Hello Fellow Jamaicans.
Today is Thursday February 25th 2016,
Election Day, the day that Jamaica chooses who will rule us for the next five
(5) years as noted in the article “SHOWDOWN!
Candidates Hours Away From Finish Line”, published Thursday February 25,
2016 by Gary Spaulding, The Jamaica
Gleaner.
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The Jamaica Gleaner is so excited, they’ve dropped
their paywall as per this tweet on the Jamaica Gleaner Twitter feed @JamaicaGleaner:
No Paywall: We are giving you free access to all content on our website https://t.co/ZqbMy5FPHo until February 26, 2016. #JaVotes2016— Jamaica Gleaner (@JamaicaGleaner) February 25, 2016
Electoral Commission of Jamaica, Dorothy
Pine-McLarty has confirmed that Polling stations are stocked with ballots and
Election day Workers ready to fulfill their duty as indicated in the article “#JaVotes2016:
Polling Stations Open Across Jamaica”, Published Thursday February 25, 2016, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Voting runs from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and has already
started in earnest as noted in the article “PHOTOS:
Voters Out In All Parishes”, published Thursday February 25, 2016, The Jamaica Gleaner. The rules are as
clear as the Twitter post on Jamaica
Gleaner Twitter feed @JamaicaGleaner below.
IMAGE: Electoral Commission publishes Election Day RULES. #JaVotes2016 pic.twitter.com/VdqHM9c5Pn— Jamaica Gleaner (@JamaicaGleaner) February 24, 2016
There is even a Jamaica Gleaner's
Interactive Election Maps that shows you the seat won by either party. So
given all this information, who will win the Jamaica General Election 2016?
Electoral
Office of Jamaica and EVIBIS - How to eliminate Voter Fraud for smartphone and
HDTV Voting in 2021
As can be expected, everybody is as nervous as hell,
as this General Election look very close given all that has happened over the
past five years from 2011 to 2016.
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Of interest to me as a Telecoms Researcher is the
planned use of EVIBIS (Electronic Voter Identification and Ballot Issuing
System) as reported in the article “Only
seven constituencies to use voter ID machines”, published Thursday,
February 25, 2016 BY BALFORD HENRY, The
Jamaica Gleaner.
The Voter ID machines will be used in the following
seven (7) constituencies:
1. St
Andrew West Central
2. Kingston
Central
3. Kingston
Eastern and Port Royal
4. St
Andrew Western
5. St
Andrew South Eastern
6. St
Andrew Eastern
7. St
Catherine Eastern
Introduced by the EOJ in 2007, it's finally making
its grand debut in the 2016 General Election with the following objectives:
1. Prevent
impersonation of an elector
2. Eliminate
multiple voting by persons
3. Eliminate
the use of unauthenticated ballots
4. Reduce
Voter ballot spoilage
Most of these constituencies using EVIBIS are in
Kingston and St. Andrew, with only one in the rural areas, St Catherine
Eastern. They have the advantage of being able to reduce voter fraud and
speeding up the voting process by forcing the voter to identify themselves
using their voter ID.
This was sorely needed, given that some 176,374 New
voters, mostly below the age of twenty five (25) are among the 1,824,410
enumerate to vote in the General Elections as pointed out in my blog article
entitled “How
to Vote and Who to Vote for in Jamaica's General Election 2016”.
Numbers To Watch In The 2016 Election #JaVotes2016https://t.co/iOYpJ6UNM1 pic.twitter.com/0LXK6ZmvJx— diGJamaica (@diGJamaica) February 18, 2016
The last time we went to the polls on the 29
December 2011 in Jamaica the JLP (Jamaica Labour Party), led by Andrew Holness
lost to the PNP (People's National Party) led by Portia Simpson-Miller as
reported in the article “BLOWOUT: PNP
41 – JLP 22”, published Friday December 30, 2011, The Jamaica Gleaner.
The PNP won 42 of the 63 seats, ensuring a
two-thirds majority without electronic Voting, so there may have been a lot of
rigged voting. Hopefully in the next election, all Constituencies especially in
the Rural areas, will have Electronic Voting.
With 5G launching globally and 4G LTE and FTTH in
Jamaica from FLOW Jamaica and Digicel Jamaica's Digicel Play as predicted in my blog article
entitled “Why
FLOW Jamaica's 4G LTE Upgrade to counter Digicel Play needs islandwide LTE,
VDSL and DOCSIS 3.1”.
This may open up the possibility of voting via
smartphones, Desktop computers and even HDTV with HD Cameras using Samsung’s
SmartThings Platform as described in my Geezam
blog article entitled “How
Samsung’s SmartThings Platform makes CES 2016 SUHD TV’s IoT Ready” in the
year 2021.
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