There is hardly a day going past where people haven't complained about Australia Post's IT systems being up shit creek.
So why is the issue of giving the job of E voting to Farhour and the rest of the clowns still an issue.
They are even WORSE than the department that did the census.
http://www.themandarin.com.au/77335-censusfail-forgiven-australians-expect-evoting-as-soon-as-2019/
An extract:
Australia Post has made a play for a majority slice of future digital elections in a new white paper released Friday.
Elections are perhaps the most notable example of a government digital transformation where the public appreciates the risks more than the benefits. Despite this obstacle, there is overwhelming support and expectation for eVoting sooner rather than later, according to a new survey commissioned by Australia Post.
And:
Australia Post will be competing, or perhaps collaborating, with both the Digital Transformation Agency and myGov for ownership of the digital identity management platform which would allow eVoting to move beyond physical kiosks. It’s the key technology where a multitude of issues, both social and administrative, have thus far frustrated government digital transformation efforts.
Beyond the concern about privacy of one’s anonymous vote, the identity verification system will also need to ensure the integrity of electoral roll, that electors are eligible to vote, and they only cast one vote in the correct electorate.
Australia Post says it is already working on plans for an open digital identity ecosystem that could be used for this purpose — based on a single digital identity credential verified through biometric technology, such as a face scan.
And onto this issue:
Australia Post - and how they handle everything, from the swindling CEO, to the barefaced theft and shitting in customers faces, including the failing delivery system with articles taking weeks instead of days, the almost total lack of honest, reliable and ethical customer service, And their IT systems, the phones, the web site, the user interfaces to log in with, almost always broken.....
There is NO way in the world that Australia Post should even get the contract to shovel shit, much less running the E-voting.
And this is Australia Posts's own scam of a write up about it's own fucking capacity to get the contract and run it....
Duh! Yeah reading up on all the customer complaints on their Face Book Page, and the Product Review site, and how they have internally dealt with the issues, should be the bench mark for deciding upon - not this cleverly wrapped up packet of weasel words.
And I doubt Sara Howard is a genuinely independent "business Journalist", since she is writing her crap up on the Australia Post Website, presumably as someone who works in and for Australia Post - which is hardly a neutral or objective position to take.
Kind of like Goebells being the minister for propoganda, while an active member of the Nazi party.
Is Australia ready for eVoting?
When the Australian Government’s census website suffered a denial-of-service attack in August 2016, the incident threatened to subject any future online government service to public distrust.
Yet a survey commissioned by Australia Post just a few weeks later found that 73 per cent of Australians are keen for an online voting system with 26 per cent expecting to be able to cast their votes online by the 2019 federal election . Almost half (47 per cent) are surprised that eVoting isn’t already available.
We’re frustrated by queues and delayed results
One thousand eligible Australian voters were asked about their experience voting in the July 2016 federal election. While they generally trust the current paper ballot system to provide results, there are complaints about the time it takes to vote with 47 per cent rating the queuing time as ‘poor’ and more than 20 per cent saying they waited for over 20 minutes.
Almost half of voters are also dissatisfied with how long it took to declare a result. Australians are also finding it less convenient to get to a polling booth on election day. 17 per cent chose to vote early at an early voting centre while 14 per cent opted for postal voting. Younger professionals are more likely to vote early, and older professionals and retirees make up the largest proportion of postal voters.
We want to cast our vote online at home, or at an electronic polling booth
eVoting can be made available in various forms, so the survey asked voters whether they would be more likely to vote using a touch screen in a polling booth or on their own device at home.
Over 75 per cent – which included 80 per cent of younger voters - said they would be likely to use either method. There was a slight preference for using a touch screen in a polling booth.
Those who chose touch screen as their preference cited ‘speed of result’ as their main reason, followed by ‘quicker to vote’ and ‘less environmental impact’.
Those who stated a preference for voting on their own device emphasised the flexibility of choosing when and where they voted. 86 per cent of older professionals, 87 per cent of younger families and 81 per cent of younger professionals said they’d vote using their own device.
One enthusiastic respondent said, “It would be an awesome idea! It's so much easier to vote online because voting with young children, illness, disability, or anything that would prevent you from voting wouldn't matter.”
The vast majority of voters believe a touch screen would also provide a quicker result.
So who wants to vote online?
Young people (aged 18-25) and older professionals (over 40 with an income over $150,000) are the most in favour of eVoting.
Retirees are less likely to expect it would be available in the near future. However, two-thirds of retirees said they would still be likely to use either a touch screen in a polling booth or a device at home.
In general, eVoters are more likely to be younger, earning a higher income, in full-time employment or studying, and living in a major city.
We still want the choice of a paper ballot
However, we’re still not ready to get rid of paper ballots entirely. Almost three-quarters of those surveyed said voters should still have the choice to vote in-person. Also stay-at-home parents are more likely to prefer traditional voting methods, and only 21 per cent of retirees are comfortable with eVoting being their only option.
This is not surprising as research also suggests that when it comes to government services, Australians still expect a choice of in-person and digital touchpoints.
Among those who said they probably or definitely would not use eVoting, 28 per cent cited security concerns (including fear of cyber attack) as the main issue. 23 per cent said they didn’t trust their details would be kept private and 19 per cent have concerns about the anonymity of their vote.
The census experience was also cited as evidence that the government’s system issues would need to be addressed.
“The recent census showed that the knowledge isn't there to protect the system, and things will be underestimated again,” said a traditional voter.
We could save more than time
Consumer preferences are clearly in favour of eVoting, as long as traditional voting options remain. But there are other benefits worth considering.
Australia Post’s analysis indicates that if elections are conducted completely online, there is potential to save tens of millions of dollars per year. This includes local, state and federal level elections, and both polling and electronic counting.
Other benefits of eVoting include quicker and potentially more accurate election results, and the elimination of human error or ‘misplaced’ ballots.
The fact that a significant majority of Australians want and expect eVoting indicates that the journey of change may not be as challenging as the census experience would have us believe.
However, it’s also clear that a great deal of work still needs to be done to create the capabilities and infrastructure required for a secure, anonymous and reliable eVoting platform.
To find out more about our research into eVoting, read our insights paper: A new way to have our say: Australia's roadmap to eVoting.
This article is provided for general information purposes only and is not intended to be specific advice.
A new way to have our say
Despite advances in digital technology, Australians still vote on a paper ballot. Yet by the next federal election, 73 per cent of voters expect to be able to vote online.
Faster election results, greater convenience and accessibility, and significant cost savings are the main drivers of this expectation.
Our insights paper, A new way to have our say: Australia’s roadmap to eVoting, discusses the implications of our research findings and outlines a roadmap towards a secure, trusted eVoting platform. It also explores:
- The essential elements of an election management platform
- The benefits of eVoting – from enrolment to casting and counting votes
- What we can learn from trials within Australia and overseas, including the 2016 Census
- How existing technology can mitigate the risks of cyber-attacks and privacy breaches
Download our insights paper now.
An extract from the paper:
"The cost of holding elections has also risen steadily over the years, with the 2016 federal election estimated to have cost taxpayers at least $227 million, or around $15 per voter."
Well with Australia Posts abysmal management and postal system, here are 10 of my own questions:
In the last 10 years, how much has the cost of sending articles by Australia Post risen - in comparison to the consumer price index? Or in simpler terms, if it cost say $100 back 10 years ago, how much has it risen by since? $350? $450? - as an estimate?
With the cost of using Australia Post, how many small business's have they closed down?, because the cost of postage, the sellers cannot compete with imports, and indeed, it costs more to send things from one suburb to the next, as it does to get it sent from the other side of the world to here.
How much does it cost each and every consumer, on average, for every trip to the post office, when they get carded - in terms of time ($$$), fares, fuel, etc., etc., etc...
How much time do consumers have to spend every time, they get fucked around by Australia Post?
How much does it cost consumers and business's every time a parcel gets stolen or delayed - like when the 3 day express postage takes 3 weeks?
How much does it cost each and every customer, each and every time, when waiting an hour or more on hold, when calling up Australia Post?
How much is the value of all the stuff that gets stolen by Australia Post?
And how much does it cost to have to repeatedly ring in and spend your valuable time, just to chase up what they ought to be doing, like investigating the issues, you raise, and instead, they never make call backs, and after months of bullshit, they do nothing, deliberately close the file - and say, "Tough shit, the case is closed, can't do nothing, bye!"
Etc.,
So how come the management of Australia Post - the worlds greatest time waster and cost inflator, reckons IF they can get the contract, for this E-Voting bullshit, that the people of Australia are going to get anything other than MORE super expensive, incompetently run bullshit - aside from the money grubbing arseholes who incompetently manage this fiasco, doing nothing more than sucking the money from the tax payers, to line their own pockets with?
"Australia Post’s cyber security Operations Centre monitors all our applications and infrastructure – and has, as yet, not had a significant data breach."
I call bullshit on that - define "significant" for one thing, and then add on how the management of Australia Post lie about everything, from the FOI applications made about how many customer complaints they receive, to covering up the CEO's wage, to deleting peoples complaints about their shit being stolen - without investigating them.
Add on the fact that Australia Post's IT systems are so fucking up shit creek, that the websites and systems are fucking up and failing almost on a daily basis.
I mean people are even complaining that you can't even log in, to register a complaint about the people in Australia Post stealing your shit.... Because the fucking website is broken.
"We have already invested in digital identity, payment and information management services – because we know that delivering secure, future-proof solutions will require a robust framework and infrastructure.
We also understand the capabilities needed for bringing a community along a journey of change."
Well they can't even deliver the post reliably, if at all now. The websites are almost always up shit creek and broken. And there is a HUGE difference between having failed to "deliver" - in the past to present tense, and "delivering" - which is a presumptive assumption, with falls in line with, "We intend to deliver a truck load of fresh unicorn shit from Mount Olympus every Monday".
So if they can't even get a letter from one suburb to the next in under 3 weeks, the express deliveries take longer than the standard mail, and there is a very good chance that you will be carded, instead of delivered, that is if it doesn't get stolen, and the complaints are closed and deleted instead of getting acted upon, and you can't log a complaint by the the Australia Post website - because it's always fucking broken - well they are bringing the community along a journey of change.
We are all being taken for a ride while Fahour and his team of money grubbing nit wits are all taking the country for a ride, while they drive Australia Post to insolvency.
Australia Post get the contract for running E-Voting in this country? - Fuck Off.
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