Finally, a system to monitor elections

We are not bound to the non-transparent SEÇS?S anymore. We have ?Oy ve Ötesi,? (?Vote and Beyond?) and T3.  

The SEÇS?S is a computer aided voter roll system that was launched in 2004. The structure of SEÇS?S is one that is open to doubt. The system is such that after the votes are counted at voting centers, the protocols are submitted to district election boards. The data are entered into SEÇS?S monitors there. We do not know the process in between, from the moment these protocols depart the polling centers until the data are released through the computer. It is a dark part of the process.

There is no opportunity to monitor SEÇS?S. If the people at the computer stage tamper with the data, it might not be possible to detect this. 

In other words, the ?pillar of our democracy? has been placed on an unstable platform. 

Last year, it was ?Vote and Beyond? that trained thousands of volunteers to be observers at polling stations and organized them. It pointed out the urgency of a solution. 

Now, there is new software named T3. One of the founders of ?Vote and Beyond,? Sercan Çelebi, has helped develop it. ?During the election process, there is part of the election day when we are disconnected from the system. We cannot observe what is happening once the protocols are handed in. We figured out what we needed is an alternative program for SEÇS?S. One of our volunteers, Sina, developed it. Its name is T3. Our ?Vote and Beyond? volunteers will scan the signed protocols and enter the data to the system. We will process them in T3. Minimum three people independent of each other should enter the data for the T3 processes. Thus, we will be able to prevent our own negligence, manipulations and mistakes. 

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