Are election results open to outside interference?

Ezgi Başaran wrote in daily Radikal this week that the results coming from ballot boxes were collected at the Supreme Election Board (YSK) with software that does not have a proper certificate.

The issues she pointed out are these:

Seçsis, the database and software through which election results are processed is not certified by the National Software Certification Center (UYSM). For this reason, the election results processed in this software cannot be controlled; they are open to being altered.

 The Seçsis server is at the National Judiciary Informatics System (UYAP). Consequently, the related engineers could be reached by the Ministry of Justice.

The YSK said, “It is a YSK corporate network, the data of which are encrypted and it is totally closed to the Internet except for the access of corporate staff. It is unique software that was prepared as a result of the joint work of Havelsan engineers and the expert staff in our corporation.”

Under the YSK, there is no staff that can process data during the election period. The staff are mostly provided by municipalities and are hired on a daily pay basis.

What Başaran has brought up is about the safeness of the elections concerning a very fundamental issue.

According to Oya Armutçu’s story, the YSK has decided to test this system before the presidential elections to eliminate doubts on the matter.

This is a positive attitude.

As understood from statements, the system does not have a UYSM certificate and this discrepancy should be resolved before the presidential elections.

It is a must that before the elections, this system be controlled whether it is open to outside intervention and a conclusion...