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cide to purchase and apply the voting
system.
If this could be applied in countries
such as Mongolia and the Philippines, I
assume that it would not be a problem
to apply it in countries such as Serbia
and Macedonia. Are there special pre-
requisites that are difficult to realize?
Still, if someone wants The voting process is quite a se- Mr. Obradovic: I think that in the
to organize elections rious operation in every country. In case of Macedonia and of Serbia, as
where everyone can USA there is a rigorous certification well as many other countries, primar-
vote with complete for each product which is being used ily it is necessary to change the elec-
security, in complete for voting. What does this certification tion law. Here primarily I think of a
privacy and make process look like? change of the law in terms of the fact
everything more that digital systems can be used for
transparent, than a Mr. Obradovic: After the problems counting votes. Another problem is
decision will be made to at the elections in Florida in 2000, the the electoral roll which I can also say,
introduce such systems USA introduced a process of testing does not always comply with reality.
and certification of the voting equip- As a company, we have the technol-
ment. In USA there are three accredit- ogy and the experience to help in every
ed laboratories that test every compo- process of modernization of the elec-
nent of the system in detail, we well as toral law. Today such systems are sig-
the appropriate documentation. It is a nificantly more accessible than before
matter of relatively long and expensive and they offer much more possibili-
process, however today it is impossible ties. Numerous manual operations are
to use a system that is not certified. We eliminated both in the preparation of
are one of the rare companies with a the elections, as well as in the count-
certification at federal level according ing of votes. Costs are reduced because
to the latest standards. The meaning one should have in mind that the pur-
of this process is also shown by the chased system can be used for many
fact that other countries accept this years. The voting process is easier and
certificate as relevant when they de- more intuitive for the very voters. Still,
if someone wants to organize elections
where everyone can vote with com-
plete security, in complete privacy and
make everything more transparent,
than a decision will be made to intro-
duce such systems.
Then it remains for the organizers
of elections in these areas to decide
whether they want to raise the qual-
ity of the voting process and invest for
this purpose. I thank you for this in-
terview.
Mr. Obradovic: Thank you for the
initiative to bring such a topic closer
to the readers.
Zoran Jovanovski
34 May 2016
