Below is an extract of a techweek.es article we present to you, where Rodolfo Lomascolo, vice-President of the STS Group and general manager of ipsCA gives his opinion about electronic voting.
Electronic voting allowed entities in need, to carry out their processes lowering costs and increasing participation without harming transparency, vote secrecy, and even creating an electronic proof allowing to have a trace of everything happening in the electronic process. Moreover, with the current technology, all this, the voting process and the trace can be saved insuring its originality and the integrity of all this electronic data.
New technologies allow to “anonymise” the citizens’ vote after knowing who voted, which safeguards its characteristic of secrecy. The process is the following:
• The vote is inserted in an electronic ballot box where it is mixed with the rest of the votes, so that what vote is from who is unknown. It is capable of knowing who the person voting is, but not to know his vote, since the person becomes anonymous as soon as he/she enters. Lastly, when doing the recount they don’t know who it comes from. The system also prevents people voting two times as it recognises the voter.
This system does even allow voters to vote when they like, since the votes will not go to recount until the application allows it, in other words, once the voting process is closed. This allows for the election processes to be open over a longer period of time, and for the voters to vote when they see fit, without the need to take a day to go to the polling place.
The technology is, step by step, overtaking paper while reinforcing participation and democracy for electoral processes for associations, football teams, shareholder committees, governments, etc.