The Good:
IN the age of information technology, the selection process for people seeking to lead the country is done best with automation. Human interventions is minimized thus, minimizes human error and cheating. Permutation of candidates used by most politicians to mark ballots are totally eliminated.
Take for instance poll a chairman who is prone to commit mistakes during the late part of manual counting of ballots. He or she will no longer have a change because ballots are fed to the counting machines so the human error due to human interventions is totally eliminated. On the other hand, people who cast their ballots and who happens to intentionally mark their ballots by permuting candidates can no longer do so because names of candidates are already in place. Thus, it will not allow the same to show proof to anybody which candidates he or she indeed vote.
It is apparent that automating the election is definitely a solution to an efficient and fast selection process.
The Bad:
It can also be bad for the people because the money that is used to automate could be used to build schools and hospitals. It can be also be used to buy medicines and food. In the Philippines, small amount that the government can save to spend just one meal for the poor people is a huge help. So it is critical that opportunity for poor people will not be compromised. Huge amount from the government coffers must go to the nutrition and health related programs. If a child dies from dengue due to the unavailability of medicines, then it's outrageous over misuse of funds due to effective servants being elected in spite the huge amount spent for poll automation.
The Ugly:
E-cheating is the new challenge that we are facing in the age of information technology. That is what electronic fraud is all about. It is cheating on the electronic level. Although manual cheating is eliminated, there is even quick but expensive cheating done electronically.
There are different levels of cheating electronically. First on the precinct level, anybody can access the system as long as it has administrator login and password. From there if one has the encryption algorithm it can easily decode the data using the identity matrix. To sum it up, you only need the admin login and password, encryption algorithm and identity matrix. Where can you obtain this? Well, Smartmatic knows all this but I don't believe Smartmatic will divulge this but wait... is it Smartmatic who is developing this program? No. The programmers of Smartmatic did. Do you know where they are? I'm sure no. But if you want to know how to break the system, you must pirate the programmers in Smartmatic. It is impossible to bribe this people but for a huge amount, it is possible. If 100 politicians will contribute 10 million each, that would be 1 billion pesos or 21 million dollars. For 10 programmers who core in developing the applications that would be 2 million dollars each. Is it huge enough? Yes of course! That's a lot mo money!
To safeguard the system from this possibilities, Smartmaticshould inform the Philippine government on how they prevent the leak of these keys.
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