The outcome of the results of common polls were slowed down final night after Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) Consequence Switch System (RTS) crashed, raising eyebrows over the transparency of the elections.
The RTS is an internet software, which was developed to transfer the votes’ counting from polling stations to the election headquarters. But it surely went down after outcomes began pouring in from throughout the country apparently due to its poor design.
The MD of Rapid Compute, Cybernet's Data Center and Cloud arm, explains the ECP systems debacle last night pic.twitter.com/sLNpzkIxn6
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Because the technical glitches surfaced, the ECP has to shift to the manual system as it directed the polling employees to submit the results to district control rooms manually. The political events additionally began slamming the electoral physique for its failure and levelled allegations of poll rigging.
However, a managing director of an IT firm has come up with beautiful reasons behind the system crash. A social media person has shared the post of the MD of Rapid Compute, Cybernet’s Knowledge Heart and Cloud arm, explaining the ECP systems debacle.
He raised objection over the government tender and procurement course of to avail the IT services for nation’s General Elections.
He wrote, “The ECP system that went down last night delaying voter tally was offered to be hosted by us (RapidCompute) and one other local ISP. The native ISP quoted 1/10th our price regardless that we protested that the amount of compute muscle required by the system as clarified by the system architect is impossible to meet at such low a cost”.
Nonetheless, the ECP ignored the Speedy Compute’s reservation, leading to the final night debacle. He criticised the procurement course of as saying, “Our unending search for the cheaper possibility in the public and private sector has rarely paid dividends yet it continues. Choice on benefit , experience and skill is the norm worldwide and must be here as well!”.
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