Planning of implementation E-Voting
in the General Elections
Using electronic
voting(e-voting) in the general elections is a controversial issue at the present
time. The eletronic voting has been became a discourse to do general elections
in Indonesia for along time.
If
the e-voting is seen deeply, the e-voting would be good sollution in the
problems of general elections.
E-voting from the word electronic voting that refers
to using information technology at the general elections. Another definition, electronic
voting(e-voting) is a method for taking
of voice and calculation of voice in the general elections by using electronic
sets.
This essay explores
some of the issues surronding around planning of electronic voting(e-voting) in
the general elections and considers arguments from both the electronic
voting(e-voting) and traditional voting. There are many people want to apply
electronic voting at the general elections in future because it has many
benefits in its the implementation, but in other side a lot of people defend
tradisional voting in the general elections.
In applying of the
e-voting in the general elections can decrease fee the elections. In Jembrana,
Bali has successed to do general elections with e-voting system for 54 chief of
citizens in 31 villages that have been started since last year half( Lubis,
2011 ). In the fact, doing of e-voting is compared with doing of traditional
voting can be thrifty fee more than 60 percent. For example, if the traditional
voting in the general elections uses fee around 13 billions, whereas the
e-voting will use fee only 3 billions.
The benefit of e-voting
in the general elections is to make citizens easily. Electors only need time
around six untill fourty five to decide their choise. If the e-voting is
compared with rhe traditional voting, the traditional will take the time is
four or five minutes. The tools of e-voting can be used some times. Also, the TPS(voting place) can accomodate one
thousand electors, whereas the traditional voting can accomodate only around
five hundreds untill seven hundreds electors every voting place.
Process of e-voting in
the general elections is far from dishonest. The e-voting is applied with using
KTP(Identification Card) that bases
chip is called e-KTP. Using of the e-KTP is to make elector impossible to do
election more than one.
However, implementation
of e-voting in the general elections has some high obstacles that must be faced
by government. One of the obstacle when government applies e-voting in the
general elections future is limited human resource. The limited human resource
that is meaned here are operator of e-voting and elector of e-voting. The
operators of e-voting in Indonesia are still very poor. We are less of
proffesor in technology. Beside that, the electors of e-voting are many people
do not understand about the technology. For example, the people do not know to
read or write something, whereas in the traditional of voting, the electors can
decide their choice, but in the e-voting electors can not decide their choice.
Not all areas in
Indonesia can implement electronic voting(e-voting) in the general elections. A
big difficult is faced by provinces of Indonesia that is still undevelop.
Infrastructures and suprastructures do not support in the e-voting. Big part of
the provinces are in East Indonesia. For example, province of Papua, province
of Nusa Tenggara Timur(NTT), province of North Maluku and many others. In the
provinces are there are many citizens do not understand about e-voting.
In conclusion,
implementation of electronic voting(e-voting) in the general elections has many
benefits, but it also has weakness in its implementation. The benefits are to decrease
fee the elections, to efficient the time at election time, and the process of
e-voting is far from dishonest. Regarding of the e-voting must be applied to
all areas in Indonesia. Therefore, the government of Indonesia has to improve
the infrastructures and supratructures of each in all provinces.
Refrence
Lubis,
M. ( 2011, Desember, 31 ). Implementasi e-voting di Indonesia. Antarnews.
Retrived From http://www.antaranews.com/berita/1267112374/jembrana-sukses-e-voting-54- kepala-dusun.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar