A Discussion with a Senior

This is a chat(on gtalk) we had with one of our seniors in college, on MOV. He is Shiv Anand Thakur a passout from AIT,Pune, Computer Engg. and is currently working in Infosys. This is what we discussed about MOV...

me: wat do u think??

Shiv: its cool...the idea

me: thnx

Shiv: bt then the poor voterturn out is the biggest problem the world is facing??

u'll be able to defend this??

me: ya...wat u hav to realise is that the middle class virtually absent from the voting scene and they are the ones with the education to take balanced decisions

if we can somehow involve them...then we can get better results on anyday of the week and twice on sunday

Shiv: agreed.......bt then aren't they matured enuf to think over this...

if the whole educaion that they have is not able to take them to the polling booth...

me: well thats y we are takin the polling booth to them

Shiv: there must be something fundamentally wrong with the system itself

ain't it?

me: no

not really

ppl are too engrosed in just one aspect of the system

so they are really not even thnking about the other aspect

Shiv: hmm...

me: with the pressure of doing well, everything in life takes a back seat

Shiv: security aspect n fake voting......system hacks...basically prepare the security scenario well

coz it is vulnerable to misuse

me: it is...but the server can be made hack proof

i think it can

voter id can be worked on

Shiv: bots can be programmed by some candidate to increase the hit count

me: all these are excuses

if we can take care of those two things then the hacker will have to change the votes of individual voters

something that is difficult to pull off in large numbers

and thus difficult to effect results effect results.

Shiv: u've to be prepared

me: ya thats why we are reviewing the system everyday

wat do u think??

Shiv: it is nice...its different...n if u can defend it, it stands a really good chance

me: thnx!!