Indonesian Elections Use Elephants and Horses to Transport Ballot Boxes? Telpo Smart Terminals Can Assist Elections

On April 17, 2019, Indonesia launched the world's largest single-day election campaign – the Indonesian presidential election and the national parliamentary election. The Indonesian election has more than 190 million voters, and the voting time is only 8 hours. The logistics task of the election is very arduous and needs to travel through the jungle, not only to send elephants to transport the ballot boxes, but also to ensure the safety of voters in turbulent areas.

Delivery Ballot boxes by elephant, horse, and some regional votes "late"

Indonesia is known as the “land of thousands of islands” and spans three time zones from west to east. In order to ensure the smooth conduct of the vote, the Indonesian Election Commission has arranged 350,000 military and police personnel throughout the country to maintain order, and about 6 million staff members have been arranged in nearly 810,000 polling stations. 

The distribution of polling stations is scattered. The staff needs to go into the mountains and small islands by plane, by boat, by car, on foot, even by elephants, horseback riding, etc., to ensure that voting materials such as ballots and ballot boxes arrive at the polling stations on time.

According to the Indonesian "Jakarta Post" report, due to the failure of the voting materials in time, several areas of the Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, were forced to postpone the vote until the 18th.

In the face of complicated situation during the Indonesian election, whether can complete the entire democratic elections within 8 hours is a big problem. We wait and see. As a smart terminal manufacturer, Telpo has unique recommendations for Indonesia's national elections. The use of advanced e-voting machines can improve the quality and efficiency of the election. For presidential elections, Telpo has a variety of smart terminals option.

Mobile fingerprint Recognition Voting Machine TPS360

In Indonesia, the country of Thousand Island, some polling stations are remote and inconvenient. The compact TPS360 mobile fingerprint scanner is very suitable. Telpo TPS360 has built-in Qualcomm quad-core processor, Android 7.1 operating system, can run the heavy voter card applications. The TPS360 built-in fingerprint reader can perform mobile voter registration and verification. Large enough battery enables to standby for over 72 hours, to meet frequent validation checking. Moreover, TPS360 supports 4G, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, etc., and network communication is seamless to the voting center.

Mobile Biometric Tablet Voting machine TPS450

If you feel that the 5.5-inch screen is not convenient enough to view and use, you can choose the mobile biometric tablet TPS450 with 8-inch screen. Telpo TPS450 is also a Qualcomm quad-core 1.1 CPU, Android 7.1 OS, can handle high-intensity voter applications. In addition to providing fingerprint recognition, IC card and NFC card reading functions, the TPS450 provides Iris recognition. Iris feature is more stable than fingerprint. TPS450 can offer fingerprint scanner and Iris scanner for the votors. The TPS450 can be hand-held (providing a wrist strap) or hanging on the wall. In the complex environment of poll stations, TPS450 is more flexible and changeable.

Desktop biometric fingerprint E-voting machine TPS550

At the major polling stations, it is more appropriate to use a desktop biometric terminal to assist the presidential election. Telpo TPS550 is an ideal choice. Telpo TPS550 has multiple functions such as 5-inch touch screen, digital keypad, thermal printer, fingerprint scanner, barcode scanner. The fingerprint scanner can validate the voters’ ID and prevent voters from repeating the votes. After selecting the voting candidates, the TPS 550 can print the selection information and confirm. And the TPS550's built-in NFC card reader can be developed to have voter ID card identification.

In addition, Telpo has research and development experience in face recognition, voice recognition, palm recognition, etc., and can be customized the biometric devices according to application scenarios.

Telpo has the experience in offering the smart voting machines for national presidential elections in some African and Asian countries. According to customer feedback, because of the new smart polling machine, the presidential election efficiency has improved, and citizen information authentication is more accurate, which can track voter information and avoid repeated voting and false voting.

Indonesia presidential election, one of the largest scale national election in the world, is a major breakthrough in democratic elections. If the Indonesian election with smart devices is combined, it will not only provide the efficiency of the election, but also provide the accuracy and impartiality of the election. Welcome to Telpo and consult the more complete smart terminal solution about the voting.

Keywords: Indonesia presidential election, Indonesian election, voting machine, biometric voting machine, Indonesia voting terminals, Telpo smart terminal

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