Voting via satellite

A couple weeks ago, South Africa, held elections. For some it's a quick process of voting, but for others it can take a while due to long queues. Brazil held its first electronic elections last year. They are in fact the first country in the world to implement fully electronic elections. How did they achieve such a feat? By using BGan technology of course.

The BGan units were used for both voice calls and data transfers and they were able to isolate their network from the Internet to prevent unauthorised access. Brazil were actually able to release their results on the same day as voting. They also reported that the BGan units suffered no downtime despite heavy usage.

I'm quite certain that other countries will be investigating this technology and it is only a matter of time before we in South Africa start voting electronically.