Philippine Internet voting approved ‘in principle’–spokesman
Overseas Filipino workers and migrants in Singapore will be the first to try out Internet voting, according to a spokesperson of the Commission on Elections. A Spanish company demonstrated this technology late last year, and I was able to witness it. This is quite an interesting development for Filipinos abroad who want to participate in the country’s electoral process.
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THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) has approved “in principle” the Philippines’ first Internet voting, a spokesman told INQUIRER.net Tuesday.
“It has been approved in principle,” said James Jimenez, although he stressed that the Comelec was hammering out the details of the guidelines as of this writing.
The initial “area of implementation” of the Internet voting system will be Singapore, Jimenez said.
He said Comelec would tap the services of Spanish technology supplier Scytl, in partnership with computer vendor HP.
baratillo @ cubao » Blog Archive » The on-line ballot on 17 Jan 2007 at 2:41 pm
[...] A bit of interesting news from Erwin Oliva (CyberBaguioBoy) about the Comelec approving in “principle” a plan to would allow Filipinos overseas to vote via the Internet. To approve in principle means that, at present or for now, the Comelec is leaning to yes for the Internet voting. The plan has a long road to travel before it can even get started. Provided that it is a relatively (i) reliable and (ii) secure system for voting it would be a welcome innovation to voting in the Philippines. And if it were to be implemented properly and again more than adequate safeguards be put in place hopefully it would be expanded to local and national voting as well. A lot of ifs in the plan I know but a welcome development if it were successfully done. Here is Erwin’s article about the plan: Comelec approves ‘in principle’ Internet voting–spokesman by Erwin Oliva January 16, 2007 Updated 17:13:44 (Mla time) INQUIRER.net http://services.inquirer.net/express/07/01/16/html_output/xmlhtml/20070116-43770-xml.html [...]
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