Zim inventor finds a way to hold fraud-free elections

R>He explained: SEEV (sms external encrypted voting) is a new innovative concept which uses existing technologies (mobile phone sms and TAN-envelopes) in conjunction with an external international processing centre to ensure that phantom voters, ballot-box stuffing, count fraud etc are a thing of the past. And the cost of this electronic voting is potentially less than present-day paper voting systems. SEEV could hold its first election within six months of project go-ahead.
Weir said the system did not mean that one had to own a mobile phone in order to vote – you only need access to one.
His plan is for all votes to be processed for all participating countries by a Global Electoral Commission data centre sited in Norway or Sweden; these countries are suited because they have a reputation for integrity and impartiality.
“The key to the process is the secret sealed envelopes with secret numbers and codes inside which enable the voter to vote with no-one (including KGB, CIA, CIO and all these people) ever being able to tell which way he or she voted; only the centre in Norway will know, and they will destroy that evidence some months after voting is completed,” said Weir.
In order to assure the voter that his or her vote was counted, some minutes after sending the voting sms, a confirmation reply sms is received on the same phone – this should match another line of data on your secret envelope, and is your guarantee that your sms got all the way to Norway and was processed correctly. Once again this confirmation sms can never in 1000 years be de-encrypted by domestic or foreign intelligence services.
“The system will need extensive voter education to enable everyone in the rural areas to vote, and also additional mobile phone masts will have to be installed. Also on the week of voting, NGO’s will have to arrive in the rural areas with mobile phones which voters can use to vote using their secret envelopes. Voting is not a trivial matter and extensive resources will have to be devoted to ensuring that a real election is held. But the dividend is that in many countries throughout the 3rd world, the people will finally know that count fraud by the sitting government has been rendered impossible. This will herald a new era of democracy, the elimination of corruption, and an economic and social renaissance,” said Weir. – Own correspondent. More detail on SEEV at http://www.cd3wd.com/SEEV/