[kictanet] electronic results Referendum system..

Tue Aug 10 18:13:58 EAT 2010

Mr. Bowman,
Thanks for the document on e-voting.  It will help me with my paper, which I am putting together for my Parliamentary Committee to consider.  IIEC executives and I went to Nebraska early in the year to have a glance at the system they use in their regular voting process.  

As a hardware designer, I was very impressed with their card reader equipment robustness. We  shake - and - bake tested the equipment and did not notice any failure. I was convinced that Kenya as a country where contestants run a way with ballot papers, when they are losing the contest, would be a good candidate for electronic registration and voting.

I will avail the paper for scrutiny once it is released by parliament.

Hon. James Rege.

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On 6 Aug 2010, at 08:29, warigia bowman <warigia at gmail.com> wrote:

Wanakenya

I am very impressed by the IIEC and the handling of the referendum. Here is a good article on best practices for electronic voting. It builds from the american and australian experience.

http://www.softimp.com.au/Common%20content/White%20Papers/ETHICOMP_2005_Paper_MB.pdf

Rigia

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Harry Hare <harry at africanedevelopment.org> wrote:
Wash, the law has to be amended to remove legal exposures to e-Voting. Especially the confirmation of the result which has to be done on a “signed” Form 16A assuming physical nature of the form. I am not sure how this is affected by the new constitution. Having said that the IIEC has this on top of their agenda, so I suspect come 2012, e-Voting will be in place. I think its in order to congratulate the IIEC and especially their Tech team.

Harry 

On 8/5/10 1:21 PM, "Washington Odhiambo" <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Am not so sure that the system was a success. Over one third of polling stations failed to transmit electronically for various reasons including poor network (5,964 failed of a total of 20,750 polling stations). This would be chaos for a general election.

Being the first time it was used on a very large scale, almost a replica of a general election, I think they have done very well. They now have the information required to fine tune the system for the GE. 

I had expected to vote electronically, but it appears that only the registration was electronic, where I registered, but I am not complaining.

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