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Originally Posted by WhamBam
Is there some confusion here? 
I don't think the article talks about Mega computer and hacking. It talks about poll rigging the old fashined way - by ballot paper stamping. |
Ah you missed that little gem of an accusation.
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Sen. Latif Khosa, who helped put the report together, accused the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence of operating a rigging cell from a safe house in the capital, Islamabad. The goal, he said, is to change voting results electronically on election day.
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"The ISI has set up a mega-computer system where they can hack any computer in Pakistan and connect with the Election Commission," he said.
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Sources: Bhutto was to give U.S. lawmakers vote-rigging report - CNN.com
With respect to Ballot paper stamping, if the political agents appointed by the respective parties are going to observe all the ballot boxes, before voting is to begin and after, and be present while counting takes place, does that not minimize the threat of rigging by such means? Part of the electoral reforms were the use of transparent ballot boxes, primarily imported from China I believe, that would eliminate to some extent the impression that the boxes arrived "stuffed", and during videos of the rioting you could see staff moving them around (looked like giant plastic food tubs to me).
Srirangan:
That was before the electoral reforms adopted at the insistence of BB and the PPP.