An uncanny election results transmission system (ERTS) move is underway. I just read a www.peacefmonline.com headline: ‘EC eTransmission Was Proposed By NPP – NDC Rebuts.’
That’s another curious act of congress the ‘spokesgroup’ for an EC. Indeed, it has been so forever. When Osono proposes positive development action, congress steals power, steals the idea and messes up disposing with it. Osono may even begin implementation, Yaanom congress will still reinvent its bastardisation.
Many, many times it has happened in the motherland. Over the last eight years, we have witnessed and experienced idea stealth, the plagiarised ending up implemented with debauchery in rotten corruption. Check out the MMT for free schoolchildren ride; school feeding (caterers are being levied for congress election war chest tax right now); NHIS jobs for the boys and girls; Northern Development Fund as decayed SADA. One can go on and on.
Yes, DI mooted e-voting (concatenation of electronic registration, verification, casting the vote, counting and tallying). With that, the only manual thing would be announcing the results which would be published on the website.
The proposal was to move the motherland into the digital realm with her election processes. Congress had resisted because they hadn’t figured out software manipulation to steal.
Now, their digi-guru has taught them how easy it is to steal with an election STL formula. Congresspeople do regret the initial resistance. Now, they are ready to e-e-steal. Their digi-guru has briefed them about how easy it is. So now they are swearing they are only doing it to please the Osono people.
My compatriots, I don’t believe in motherland ERTS. Votes will be worthless when e-transmitted. The transmitted will not be a count of your vote. Results collectively produced and published would have been a figment of election officials’ imagination. If we would advance to join election digitised motherlands, it wouldn’t be under the supervision of a biased EC bent on doing the will of one group against all others.
This is a quote from those who want to introduce ERTS for the 2016 elections:
‘He added that results transmitted through the ERTS would remain provisional and does [sic.] not replace the manual collation process which requires agents of political parties to attest to the accuracy of results before declaration by presiding officers.’
I will say that is still manual counting; so don’t waste money to procure ERTS. Of course, there is a hidden agenda. One of the principal ingredients of free and especially fair election is transparency. Hidden agendas are translucent. They are without the key requirement of an election process to be trustworthy. It’s, so far, missing from the EC ERTS moves.
CONGRESS of many ways and varied ways and means has detected a huge loophole to exploit ERTS. Mark you me, they are going to push to get what they want. That is unless the fair-minded in the motherland mobilise and counter to pull back the congress push.
Today, they will tell you they will wait for manual count. Election day, they will say we have the results so why wait. We will declare so you go to court if you don’t like that. I don’t think Osono fancies that.
Many in the motherland are aware of the devil in ERTS to be weary. It is an epitome of translucency. With its garbage in garbage out button, few are they who want votes counted for whom the ballots are meant for.
It cannot be Mars all of a sudden. The election is here on motherland earth and no ERTS would be fair election. I may be a technophobe. However, human elements of the congress type readily and willingly cheated their fellow humans of the motherland with STL technology in 2012.
Let civil society mobilise to cure an ERTS disease. Peace, Christian, Muslim and all the other councils plus NMC, arise and mobilise, with representation at all 29,000 polling stations. That should provide parallel results determination (not declaration) strategy.
The alternate results will not be announced ahead of the EC’s. It will serve as an accurate verifier purpose.
All things human made for good is also made for bad. ERTS was made to accurately fast-track election results publishing in a timely manner. People don’t have to wait endlessly over who’s won and who’s lost an election. Despite ERTS being made for good, congress, who live by bad, need checking from misusing it.
Stolen election is guaranteed with an ERTS implementation in 2016 without alternate accurate handmade results.
With congress, push and pull must intersect negatively with good and bad. When progress is being pushed for good, congress pulls back into retrogress. When it’s good to pull, congresspeople push for retrogress. When live goat destroys dead goat posters, it’s time for goat dead for real; e-transmission notwithstanding.
By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh