Mas mo-grabe kono ang tikas kon ma-automated na ang eleksiyon

Dii man eksperto sa computer, apan sa ubos kong pangagpas, morag mas sayon ang pagpanikas pinaagi sa computer kay sa ato karong naandan nga mano-mano. .

Si Roberto Verzola sa Business World, nagkanayon: "The public will lose its chance to witness the votes as these are individually counted, and will be shown only when the canvassing is over." Sa ato pa, ma-wa'a ang transparency, kon ma-automated na. Wa'a nay makabantay sa counting, wa'a nay mga watcher. Ug natural, mas makapatuyang ang mga tikasan. Pilde gihapon ang lungsod.

Ania ang mga sayop ug tubag sa mga assumption bahin sa computerization:

1.Automation will eliminate human intervention. Tubag ni Verzola: "It will not. Automation can only reduce, but never eliminate, human intervention. Automated systems will always have points of human intervention - the programmers updating the software, the technicians maintaining or repairing the machine, the staff feeding the ballots to the machine, the staff handling the final output, etc., etc.. Reducing human intervention can actually work in favor of the cheats, who will now need to recruit fewer accomplices and deal with fewer potential witnesses to the fraud.

2. Automation will minimize, if not eliminate, cheating. Tubag ni Verzola: "It can do no such thing. If they work as intended, automated machines can only speed things up, and follow more faithfully the instructions of those who program them. If they are reprogrammed to cheat, the machines will follow the new instructions just as faithfully and quickly (hayahayas mga tikasan no?).

3. Safeguards can prevent cheats from manipulating an automated system. Tubag: "This is an illusion. Cheats can master automation technologies as well as anybody else. Sooner or later, they will be able to identify the system's weak points and break it." Bright kaayo ta ini

4. The main cause of cheating is the slow manual count. Tubag: "This confuses the symptom for the disease.. In fact, the precinct-level manual counting of votes is not slow. In most precincts, it is over within a few hours. More than that, the precinct is the most transparent part of the whole process. Cheating that occurs at this level involves a brazen, in-your-face kinds of acts that no machine can stop and no cheat can hide.

"In truth it is not the slow count that leads to cheating, but the other way around. It is cheating that leads to a slow count. The slow count is a symptom, and effect of the disease. It is cheating, the disease, which causes the slow count.

"The solution to cheating is to punish the cheats. Our laws say an election cheat shall be barred from holding public office for life. That alone, plus the jail terms, will make our elections clean and honest. Sadly, the 2004 election cheats went scot-free, kept their positions, or even got promoted." Morag correct si Verzola no, Dro?