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Fake ballot generator for Turkish elections (June 24)

midorikocak.github.io

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The governing party supporting employers are asking for ballot photos voted for governing party. This little HTML5 / Canvas app made for the people who are asked to prove that they voted for governing party.

As a matter of programming, it is very hard to actually put the stamp in the circle. The northwest arc ends up lining up with the tail of the mouse pointer.

While uploading an ID card is optional, anyone doing that ought to be concerned that now their use of this site is documented along with their ID in addition to their IP address.

Especially since making copies of the ballot without a sample watermark might be illegal (I would expect it to be, but I haven't checked.)

In Turkey, your vote is private. If our employer is asking for a photo of your ballot so as to coerce you to vote a certain way to protect your job, you might want to consider reporting them to the prosecutor's office, police, or the elections council.

Thank you for your comment. Stamps are positioned manually because there is no electronic voting system in Turkey. The source code is open and the app is hosted on the github. So there is no persistence.

1. The prosecutor's and Judges council consists of members assigned by President. Currently, in Turkey, there is rule of law, due to this. For the same crime or allegation, two people get totally different treatment based on their connection to the ruling party. This was the first one.

2. The illegality of voting ballots is another issue. Facsimile ballots were not counted as legal votes in the previous election. (Referendum) They were counted as invalid votes. But during the referendum day of April 16, 2017, when votes were counted, more pro-government yes votes without local ballot council started to appear from everywhere. (Normally local ballot box council members stamp all votes in their box with their official stamp.)

It turns out that many boxes were filled or replaced with votes that did not have local ballot box council. Also, governing party officials asked for votes with local ballot box council stamp from the people to prove that they voted for governing party. (To give them work, money, help etc.) So they gave prestamped facsimile votes to their voters in advance. During the counting process, opposition members objected to this situation but YSK, highest council of election approved a scandal decision to accept facsimile votes as legal.

So, in Turkey, there is no watermark or any other thing to prevent government officials to do Nazi party tactics to be elected.

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