Electronic Voting System
Disadvantages of electronic voting
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Why do we want to introduce e-voting in next general elections in Bangladesh? Will this ensure free and fair election under the current political environment in our country? The answer undoubtedly will be in the negative, writes Shama Obaed Recently, there has been a debate going on regarding electronic voting, after the Election Commission mentioned a possible plan to introduce electronic voting system in the next general elections. Our prime minister and other ministers of the present government sided with EC’s decision and have spoken in favour of electronic voting. The main opposition party BNP has opposed the idea of e-voting. Although, in the process and ‘excitement’ of building ‘Digital Bangladesh’, it might seem a befitting idea to establish electronic voting system in our country, but I truly think, all the responsible persons of the government and at the EC should seriously analyse the severe disadvantages of e-voting, even before thinking about it as an option for our voting system. They should also seriously investigate why one of the largest democracies, like India and the US, have strongly given valid arguments against electronic voting.
What is actually electronic voting, also known as, e-voting? E-voting is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote, storing the voting record in some database, and electronic means of counting votes. According to ‘E-voting: International developments and lessons learnt’ written by T Buchsbaum, there are two main types of e-voting that can be identified. One is e-voting, which is physically supervised by representatives of governmental or independent electoral authorities (for example electronic voting machines located at polling stations); and the other one is remote e-voting where voting is performed within the voter’s sole influence, and is not physically supervised by representatives of
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Why do we want to introduce e-voting in next general elections in Bangladesh? Will this ensure free and fair election under the current political environment in our country? The answer undoubtedly will be in the negative, writes Shama Obaed Recently, there has been a debate going on regarding electronic voting, after the Election Commission mentioned a possible plan to introduce electronic voting system in the next general elections. Our prime minister and other ministers of the present government sided with EC’s decision and have spoken in favour of electronic voting. The main opposition party BNP has opposed the idea of e-voting. Although, in the process and ‘excitement’ of building ‘Digital Bangladesh’, it might seem a befitting idea to establish electronic voting system in our country, but I truly think, all the responsible persons of the government and at the EC should seriously analyse the severe disadvantages of e-voting, even before thinking about it as an option for our voting system. They should also seriously investigate why one of the largest democracies, like India and the US, have strongly given valid arguments against electronic voting.
What is actually electronic voting, also known as, e-voting? E-voting is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote, storing the voting record in some database, and electronic means of counting votes. According to ‘E-voting: International developments and lessons learnt’ written by T Buchsbaum, there are two main types of e-voting that can be identified. One is e-voting, which is physically supervised by representatives of governmental or independent electoral authorities (for example electronic voting machines located at polling stations); and the other one is remote e-voting where voting is performed within the voter’s sole influence, and is not physically supervised by representatives of