[Ubuntu-eg] open source voting system for egyptian election

Wed Dec 7 10:42:55 UTC 2011

Look guys if @Ashraf says it's secure & reliable. We can manage your
graduation project with @Processing Qbits graduation project and make it
for the elections of localities & by the beta system for the elections.
We've the support of Ahmed Mekkawy & others

On 7 December 2011 03:22, Ashraf Bendary <ash_bendary at yahoo.com> wrote:

> sorry mohamed i disagree with u there is alot of ways to make it secure
> more than the paper and it was already in study when essam sharf was the
> prime minister this topic was my group graduate project in the post
> graduate in faculty of computer since of Ain shams university and believe
> me when i say there is allot of ways to apply it with maximum securty even
> more than the paper that need to transfer in the street and count by human
>
>
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>
> Ashraf Bendary
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> *From:* Mohammad AbuShady <coalwater5 at gmail.com>
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> *To:* Ubuntu Egypt LoCo Team <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 6, 2011 10:12 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Ubuntu-eg] open source voting system for egyptian election
>
> I agree with ahmed toulan about something, this system can't be applied at
> least not soon because of the corruption in our political system,
> implementing such methods would give people who seek power an easy way to
> gaining it, no paper needed no nothing, just altering/adding few records in
> a data base would do the trick, of course they'll need to get access
> through the person who has it but I believe it won't be that hard.
> Right now I'd stick with the supervised terminals located in certain
> places but also keep the old paper and ink, just to have some thing to
> verify with and probably one or two more things to keep people from voting
> for other people, at the beginning we'll just make it faster to determine
> the winning people, but when things get stable we can use more features,
> like real time statistics and such, (remember that firefox download counter
> for firefox 4?)
> On Dec 6, 2011 9:48 AM, "Processing Qbits" <processingqbits at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> My graduation project is E-Voting over the internet and mobile....we're
> currently researching different technologies for connections, load
> balancing and security techniques...for reliability, security, efficiency
> and effectiveness....and it will include terminals for those who do not
> have internet/mobile access or those who can not read/write and we might
> introduce methods for the disabled
>
> Estonia had internet evoting since 2009 and it issued mobile evoting this
> year....the US tested an internet evoting system on a small scale and it
> proved reliable but it was discontinued due to political/military reasons
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>
> According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting:
> In general, two main types of e-Voting can be identified:<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting#cite_note-0><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting#cite_note-Zissis.26Lekkas-1>
>
>    - e-voting which is physically supervised by representatives of
>    governmental or independent electoral authorities (e.g. electronic voting
>    machines located at polling stations);
>    - remote e-Voting where voting is performed within the voter's sole
>    influence, and is not physically supervised by representatives of
>    governmental authorities (e.g. voting from one's personal computer,mobile
>    phone,television via the internet (i-voting).
>
> IMO It's a little bit hard to expect remote e-voting at our current state.
> Since it won't be remote we won't reach the 100% Khaled expects.
> Also, we should expect a lot of fraud especially that those who will
> supervise the whole process are the ones we don't trust. And it will be
> really hard to trace..
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