Comelec partner vows fraud-free voting

A SOFTWARE company and the Commission on Elections have adopted adequate security measures to prevent hackers from destroying the system of Internet voting, which will be tested in Singapore.

At a forum, Pere Valles, the chief executive of Scytl, gave the assurance that electronic voting can be as secure as the traditional paper-based voting.

?Or even, in many cases, more secure [than the paper-based],? he said.

At least 20,000 Filipino workers in Singapore will be the first to try Internet voting for the May elections.

Scytl has developed special cryptographic protocols to provide the Internet voting with the highest standards of security, privacy and trust.

?We don?t want to give too much information to the public to deter hackers,? he said.