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NOILE TEHNOLOGII ÎN FORMAREA ŞI UTILIZAREA LISTELOR ELECTORALE. EVOLUŢII ŞI PERSPECTIVE
Today’s topic is voter registration and many governments and central electoral
commissions around the world use the biometric system. This is a unique system
that ensures that a vote is cast only once, and it is very important that, thanks to
biometric solutions, the voter can be identified accurately and we can create the
register of voters to verify all voters during the electoral process.
What are the stages of a typical electronic voting process The first step may be
voter authentication through many means and solutions. What is used in most
developed countries are digital certificates, the most popular being electronic
ID cards, smart banking cards and, of course, the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).
Public Key Infrastructure is the most important process in the authentication of
voters. There is another possibility for voter authentication, such as specific identification
of voters that can be provided to voters in several ways: by mail, email,
phone cards and SMS. Of course, the most important thing is security; these data
should be delivered to the proper voter. Other authentication mechanisms are
also available, but this certainly depends on the client.
The second important step of the electronic process is creating an electoral council
and receiving by each member a private key to have access to all digital votes.
It is very important that at the end of the electoral process the members of the
CEC or central body can open the votes and check the voting results. As already
mentioned, the voting process can be done in several ways, for example using
smart cards or optical scans. People in some countries prefer paper ballots, and
as already mentioned, older people are not familiar with electronic solutions.
But I could exchange experiences and confirm that older people liked the touch
screen method, they understood that the process is very easy and well developed
for these categories of people. After the voting process, voters can receive a confirmation
that their votes were counted.
After the voting is closed, the committee reconstructs the private keys and opens
the digital ballots, after which the results and the confirmations are published
and all voters can verify if their votes were counted. If we talk about electoral
modernization, both now and in the future, it is important not to forget about
people with disabilities. Some experience has been gained worldwide, in particular
governments and electoral commissions are thinking of ways to help persons
with disabilities. These are not only people with vision or hearing disabilities, but
also people who cannot come to polling stations and many others; they are taken
into account when we talk about modernizing the electoral process. Many people