In a Swiss magazine, a brief description of electronic voting is explained which was instituted in order to encourage the Swiss people wherever they are in the world to vote during elections. So all voters need only to open a computer and follow the steps mentioned below. This particular method of e-voting would be applicable to all the Overseas Filipino Migrant Professionals and Workers found in the different countries who would be voting in 2010. However, the date of the magazine is 2003 and many changes could have been made already to provide more measures to keeping the vote safe from hackers. Due to pressures of time, we are not able to update news about this. However here is how the safeguarded e-vote operates:
Every voter receives a personal 16-digit code along with documents for voting.
Any hacker without an ID number would have a one in 5 billion chances of succeeding.
Then another form appears on screen. The voter enters his/her date of birth, where a secret 4-digit code appears in an area in the voting documents.
Then upon entering the voter's domicile the ballot appears and the voter can fill it out.
Vote counters and party representatives are also assigned several passwords for accessing the virtual ballot box of e-votes.
- Geneva City Chancellery
Swiss Review #2, April 2003
-Reported by Wilhelmina S. Orozco
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