మరోసారి పిడుగుపాటు హెచ్చరిక చేసింది ఆర్టీజీఎస్. విజయనగరంతో పాటు.. శ్రీకాకుళం జిల్లాల్లోని పలు ప్రాంతాల్లో ప్రజలు అప్రమత్తంగా ఉండాలని సూచించింది. విజయనగరం జిల్లా కురుపాం మండలం... శ్రీకాకుళం జిల్లా పాల‌కొండ, హిర మండలం, ఎల్‌ఎన్‌ పేట... సీతంపేట, పాత‌ప‌ట్నం, మెళియాపుట్టి మండలాల్లో ఉరుములు, మెరుపులతో కూడిన వర్షం పడొచ్చని తెలిపింది. పిడుగులు పడే ప్రమాదం ఉన్నందున.. వర్షం పడే సమయంలో ఆయా ప్రాంతాల ప్రజలు బయటికి రాకుండా ఉండాలని కోరింది.
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శ్రీకాకుళం, విజయనగరం జిల్లాల్లో పిడుగుపాటుకు అవకాశం ఉందని ఆర్టీజీఎస్ హెచ్చరించింది. ప్రజలు అప్రమత్తంగా ఉండాలని కోరింది.
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మరోసారి పిడుగుపాటు హెచ్చరిక చేసింది ఆర్టీజీఎస్. విజయనగరంతో పాటు.. శ్రీకాకుళం జిల్లాల్లోని పలు ప్రాంతాల్లో ప్రజలు అప్రమత్తంగా ఉండాలని సూచించింది. విజయనగరం జిల్లా కురుపాం మండలం... శ్రీకాకుళం జిల్లా పాల‌కొండ, హిర మండలం, ఎల్‌ఎన్‌ పేట... సీతంపేట, పాత‌ప‌ట్నం, మెళియాపుట్టి మండలాల్లో ఉరుములు, మెరుపులతో కూడిన వర్షం పడొచ్చని తెలిపింది. పిడుగులు పడే ప్రమాదం ఉన్నందున.. వర్షం పడే సమయంలో ఆయా ప్రాంతాల ప్రజలు బయటికి రాకుండా ఉండాలని కోరింది.
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SHOTLIST:
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Tallinn - 15 May 2019
1. Wide top shot of Estonia's old town, Tallinn
2. Mid of medieval tower with Baltic Sea in background
3. Closeup of old cast iron flower pot with Estonia flags in background
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Tallinn - 16 May 2019
4. Civil servant Linda Lainvoo walking down steps next to flags
5. Tracking shot of Lainvoo
6. Lainvoo walking into cafe
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"It's May 16, 2019. And I'm about to start i-voting for the European elections in Estonia."
8. Close up of Lainvoo
9. Close up hands of Lainvoo
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"I'm going to be voting online. For that I need to go on the election webpage."
11. Mid of computer screen, UPSOUND Lainvoo (English) "And download an app"
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"I need to take my ID card."
13. Closeup on Lainvoo inserting her ID card into a card reader integrated into her computer
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"So I've logged in, I've identified myself and now basically I'm in my voting booth."
15. Close up of computer screen showing the electoral parties and lists, UPSOUND Lainvoo (English) "I've entered the booth and I'm just sort of opening the lists."
16. Close up of Lainvoo hands on computer trackpad, UPSOUND Lainvoo (English) "I'm now choosing the party I want to vote for."
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"Now I've done it, I entered my PIN and it took me about 30 seconds " ++ENDS on SHOT 18++
18. Closeup on hands on computer
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"Being as young as I am, I couldn't imagine my life any different. I mean without giving signatures online, without voting online. Basically, I do everything online so I don't have to stand in queues and do things on paper, send documents with post. So, it's something I can't really imagine living without."
20. Lainvoo seen through the window of the cafe with reflections on glass of passers-by
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Tallinn - 15 May 2019
21. Wide of pedestrians in old street
22. Mid of pedestrians walking
23. Close up of sculpture on a fountain with pedestrians in background
24. Setup shot of Priit Vinkel, Head of the Electoral Office
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Priit Vinkel, Head of the Electoral Office:
"In the very beginning, the first three, four elections we had, there used to be like a profile to the i-voter. But after that it diffused in the electorate and we can't say who the i-voter is. Any eligible voter can be an i-voter."
26. Cutaway hands
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Priit Vinkel, Head of the Electoral Office:
"What we can say is that it has stopped alienation, that people tend to still vote at least the same amount they used to 10 years ago. And we get lots of increase from abroad."
28. Wide of pedestrians in old street
29. Mid of pedestrians in street
30. Mid of people sitting on bench
31. Wide of building home to Cybernetica, the company that designed the i-voting system
32. Cybernetica logo
33. SOUNDBITE (English) Arne Ansper, architect of Estonia's i-voting system:
"Postal voting and Internet voting are very similar. In both cases we have external envelopes - which is the digital signature for Internet voting. When we receive this digitally signed ballot, we will first verify that it's correct, we will put it into the correct district and then we will remove this outer digitally signed envelope. And then we have an anonymous internal envelope that is basically created using encryption, during a tallying process we will decrypt it and then we can count the votes."
34. EU election campaign sticker on the back of a backpack
35. Mid of yellow balloons at an EU election campaign booth for the Reform Party
36. Wide of booth
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Airis Meier, candidate in the European elections for the Reform Party:
"If he didn't have the i-voting possibility there would be less turnout, yes, a smaller turnout, that's for sure. Because people, you know there's only one day you can go and maybe that day it's raining or something, so yeah."
38. People carrying Reform Party's yellow balloons
39. SOUNDBITE (English) Tonu Tammer, Executive Director of CERT, government agency responsible for the security of Estonia's computer networks:
"I think trust is the paramount factor in making sure that Internet-based voting actually takes place."
40. Cutaway hands
41.SOUNDBITE (English) Tonu Tammer, Executive Director of CERT, government agency responsible for the security of Estonia's computer networks:
"The biggest concern when it comes to trust is dissemination of false news and false claims concerning the i-voting."
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Tallinn - 14 May 2019
42. Wide of city skyline at sunset
43. Wide of cityscape with ferry in the Baltic Sea in the background
STORYLINE:
Estonia was crippled by cyberattacks on government networks during a dispute with Russia in 2007.
Today, the tiny tech-savvy nation is so certain of its cyber defences that it is the only country in the world to allow internet voting for the entire electorate, in every election, and thousands have already done so ahead of elections to the European Parliament.
Internet voting - or i-voting - has been available since 2005 in the nation that gave the world Skype, and the percentage of voters using the internet to cast ballots has increased with each election, reaching 44% of voters in national election in March.
Linda Lainvoo was one of the first Estonians to vote in the European Parliament election, which she did from a cafe before heading to work on Thursday morning.
The 32-year-old civil servant has voted online since she was first eligible to vote.
"I couldn't imagine my life any different," Lainvoo said after logging into a secure online portal with her ID card and a PIN code. "I do everything online so I don't have to stand in queues and do things on paper."
After downloading an app and identifying herself, she viewed the electoral lists inside a virtual "voting booth" and selected her candidate.
The elections are taking place from May 23-26 across the 28-member bloc to fill 751-seat European Parliament, where Estonia, a nation of just 1.3 million, has six representatives.
It took Lainvoo about 30 seconds to vote and by the time she had finished, around 2,000 others in Estonia had also voted.
Estonia's i-voting system runs from the 10th until the fourth day before the election and allows people to cast multiple ballots, with only the last vote counting. This aims to prevent voter coercion.
Young, tech-savvy males made up the bulk of i-voters in the first few elections, according to the head of Estonia's Electoral Office, Priit Vinkel.
But after four elections it "diffused in the electorate and we can't say who the i-voter is. Any eligible voter can be an i-voter."
The electoral commission's research shows internet voting significantly increases turnout for Estonians abroad and for people living more than 30 minutes away from a polling station.
While it's hard to quantify the impact of i-voting on the overall turnout numbers, Vinkel says it's a "sticky voting method" that has "stopped alienation," meaning a majority of people who have voted online at least once keep voting electronically and are more likely than average voters to keep voting at all.
When Estonia broke away from the Soviet Union and declared its independence nearly three decades ago, it embarked on a modernisation program including going digital early on.
The country has introduced a high-tech national ID system in which physical ID cards are linked to digital signatures that citizens use not only to vote, but to pay taxes and access health and school records.
But there have been vulnerabilities.
In 2007, a massive cyber-attack crippled the country's networks following a dispute with Russia over Estonia's removal of a Soviet-era war memorial in Tallinn. The unprecedented scale of the attack forced governments worldwide to reconsider the importance of network security and defence.
Estonia, which borders Russia, took time to build security and privacy into its model. It created a platform that supports electronic authentication and digital signatures to enable paperless communications, in contrast with failed efforts by private companies to provide secure online voting systems in the United States, for example.
The architect of Estonia's i-voting system, Arne Ansper, compares it to postal voting. An external envelope verifies the identity of the voter - a digital signature for internet voting -which is then stripped from the ballot, leaving an anonymous internal envelope guaranteeing the secrecy of the vote.
This envelope is then decrypted at the end of the election.
Transparency and security have been built into the system by allowing people to verify that their vote has been tallied correctly, while a third-party system creates logs that are compared to the results of the ballot boxes and which would reveal any discrepancies.
The role played by social media and fake accounts used to spread fake news in the 2016 US election has also forced governments to reassess electoral interference.
"Trust is the paramount factor in making sure that Internet-based voting actually takes place," said Tonu Tammer from the government agency in charge of the security of Estonia's computer networks.
Tammer says his organisation is continuously monitoring and adapting to possible threats to the system, but says there are greater risks than an internet attack.
"The biggest concern when it comes to trust is the dissemination of false news," he said, explaining that it's easier to erode trust by claiming electoral fraud than actually carrying out a successful attack.
On Friday, the European Commission criticised social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter for not doing enough to fight disinformation ahead of the EU elections.
But with more than 82,500 people having already voted online at the time of publishing, it seems trust is still strong.
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SHOTLIST:
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Tallinn - 15 May 2019
1. Wide top shot of Estonia's old town, Tallinn
2. Mid of medieval tower with Baltic Sea in background
3. Closeup of old cast iron flower pot with Estonia flags in background
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Tallinn - 16 May 2019
4. Civil servant Linda Lainvoo walking down steps next to flags
5. Tracking shot of Lainvoo
6. Lainvoo walking into cafe
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"It's May 16, 2019. And I'm about to start i-voting for the European elections in Estonia."
8. Close up of Lainvoo
9. Close up hands of Lainvoo
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"I'm going to be voting online. For that I need to go on the election webpage."
11. Mid of computer screen, UPSOUND Lainvoo (English) "And download an app"
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"I need to take my ID card."
13. Closeup on Lainvoo inserting her ID card into a card reader integrated into her computer
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"So I've logged in, I've identified myself and now basically I'm in my voting booth."
15. Close up of computer screen showing the electoral parties and lists, UPSOUND Lainvoo (English) "I've entered the booth and I'm just sort of opening the lists."
16. Close up of Lainvoo hands on computer trackpad, UPSOUND Lainvoo (English) "I'm now choosing the party I want to vote for."
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"Now I've done it, I entered my PIN and it took me about 30 seconds " ++ENDS on SHOT 18++
18. Closeup on hands on computer
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Lainvoo, 32-year-old civil servant:
"Being as young as I am, I couldn't imagine my life any different. I mean without giving signatures online, without voting online. Basically, I do everything online so I don't have to stand in queues and do things on paper, send documents with post. So, it's something I can't really imagine living without."
20. Lainvoo seen through the window of the cafe with reflections on glass of passers-by
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Tallinn - 15 May 2019
21. Wide of pedestrians in old street
22. Mid of pedestrians walking
23. Close up of sculpture on a fountain with pedestrians in background
24. Setup shot of Priit Vinkel, Head of the Electoral Office
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Priit Vinkel, Head of the Electoral Office:
"In the very beginning, the first three, four elections we had, there used to be like a profile to the i-voter. But after that it diffused in the electorate and we can't say who the i-voter is. Any eligible voter can be an i-voter."
26. Cutaway hands
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Priit Vinkel, Head of the Electoral Office:
"What we can say is that it has stopped alienation, that people tend to still vote at least the same amount they used to 10 years ago. And we get lots of increase from abroad."
28. Wide of pedestrians in old street
29. Mid of pedestrians in street
30. Mid of people sitting on bench
31. Wide of building home to Cybernetica, the company that designed the i-voting system
32. Cybernetica logo
33. SOUNDBITE (English) Arne Ansper, architect of Estonia's i-voting system:
"Postal voting and Internet voting are very similar. In both cases we have external envelopes - which is the digital signature for Internet voting. When we receive this digitally signed ballot, we will first verify that it's correct, we will put it into the correct district and then we will remove this outer digitally signed envelope. And then we have an anonymous internal envelope that is basically created using encryption, during a tallying process we will decrypt it and then we can count the votes."
34. EU election campaign sticker on the back of a backpack
35. Mid of yellow balloons at an EU election campaign booth for the Reform Party
36. Wide of booth
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Airis Meier, candidate in the European elections for the Reform Party:
"If he didn't have the i-voting possibility there would be less turnout, yes, a smaller turnout, that's for sure. Because people, you know there's only one day you can go and maybe that day it's raining or something, so yeah."
38. People carrying Reform Party's yellow balloons
39. SOUNDBITE (English) Tonu Tammer, Executive Director of CERT, government agency responsible for the security of Estonia's computer networks:
"I think trust is the paramount factor in making sure that Internet-based voting actually takes place."
40. Cutaway hands
41.SOUNDBITE (English) Tonu Tammer, Executive Director of CERT, government agency responsible for the security of Estonia's computer networks:
"The biggest concern when it comes to trust is dissemination of false news and false claims concerning the i-voting."
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Tallinn - 14 May 2019
42. Wide of city skyline at sunset
43. Wide of cityscape with ferry in the Baltic Sea in the background
STORYLINE:
Estonia was crippled by cyberattacks on government networks during a dispute with Russia in 2007.
Today, the tiny tech-savvy nation is so certain of its cyber defences that it is the only country in the world to allow internet voting for the entire electorate, in every election, and thousands have already done so ahead of elections to the European Parliament.
Internet voting - or i-voting - has been available since 2005 in the nation that gave the world Skype, and the percentage of voters using the internet to cast ballots has increased with each election, reaching 44% of voters in national election in March.
Linda Lainvoo was one of the first Estonians to vote in the European Parliament election, which she did from a cafe before heading to work on Thursday morning.
The 32-year-old civil servant has voted online since she was first eligible to vote.
"I couldn't imagine my life any different," Lainvoo said after logging into a secure online portal with her ID card and a PIN code. "I do everything online so I don't have to stand in queues and do things on paper."
After downloading an app and identifying herself, she viewed the electoral lists inside a virtual "voting booth" and selected her candidate.
The elections are taking place from May 23-26 across the 28-member bloc to fill 751-seat European Parliament, where Estonia, a nation of just 1.3 million, has six representatives.
It took Lainvoo about 30 seconds to vote and by the time she had finished, around 2,000 others in Estonia had also voted.
Estonia's i-voting system runs from the 10th until the fourth day before the election and allows people to cast multiple ballots, with only the last vote counting. This aims to prevent voter coercion.
Young, tech-savvy males made up the bulk of i-voters in the first few elections, according to the head of Estonia's Electoral Office, Priit Vinkel.
But after four elections it "diffused in the electorate and we can't say who the i-voter is. Any eligible voter can be an i-voter."
The electoral commission's research shows internet voting significantly increases turnout for Estonians abroad and for people living more than 30 minutes away from a polling station.
While it's hard to quantify the impact of i-voting on the overall turnout numbers, Vinkel says it's a "sticky voting method" that has "stopped alienation," meaning a majority of people who have voted online at least once keep voting electronically and are more likely than average voters to keep voting at all.
When Estonia broke away from the Soviet Union and declared its independence nearly three decades ago, it embarked on a modernisation program including going digital early on.
The country has introduced a high-tech national ID system in which physical ID cards are linked to digital signatures that citizens use not only to vote, but to pay taxes and access health and school records.
But there have been vulnerabilities.
In 2007, a massive cyber-attack crippled the country's networks following a dispute with Russia over Estonia's removal of a Soviet-era war memorial in Tallinn. The unprecedented scale of the attack forced governments worldwide to reconsider the importance of network security and defence.
Estonia, which borders Russia, took time to build security and privacy into its model. It created a platform that supports electronic authentication and digital signatures to enable paperless communications, in contrast with failed efforts by private companies to provide secure online voting systems in the United States, for example.
The architect of Estonia's i-voting system, Arne Ansper, compares it to postal voting. An external envelope verifies the identity of the voter - a digital signature for internet voting -which is then stripped from the ballot, leaving an anonymous internal envelope guaranteeing the secrecy of the vote.
This envelope is then decrypted at the end of the election.
Transparency and security have been built into the system by allowing people to verify that their vote has been tallied correctly, while a third-party system creates logs that are compared to the results of the ballot boxes and which would reveal any discrepancies.
The role played by social media and fake accounts used to spread fake news in the 2016 US election has also forced governments to reassess electoral interference.
"Trust is the paramount factor in making sure that Internet-based voting actually takes place," said Tonu Tammer from the government agency in charge of the security of Estonia's computer networks.
Tammer says his organisation is continuously monitoring and adapting to possible threats to the system, but says there are greater risks than an internet attack.
"The biggest concern when it comes to trust is the dissemination of false news," he said, explaining that it's easier to erode trust by claiming electoral fraud than actually carrying out a successful attack.
On Friday, the European Commission criticised social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter for not doing enough to fight disinformation ahead of the EU elections.
But with more than 82,500 people having already voted online at the time of publishing, it seems trust is still strong.
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(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service
(iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory.
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(i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com
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