e-Choices cost 140,000 PLN and not durable. Poles abroad could not register for the second round
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The next episode of the soap opera with the title "e-there State". The e-Choices page belonging to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has fallen. And it fell when Poles abroad tried to register to participate in the presidential election.
Polish e-administration is tango down again! This time, tens of thousands of volunteers were enough to vote in the presidential election to break it down. Only until yesterday until midnight Poles abroad could add willingness to participate in the second round of presidential elections. Only an hour before the end of registration, the special eWybory system from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stopped working. And this is a new art ordered barely a year and a half ago by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Only until yesterday until midnight, those willing to take part in the second round of elections, who did not feel such a need in the first round, could sign up to the list of voters online at https://ift.tt/1nZObFv . However, the page has stopped working on the last straight. Most likely, the system could not withstand the increased interest. Only in Great Britain yesterday more than 50,000 people. As calculated by Jakub Krupa, a former PAP correspondent in Great Britain, before the breakdown could be added almost 100 thousand. European voters.
I counted the countries in which registration closed during the eWery election:
Before 11pm, however, the electoral application stopped working. Everything seems to indicate that it was not adapted to handle such a large number of interested parties.
What’s more, it turned out that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not paid for this site’s security certificate for 120 days, although very sensitive citizens’ data are processed through it.
Meanwhile, in the east – the eWybory platform, used for such a triviality as the election of the president of the country … has not been HTTPS certified for 4 months. Hey @MSZ_RP , are you making things easier for your hacker colleagues, commissioned from Nowogrodzka, have you missed this detail? pic.twitter.com/bmi5idadkQ
– Maciej Kopiec (@KopiecMaciej) June 29, 2020
The situation is bizarre on several levels. First of all, the eWybory system is a fresh matter. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced an offer inquiry for the development of this system barely a year and a half ago, in January 2019. The expansion and improvement of the application’s work were planned before last year’s parliamentary elections and those to the European Parliament.
But only the current presidential election turned out to be a real test for this e-system. First, they take place during a pandemic, when in many countries only postal voting is possible. Secondly, the Duda-Trzaskowski duel raises a lot of emotions. PO candidate does not hide that he strongly counts on the votes of the Polish diaspora and from the morning motivated Poles abroad to register in elections. As a result, the number of voters is record-breaking. In the USA, in the first round, 33 827 people were registered on the electoral roll. This is an increase of 52 percent relative to the first round of elections in 2015. In Great Britain, 129,331 people were registered in the electoral roll before the first round. During the first round of presidential elections in 2015, the number was 73 870. By the second round of this year, over 180 thousand had been saved. Poles living in Great Britain.
Maybe by email?
Despite the expansion of the system, the application for remote signing in to the registry turned out to be too weak to withstand those tens of thousands of applications that arrived in one day. An hour and a half before the end of registration, the system unexpectedly collapsed.
So maybe the maximum amount of PLN 140,000 offered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs PLN to improve the system was too much saving. Especially that there were problems with the counting of Polonia votes in the first round. Although the urns have long been closed, there were no official results from Great Britain for over 30 hours.
Late in the evening, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Twitter tried to save the situation and reminded that "voters who want to take part in the second round of voting for the election of the President of the Republic of Poland, and who are not included in the list for the first round of voting, may also submit their notification by email."
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Voters who want to take part in the second round of voting for the election of the President of the Republic of Poland, and who are not included in the list for the first round of voting, may also submit their application by e-mail.
The email address of the relevant facility can be found at https://t.co/xfdSoBvlGX pic.twitter.com/zGPEbtupiz
– Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland @ (@MSZ_RP) June 29, 2020
We are waiting for responses from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the reasons for the failure, about who performed the new version of the eWybory application for the ministry and whether it is planned to extend the voter registration process.
The only comforting thing is that despite the repeated voices of politicians encouraging to build a full e-voting system, no one took it seriously. Since we have a problem with the register itself for several hundred thousand voters, a complicated voting system for almost 30 million people would only cause problems.
e-Choices cost 140,000 PLN and not durable. Poles abroad could not register for the second round
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