Thursday, February 25, 2016

How Electoral Office of Jamaica's EVIBIS eliminates Voter Fraud for smartphone and HDTV Voting in 2021

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.
 

The Jamaica Gleaner is so excited, they’ve dropped their paywall as per this tweet on the Jamaica Gleaner Twitter feed @JamaicaGleaner:

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.
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.
 

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”.

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.

Here's the link:
Jamaica Gleaner's Interactive Election Maps


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