opportunity to choose to vote online? To write a secure program of this nature is certainly not impossible one would think, involving your name, ID no, then your user name and password like most banks have - that 4 items most banks have 3! Naturally providing a cell no and email address would be necessary thus enabling sms voting! Your ID no would need to be the key and would only allow 1 vote - sort of like a once of payment on internet banking When registering - this should be done online too - like with the CSA licensing a site map should come up and thus put you in your correct area! But if you live overseas you only would get to vote for the National vote. If this were to be implemented well the down side - would their need to be a holiday for voting day? The up side - I think far more people would vote and surely for all the people who travel life would be a lot easier no to mention the guys who are now allowed to vote who live overseas!
longweasel Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 I could not agree more. If we can do online banking and transfer millions of rands, sars,pay fines everything else.For those that dont have internet access they could still do the manual thing. I like the way the ballots are full colour is that necessary ?? They were chatting about it on 702 apparently a few countries india and the states have started to automate there system. Besides all that ill vote for the party you gives away free bikes!!
porky Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 How would the IEC know its YOU behind the computer and not your 14 year old teenage son / daughter who you gave all your passwords to and said have fun.?? You are lucky, here in Bedford it was a two and a bit hour wait.porky2009-04-22 10:07:28
Icycling Posted April 22, 2009 Author Posted April 22, 2009 Um President - not likely! But I have asked winning time to look at system where in the Western Cape for funride you hopefully will be able to pitch and ride in your seeded categories without going to registration table for a helmet sticker. The Marshal will thus be making sure you have your Timing chip! Entry system to be decided - maybe a bulk online entry - replacing easy entries, online entries, or even sms entry, and maybe finally your credit card linked to your timing chip and as you go over the start mats you enter! So hopefully no more Qing at funrides if you a PPA member with a PPA number. Well we will see what comes of this in the future!
Icycling Posted April 22, 2009 Author Posted April 22, 2009 Porky - thus the reason for registering online within the preceding months! Hopefully you have the brains to choose numbers you son and daughters do not know and can remember what you chose just a few months prior to the election. If not maybe your sons and daughters should be doing the voting in the family!
Christopher Brunsdon Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 Never happen, open to more corruption. Same reason why where one of the few emerging market to still use paper ballets - distrust (Even India and Brazil have gone electronic) But anyway, it was faster to vote this afternoon than to buy a Big Mac at McDonalds. I guess its a matter of timing.
Contaminated Haggis Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 Porky - thus the reason for registering online within the preceding months! Hopefully you have the brains to choose numbers you son and daughters do not know and can remember what you chose just a few months prior to the election. If not maybe your sons and daughters should be doing the voting in the family! What stops the anonymous buying of passwords / pin numbers? Just because you 'have the brains' to keep things secret from your offspring, doesnt mean you wont say no to a bribe for your credentials. Corruption is so rife in SA and lining ones pockets means more to some people than the demise of their country. Also, just remember that almost half of the SA population fall into the indifference category because they didnt even register. Having them register and then buying their passwords would definitely see changes in power, but how could there be a measure of 'free and fair'? dougaroony2009-04-22 11:24:00
Gert Janse v Rensburg Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 22mins in and out...... and that included the drive to my voting station.....what seems to be the problem.... and I live in howtengaleng.....
porky Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 Porky - thus the reason for registering online within the preceding months! Hopefully you have the brains to choose numbers you son and daughters do not know and can remember what you chose just a few months prior to the election. If not maybe your sons and daughters should be doing the voting in the family! I just used that as an example, but whats to stop you GIVING your kids the numbers and saying, "I am off riding, vote for me". Think it wont happen?? ............think again. What about hackers, if they can hack the banks, they will certainly hack this type of system,.......... what about using multiple computers and fraudulent Id docs to register 20 times and vote 20 times, or 200 times even.? Or as someone else said, sell your vote,- your kids dont have food today, sell your vote for a few rand and they eat...................Hmmmmm, heres my vote.! Sorry mate, will never work, but its a nice discussion point.
Icycling Posted April 22, 2009 Author Posted April 22, 2009 And today elections went off 100% Ok. Fraud in one area, someone loosing all their polling stations stuff Qing after 9 and no doubt the list will go on!
porky Posted April 23, 2009 Posted April 23, 2009 Of course they didnt, nowhere in the world do they, there will always be issues and enquiries, but at least we followed a recognised and approved international system of voting where checks and balances are tried and tested, where the basis of one man one vote is enforced by marking systems, where no 12 year old kid can make a vote, where no votes can be sold and so on. Its not necessary to re-invent the wheel.
fandacious Posted April 23, 2009 Posted April 23, 2009 more than 50% of the registered voters dont even have access to running water. Where on earth are they going to get a computer from?
AuctionLamb Posted April 23, 2009 Posted April 23, 2009 Online voting will not work....if someone hacks into that database!!!!
scotty Posted April 23, 2009 Posted April 23, 2009 Perhaps a form of electronic voting in polling stations where you select your party on screen but an internet type one i dont see as workable. Besides this will put a lot of boerrie roll and coke vendors who make a bit of money selling on the day out of work.
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