MIS- Reflection about Automated Election

Your thoughts on automated elections with reference to the current situation ... (1000 words)

Now days, technologies are very important to us people. These existing materials give us a gratification and satisfaction for our daily urgencies in everyday life.

As a correlation to this, regarding with the process of election last 2006, it causes such hustles, troubles and issues because of the lack assessments and some election frauds of the voters profile that brought many negative feedbacks about the voting results.

In addition, there are some possibilities of having an issue to manipulate peoples vote during election. From those who have the power or the capability considering that they are in the high position in office.

And for this coming election the government wanted to implement the new process of electoral system with the use and application of the highly evolve technologies. In consideration for the fast and well organize voting process.

This new proposed electoral system is precisely known as “Automated Election”. An Automated election system is type of a system that using appropriate technology for voting and electronic devices to count votes and canvass/consolidate results. The question now is, How secured the comelec voting system that they urge to use the automated election this 2010? I think the system can be hacked and manipulate the results by the computer experts. If the National Security systems of U.S have millions of attempts to hacked and control their system, how much more here in the Philippines.

There are also advantages and disadvantages of implementing the automated system for election. It provides efficient way for voting with less hassle. Voters cannot prolong the process of voting and lined up in a crowd. But a thought came across my mind. This could be the cause to worsen political situation. Possibilities for the candidates can hire a computer experts to hack the system and manipulate the entire votes. Unless if the system is fully secured.

But on the other hand, this new electoral system can also be cheated and deceit. We can’t be sure that about the confidentiality and security of our votes, so that we us a voter will can assure for the proper and official results of our votes without any doubt and suspicions about any foolish exploitation of our votes . Considering to the fact that this process of election can also be cheated and manipulate by others that is very disparate to win in for an office position.

By these views, I, as a student and to vote nationally for the first time, can state that whether it is manual or Automated election, the coming election will end up properly and fairly, if the existence of many election frauds will desist and hinder.