What is now needed is to deploy this ubiquitious technology for the benefit
of the citizens especially in educating them on nationalistic values; on
what is at stake when they go to the polls. Most importantly the technology
can be used to eradicate the rigging of elections. The voting process
itself needs to be computerised; results ought to be made public
expeditiously at each polling station where they occur as a matter of
public record for everybody to see even before they are relayed to the
central electoral authority. There is now speech recognition technology and
other biometrics technology besides the old fashioned fingure technology.
All these new technologies can be creatively used to improve on the
integrity of the elections and to ultimately eliminate rigging.
What is now needed is to deploy this ubiquitious technology for the benefit of the citizens especially in educating them on nationalistic values; on what is at stake when they go to the polls. Most importantly the technology can be used to eradicate the rigging of elections. The voting process itself needs to be computerised; results ought to be made public expeditiously at each polling station where they occur as a matter of public record for everybody to see even before they are relayed to the central electoral authority. There is now speech recognition technology and other biometrics technology besides the old fashioned fingure technology. All these new technologies can be creatively used to improve on the integrity of the elections and to ultimately eliminate rigging.