Bahrain e-voting Forum: Recommendations
1. It has been proven beyond any doubt that technology exist today to effectively enable and run e-voting.2. e-voting is doable and has many benefits some of which are enabling security, increasing accuracy, saving cost, enabling wider participation and catering for people with special needs like frequent travelers and disabled citizen.
3. Kingdom of Bahrain enjoys many edges over other countries for successful implementation of e-voting such as; solid communication and IT infrastructure and a highly educated population.
4. The success of e-voting depends on the involvement of all stakeholders (Public, Government, Societies, professional and political parties)
5. Governments have a vital and focal role to play in the e-voting process as; facilitators, enablers, promoters, legislators, organizers.
6. Increasing awareness, especially amongst public is one of the key success factors for e-voting to gain the trust of all concerned parties.
7. Kingdom of Bahrain’s smart Card project strongly supports e-voting due to its security and transparency features.
8. The Forum highly commends the initiative of the organizers of the upcoming Bahrain Youth Parliament of implementing e-voting technology.
9. The Forum highly commends Bahrain Government’s initiative of forming an advisory panel of experts form all relevant stakeholders including external relevant entities such as UN and independents to discuss and steer the e-voting initiative for Bahrain. This will also be a step in further establishing e-democracy.
10. Implementation of e-voting should not eliminate traditional methods of voting. The voters should have a choice of selecting more than one convenient method.
11. It’s recommended to have an independent auditing body that consists of members from Government, private sector, political parties, professional to increase trust and credibility of the entire process.
12. The forum shall state clearly that there is no 100% risk free system in either traditional or modern technology devised systems for voting. However, there are many proven ways and means of minimize such risks to an acceptable level.
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