SEÇS?S security is debatable

I have been a volunteer for Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond) Platform for the last four elections. I will be at the ballot box for the fifth time this Sunday. As a technology journalist, I had the opportunity to examine where fraud can be committed in Turkey's election system very closely. 

First of all, I should emphasize that there are electronic methods and non-electronic methods of rigging. Both types of rigging can be prevented. 

Many of the non-electronic methods are easy to think of. First of all, there were rumors that a party gave already-stamped votes to voters in exchange for money, if they brought back their unused ballots. This method goes back to the 18th century.

An alternative method is to miscount the votes when the ballots open. Finally, it is possible to replace ballot boxes at the District Election Board where the ballot boxes are taken after the elections are over.

These non-electronic type of election rigging, except for vote buying, can be stopped if there is one or more very dedicated person who is concerned about the safety of the voting procedures. Even if there is only one person who ensures that the votes are being counted properly and that the same box that left the room made its way to the District Election Board, where the boxes are sent, we can prevent major rigging. If we can check the number of legal ballots, we can stop non-electronic fraud almost completely. In the last elections, no one counted all the printed unused ballots. But Oy ve Ötesi did its best to make a difference. The same goes for all the political parties. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Republican People's Party (CHP) also tried to collect all the results from all the ballot boxes all over Turkey to make it a safer election. ...