E-Voting.CC (Competence Center for Electronic Voting & Participation)

EVOTE2012: Deadline for submission extended to 17 February 2012

manuel.kripp — 2012-01-31T09:27:00Z

We have received numerous requests from authors to extend the submission date for papers for the EVOTE2012 conference.

We are therefore extending the deadline to submit papers by two weeks.
We look forward to receive your paper by no later than Friday, February 17, 2012 (11:59pm).
Please make sure that you submit your paper(s) by this new deadline.

The EVOTE2012 is the fifth international conference on electronic voting and brings together a unique international and interdisciplinary mix of academia, administration, government and industry to discuss the latest trends and developments in e-voting.

The EVOTE2012 conference is taking place under the theme "Challenges for Electronic Voting - Transparency, Trust and Voter Education". The conference takes place at Schloss Hofen in Austria 11-14 July 2012.

To submit your paper please use the template as well as the guidelines and us the submission system available at http://www.easychair.org/conference/?conf=evote2012

Only submissions in Word and PDF format submitted via easychair are accepted.

We look forward to your submission and if you need any further information about the conference, go to http://www.e-voting.cc/2012

Best regards,

E-Voting.CC Team

Fifth edition of Modern Democracy News available

maria.kellner — 2011-12-19T16:33:00Z

The fifth and final edition of the Modern Democracy News for 2011 is now available for download!

With this edition you receive once again an insight of the latest news, trends and developments in the world of e-voting.

The newsletter is a PDF document available for download (LINK)

The current edition covers the following topics:
- EVOTE2012: How to submit your paper!
- New Working Paper of E-Voting.CC regarding i-voting for shareholder meetings
- Updated of the world map of e-voting
- Electronic voting plans of Belgium
- E-voting in parliaments
- E-voting in the United Kingdom
- Shortnews & Upcoming Events

We wish all subscribers of the Modern Democracy News Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We hope you continue reading our news in 2012!

We are very much looking forward to your feedback and hope you enjoy reading this issue of our Newsletter.
You can always reach us at office@e-voting.cc

The New Electronic Voting in Belgium - in use in 2012

manuel.kripp — 2011-12-06T17:36:00Z

On October 27th, 2011, the first public test with the new electronic voting machines has been executed in Belgium and 6.700 votes have been cast. The machines will be used in the municipal election in 2012 for the first time. The use will not be nationwide but only in selected municipalities.

The current status is that two municipalities in the Region of Brussels as well as half of the municipalities in the region Flanders will use the new EVM.

The new machines have been developed by a consortium led by Smartmatic. The modernized electoral process will be a combination of a touch-based Electronic Voting machine, a barcode printer, a scanner and a ballot box. This multi-faceted and complicated looking system design and setup is the result of the research efforts from the project bevote.

The voting machine hardware is based on previous developed voting machines from Smartmatic with an increased screen size and resolution and a newly developed operating system for the machines. The requirement engineering has been subject of the tendering process which originally planned a development time of two months. This timeframe is not sufficient when you take a look at the detailed requirements and specifications. Such requirements made a new development of the operating system of the EVM mandatory, which is an important factor for the successful implementation of electronic voting systems in general due to the very specific needs and demands of different political and electoral systems.

The setup consists in detail of the electronic voting machine. This machine does not store the vote or any voter information. The voting process at the machine is initiated by the voter with an identification card, which has been given to the voter by the polling station representatives based on a voters identity and eligibility check. Per polling station there will be 50 cards existing.

The casting of the votes takes place on the screen of the machine and the voter is displayed only the races he or she is eligible to participate.

After making the choices and confirming the selection the ballot paper is printed by the voting machine on a paper stripe containing the vote as a two-dimensional barcode and the selection per election in clear letters.

The voter takes the printed ballot to the separately located ballot box with a barcode scanning unit on top and puts the ballot after the successful scan in the sealed ballot box.

The scanning unit is connected to a laptop, which automatically stores the cast vote on two redundant secure USB-sticks. The used laptop does contain any other software than the electoral administration tool used for administrating the voting cards and for operating the USB-Sticks. As operating system for the laptops a Linux distribution is used.

The whole system worked in the artificial test environment perfectly and although the process sounds very complex and complicated, it was relatively easy to be executed. According to the representatives from the national electoral office in Belgium and the developer of the solution this impression was confirmed by the test users in the trials at the end of October. The final test for the solution will be the certification and auditing executed by the PWC later in December.

Acknowledgements:
We would like to thank the Belgium federal election authorities, the election administrators of the region Brussels as well as the developer Smartmatic for their cooperation and openness as well as access to the machines.

E-Voting in the United Kingdom

maria.kellner — 2011-12-06T09:36:00Z

Guest article by Charles Lasham, Independent Election Consultant

Electoral Pilot Schemes 2000-2007

Since 2000, the Electoral Commission for the United Kingdom (www.electoralcommission.org.uk)
encouraged local authorities in England to undertake pilot schemes that test new methods of voting and voting arrangements at local government elections which, if successful, might be adopted more widely. Between 2000 and 2007 there were six separate rounds of electoral pilot schemes. Pilots have included advance voting, all-postal voting pilots, multi-channel electronic voting and e-counting.

Electronic voting

The May 2007 elections saw five local authorities pilot a range of e-voting solutions, including remote internet voting, telephone voting and the provision of electronic polling stations enabling a vote anywhere environment on polling day. In broad terms, the remote e-voting elements of the May 2007 pilot schemes proved successful and facilitated voting, although there were some issues concerning accessibility, public understanding of the pre-registration process and, in at least one pilot area, technical problems in relation to telephone voting. However, in common with the e-counting pilots, there was insufficient time available to implement and plan the pilots, and the quality assurance and testing was undertaken too late and lacked sufficient depth.

The Commission recommended that no further e-voting is undertaken until the following four elements are in place:

There must be a comprehensive electoral modernization strategy outlining how transparency, public trust and cost effectiveness can be achieved.

A central process must be implemented to ensure that sufficiently secure and transparent e-voting solutions that have been tested and approved can be selected by local authorities.

Sufficient time must be allocated for planning e-voting pilots.

Individual voter registration must be implemented.

And the Commission concluded that it cannot support any further e-voting in the absence of a framework incorporating these recommendations.

Electronic counting

The issues surrounding e-counting at the May 2007 elections were considered to be complex and far-reaching. The elections saw six local authorities pilot e-counting, with mixed outcomes. While e-counting was successfully implemented in three authorities, the failure of the e-counting solutions in the three other local authorities resulted in the counts taking significantly longer than a normal manual count would have done.

The Commission believes that the piloting process has largely achieved its objective for e-counting and the Commission concluded that:

Substantial testing must be undertaken;

Sufficient time must be allowed for the development of e-counting projects;

Measures must be in place to ensure that current best practice is adopted.

One area where e-counting has been tried and tested successfully in the UK is in Greater London. The Greater London Returning Officer and the Office of London Elects (www.londonelects.org.uk) have taken unprecedented steps to ensure visibility, transparency and accuracy in the use of electronic vote counting technology since 1999. There will be three different voting systems in place for the three elections to be held in London on 3rd May, 2012. These are the biggest single set of elections in the United Kingdom with the election of the Mayor of London and 25 Assembly members. There will be over 5 million electors, using 4000 polling stations and there are 4 votes for each elector with three different electoral systems and three different coloured ballot papers.

E-Voting in Parliaments

maria.kellner — 2011-12-06T09:29:00Z

In 2002, Westminster tried to reform the House of Lords. There were five options; they took five majority votes and lost the lot. In other words, for the given voters profile, they used a decision-making procedure by which a decision could not be made. Robin Cook MP then tried to introduce preference voting but in vain, because that would have involved the technological development of a pencil and a piece of paper too [much] for our parliament and its medieval procedures. So, is there a chance for electronic voting in the Parliament of the UK?

Majority voting in parliaments

The term electronic voting usually refers to the electorate, rarely if ever to parliaments. And as shown in the book Defining Democracy (Springer, 2011), politicians like majority voting. It allows them to control almost the entire democratic process: they write the question, and the question is (usually) the answer. In any plural democracy, however, there should invariably be more than two possible solutions to any controversy. A better solution would be debating all options by MPs and then vote electronically and in secret.

According to the author, Majority voting is inaccurate and highly adversarial. A more inclusive and democratic methodology is the Modified Borda Count (MBC), as demonstrated in an electronic vote in Belfast in 1991, three years before the IRA cease-fire, and many times since.

Guest Article by Peter Emerson
The de Borda Institute
www.deborda.org

Working Paper: How to suceed in implementing internet voting?

maria.kellner — 2011-11-30T15:49:00Z

This new E-Voting.CC Working Paper analyses the challenges of implementing internet voting and provides a comprehensive
set of solutions. The paper introduces an up-to-date, holistic model of contemporary challenges associated with remote e-voting (internet voting) and uses it to discuss workable and clear-cut solutions for each of the internet voting constraints. It offers a complete guide along an array of specific tactical measures to be taken to cope with or prevent the majority of known problems with remote e-voting. Most importantly, the paper presents a set of important strategic recommendations which embrace the best practices and expert knowledge in the field and can pave the road to success in implementing remote electronic voting in legally binding political elections.

Download this Working Paper @ WP_1-2011_Challenges_i-voting (pdf, 153 KB)

EVOTE2012 - Second Call for Papers is out

manuel.kripp — 2011-11-23T11:10:00Z

The second Call for Papers for EVOTE2012 is out now.

The EVOTE2012 is the 5th International Conference on Electronic Voting and takes place in Castle Hofen, Bregenz, Austria from 11-14 July 2012.

Download your Call for Papers here (LINK)

This conference is organized by E-Voting.CC in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
It brings together E-Voting specialists working in academia, politics, government and industry from all over the world to hold an interdisciplinary and open discussion on all issues electronic voting involves.

Be part of this extraordinary event and join the e-voting community by submitting your paper.

Important deadlines:

Submission of the papers: 3 February 2012
Review deadline: 2 March 2012
Notification of acceptance 26 March 2012
Final paper submission 20 April 2012

All information on EVOTE2012 is available at: http://www.e-voting.cc/2012

EVOTE2010 - conference proceedings available online

maria.kellner — 2011-11-21T15:44:00Z

The Proceedings of the EVOTE2010 are now available as one single PDF for download:

Proceedings_EVOTE2010 (pdf, 3,712 KB)

For citation please use:
AUTHOR/S (2010) TITLE. In: Krimmer, R., Grimm, R.: Electronic Voting 2010. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Electronic Voting P-167, LNI GI Series, Bonn.

The coercion problem when voting from your home the Norwegian and the Indian perspective

maria.kellner — 2011-11-16T15:27:00Z

By Gerhard Skagestein, retired associate professor from the University of Oslo

The first remote electronic voting in Norway

The first election in Norway involving Internet-voting took place on a trial basis during August and September this year. In this municipal and county election, voters in ten selected municipalities could vote from their homes during the advance voting period from August 10th to September 9th. However, the voters also had the option to vote by traditional paper ballots, either during the advance vote period or on the Election Day September 12th. 22 % of those entitled to vote in the ten municipalities did so during the advance voting period, and of those advance votes were ¾ electronic votes.

This real life trial is not uncontroversial, however. The mostly discussed issue in the public here in Norway is that the ballot casting is brought out of the polling station into an open, uncontrolled environment. The voting in secrecy is then no longer guaranteed; the voter may be coerced to vote against his own will, or votes may be sold or bought. Also, some people say, the solemnity of the voting action is threatened.

In order to alleviate the secrecy problem, the Norwegian voting system allows you to cast a ballot electronically as many times as you like, but only the last ballot will be counted. Further, you may still vote on paper the traditional way, either during the advance voting period or on Election Day, and a paper ballot will always supersede any electronic ballot from the same voter. Thus, if a voter feel coerced, he or she will usually have another opportunity to cast a ballot.

This, however, does not soothe everybody. The Norwegian conservative political party Høyre proposed last year to the Parliament that the e-vote project should be stopped, and as an attachment had a legal report on the topic [Smith 2010]. (The proposal, by the way, was turned down by the majority in the Parliament.) In this report, the revoting possibilities described above are characterized as a fig leaf: "But it is difficult to understand why we should trust that the individual, who committed the criminal act to sell his vote, will actually bother to correct [his vote] later. The same goes for those who have voted under other forms of social pressure. For both groups is it also the case that the appearance in a polling station could easily be detected and reported by (other) members of the social structure that is the source of the problem." (My translation of the original text in Norwegian.)

First Internet Voting in India in Gujarat

During spring this year, I traveled India and studied electronic voting there. Of special interest to me was the state Gujarat, because this state is also embarking into Internet voting, and has already, in some municipalities, carried out an election where some voters could vote from their homes. I had the opportunity to meet the State Election Commissioner and some other employees of the State Election Commission of Gujarat.

In the Gujarat Internet voting system, you have to apply for being an Internet voter before the election, and if you get the status as Internet voter, you are not allowed to vote at a polling station. As an Internet voter, you can cast your vote only once, and it must be done on the Election Day. So in the Gujarat system, there are no possibilities for recasting your vote if you feel coerced, and any coercer has to watch you for only one day the Election Day.

With the controversy in Norway in the back of my head, I found this extremely interesting, so I asked the Chief election commissioner about the coercion problem. He did not see this as a problem at all. His opinion was that it was the responsibility of the voter himself not to be coerced. He also encountered with a bit of humor that the divorce rate in Gujarat was now approaching the divorce rates in Europe, and there was no reason to believe that people that were independent enough to get a divorce would not be independent enough to vote exactly the way they wanted.

His view was more or less confirmed by people in the street. Yes, there is a lot of coercion going on during the elections in India, mainly in the rural districts, where the head of the tribe often make the decisions for all its members. But this coercion is there independent of the voting technology whether you vote from your home or from a polling station does not matter. Over all, the voters trust in the voting system is very high.

It may belong to this story that the Gujarat Internet voting is mainly aimed at members of the middle class that have Internet connection at home and normally do not take the trouble to go to a polling station to vote. The idea is to increase the democratic responsibility of the middle class by getting its members to vote. And in this perspective is probably the coercion problem a minor issue.

Who is responsible for privacy - the state or the voter?

No one questions the democratic right to vote in privacy. But whereas the Indians think that the voter himself must take a lot of responsibility for achieving this, many Norwegians think that this must be ensured by the election authorities through the setup of the voting system. The skeptical Norwegians are probably not so worried about their own privacy, but rather that the possible violation of other people's privacy may influence the outcome of the election and thereby erode the trust in the election system in general. The Indians have other problems the challenge there is to educate people so that they dare to stand up and have their own point of view, independent of the leader of the social group they belong to.

The coercion problem will be investigated as a part of a rather substantial research project "Research and evaluation of the e-vote 2011 project", led and coordinated by the Institute for Social Research in Oslo. The future of Internet voting in Norway will certainly be influenced by the findings of this research project.

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[Smith 2010] Eivind Smith: Hemmelige elektroniske valg? Juridisk betenkning
http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Representantforslag/2009-2010/dok8-200910-128/3/
(in Norwegian)

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Gerhard Skagestein is a retired associate professor from the University of Oslo. He was one of the co-authors of the E-vote 2011 Pre-project report Electronic voting challenges and opportunities (2006), electronically available on http://www.regjeringen.no/upload/kilde/krd/red/2006/0087/ddd/pdfv/298587-evalg_rapport_engelsk201106.pdf
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The French I-voting experience

maria.kellner — 2011-11-16T15:24:00Z

Internet voting is going to be implemented for the first time in a political election in june 2012 for French expatriates.

by Pascal Courtade, French Ministry of Interior

The French electoral experience is ancient and therefore quite conservative. Online democracy is for the time being limited to a few voting machines (around 70 cities) and the online election of the members of the Assembly of the French Abroad, a consultative body related to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Legal aspects

In 2008, the French Constitution was changed and the 2.5 million expatriates were granted 11 elected representatives in the lower chamber of the Parliament from the June 2012 election. In order to boost voters participation, the government and the Parliament decided to authorize internet voting among other possibilities (including postal voting). The Law only includes the principle of i-voting and mentions the compliance with two principles: vote secrecy and election sincerity. The real legal work was namely the elaboration of the decree applying these principles. Its main challenge was to balance on the one side the objective of boosting the participation and enhancing the accessibility of the poll for expatriates, and on the other side of minimizing the risks of electoral fraud, family voting and so on. It was finally issued the 15th of July 2011. In particular, it was decided that the online election would be monitored by an electronic voting office including one magistrate, councillors of the Assembly of the French Abroad and government officials.

Technical choices

The main technical decisions were taken in accordance with this legal framework. It was chosen to improve the voting system currently used for the Assembly of the French Abroad election. The development of the voting system started 18 months ago with a consortium of two leading companies (Atos and Scytl). All along this period, the government had a constant care of associating the Commission nationale de linformatique et des libertés (the administrative authority responsible for ensuring that information technology respect privacy and public liberties) and the French Network and Information Security Agency. It was decided fit very strong IT security requirements for cryptographic processes. The separation between the e-ballot cast and the voter identity was also a cardinal principle of the conception of the system. In order to prevent any fraud, voters will receive their login and password by different ways. In the same time it was taken great care of ergonomics and accessibility (one-clic voting).

Final concerns

The next major step will be a worldwide technical test (12 000 voters) to be organized in December. One of the challenge will be to detect the problems which could occur in some countries forbidding cryptographic procedures or deprived of sound internet infrastructures. The councillors of the Assembly of the French Abroad will be involved in this test.

E-Voting in Switzerland: First trials at federal elections

maria.kellner — 2011-11-16T15:15:00Z

By Ardita Driza Maurer, Geo Taglioni and Anina Weber, Swiss Federal Chancellery

Switzerland is a federal state made up of 26 cantons (states) and some 2'500 communes (local level government). It is a direct democracy where citizens are consulted several times a year: four voting days per year are foreseen at federal level. Cantons and communes regularly use these deadlines also for cantonal and communal votes and elections and often appoint additional ones as well. Federal elections are held each four years. A number of other elections are organized at lower levels as well.

In addition to voting in person at the polling station, Swiss people can vote per post since 1992. In the year of 2000, e-voting project has been started with three pilot cantons (Geneva, Neuchâtel, and Zurich). Today 13 cantons participate at the e-voting trials. The Federal Chancellery coordinates the different cantonal projects and prepares the authorization needed for trials at the federal level.

Gradual introduction of Internet voting

While acknowledging the advantages of Internet voting, the federal government has opted for a step by step introduction of this third and additional voting channel in Switzerland. Such realistic approach reflects the technical and organizational challenges that the new voting channel brings with as well as the risks it presents. The federal government has decided already in 2006 that during the present legislation period (2007-2011), e-voting should be offered to no more than 10% of the federal electorate . The cantonal electorate who can benefit from this third additional channel is limited at 20% in certain cases .

The current projects focus on Swiss voters living abroad. Due to problems with the post delivery, this group of voters benefits the most from the new voting channel. Some 130'000 Swiss abroad are registered in Swiss electoral registers.

Innovative inter-cantonal cooperation

The present e-voting extension was made possible thanks to innovating inter-cantonal cooperation. The three pilot cantons who started to use e-voting already at the beginning of the project and who own and operate each an e-voting system, offer their expertise as well as the possibility of using their e-voting systems to other cantons. As a result, cantons without e-voting systems are able to organize Internet voting in a sure and economical way. Ten cantons profit already from this possibility and have signed the necessary agreements. Other cantons prepare to join.

First trials at federal elections

Until now, e-voting trials at the federal level focused on referenda. For the elections of the National Council of the 23rd of October 2011, four cantons (Aargau, Basel-Stadt, Graubünden, and St.Gallen) offered Internet voting for the first time at federal elections to their Swiss abroad. Two different e-voting systems had been in use: the systems of Geneva and Zurich. Up to 53% of the voters took advantage of the new voting channel and cast their vote over the Internet. In addition to the higher complexity of elections, election procedures differ from canton to canton. Therefore this new phase of elections means a big challenge. The four cantons and the Federal Chancellery started preparing these trials in 2010. A third report on e-voting which will be written in 2012 will analyze the gained experiences.

The national elections have been monitored by a delegation of the OSCE/ODHIR. E-voting was one of the focuses of the mission. The report and the recommendations of the OSCE/ODHIR are expected for December 2011.

Future Goals

It is the goal of the Federal Chancellery that the greatest majority of the 130000 Swiss abroad registered to vote are able to vote via Internet by 2012 and participate at (federal) elections by 2015. The long term goal is the introduction of e-voting as a third, complementary voting method including everyone who is eligible to vote. It is up to the cantons, whether and when they wish to introduce e-voting.

More information on the Swiss Internet Voting "Vote électronique" is available at the project website (LINK)

EVOTE2010 - conference proceedings available online

manuel.kripp — 2011-11-16T14:20:00Z

All articles and videos of the EVOTE2010 are now available for download below. Everything is structured according to the order in the conference proceedings.

For citation please use:
AUTHOR/S (2010) TITLE. In: Krimmer, R., Grimm, R.: Electronic Voting 2010. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Electronic Voting P-167, LNI GI Series, Bonn.

EVOTE 2010 conference proceedings:

Overview
Robert Krimmer, Rüdiger Grimm:
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Keynote Speech
Donetta Davidson, Election Assistance Commission, USA
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Session 1: Recent Developments in E-Voting

Voting Technology and the Election Experience: The 2009 Gubernatorial Races in New Jersey and Virginia
Thad Hall, Charles Stewart , R. Michael Alvarez
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The Use of E-Voting in the Federation of Students Elections 2009
Robert Krimmer, Andreas Ehringfeld, Markus Traxl
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Scantegrity Mock Election at Takoma Park
Alan T. Sherman, Richard Carback, David Chaum, Jeremy Clark, Aleksander Essex, Paul S. Herrnson, Travis Mayberry, Stefan Popoveniuc, Ronald L. Rivest, Emily Shen, Bimal Sinha, Poorvi Vora
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Session 2: Sociocultural Issues of E-Voting

The Role of Trust, Participation and Identity in the Propensity to E- & I-Vote
Letizia Caporusso
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The Virtual Polling Station Transferring the Sociocultural Effect of Poll Site Elections to Remote Internet Voting
Philipp Richter
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Session 3: Certification and Evaluation of E-Voting Systems

A Formal IT-Security Model for the Correction and Abort Requirement of Electronic Voting
Rüdiger Grimm, Katharina Hupf, Melanie Volkamer
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Compliance of POLYAS with the Common Criteria Protection Profile
Kai Reinhard, Niels Menke
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A Survey: Electronic Voting Development and Trends
Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita
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Session 4: Operation and Evaluation of E-Voting Systems

An Evaluation and Certification Approach to Enable Voting Service Providers.
Axel Schmidt, Melanie Volkamer, Johannes Buchmann
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Session 5: End to End Verfifiability and Protocol Improvements

Verifiability in Electronic Voting Explanations for Non Security Experts
Rojan Gharadaghy, Melanie Volkamer
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Verification Systems for Electronic Voting: A Survey
Jordi Pujol-Ahulló, Roger Jardi-Cedó, Jordi Castellà-Roca
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Sigma Ballots
Stefan Popoveniuc, Andrew Regenscheid
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Session 6: E-Voting Experiences

Electronic Elections in a Politicized Polity
Thad Hall, Leontine Leober
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Double-entry Accounting Provides Software-Independent Algorithm for Confirming the Integrity of Automated Election Tallies
Roberto S. Verzola
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Analysis of Recommendation Rec(2004)11 Based on the Experiences of Specific Attacks Against the First Legally Binding Implementation of E-Voting in Austria
Andreas Ehringfeld, Larissa Naber, Thomas Grechenig, Robert Krimmer, Markus Traxl, Gerald Fischer
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Session 7: Discussion of E-Voting Protocols

Universally Verifiable Efficient Re-Encryption Mixnet
Jordi Puiggalí Allepuz, Sandra Guasch Castelló
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Why Public Registration Boards are Required in E-Voting Systems Based on Threshold Blind Signature Protocols
Reto E. Koenig, Eric Dubuis, Rolf Haenni
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Session 8: Theoretical and Practical Implications of E-Voting

Coercion-Resistant Hybrid Voting Systems
Oliver Spycher, Rolf Haenni, Eric Dubuis
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E-voting in Japan: A developing case?
Masahiro Iwasaki:
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Council of Europe Session

Key steps to e-enabled elections
Susanne Caarls
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Council of Europe Plenary Discussion on Internet Voting
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Best Paper Award Ceremony
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The history of e-voting (poster for download)

maria.kellner — 2011-10-25T10:12:00Z

E-Voting.CC went on a quest for the roots of e-voting and had to go back to the middle of 19th century, when the idea of voting with technological means emerged. We draw a map which analyzes the developments of electronic voting from back then to now.

Here are some key findings of the historical research:
1859: Werner von Siemens develops the first electronic decision making application
1892: E-voting is used the first time in public in Lockport, New York, US, with an EVM of Jacob H. Meyr.
1960: the first computer for tabulating votes have been developed
1990: Devices with touch screen or key board interfaces and online technology are developed
1996: first internet voting at candidate selection of the Reform Party (US)

For further dates and facts you download a copy of this map here: (LINK)

Is there any important date missing?
Please let us know by email to office(at)e-voting.cc.

Third edition of Modern Democracy News available

maria.kellner — 2011-10-12T14:35:00Z

The third edition of the Modern Democracy News from E-Voting.CC, the Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation, for 2011 is now available!

With this edition you receive again a snapshot of the most important news, trends and developments regarding e-voting.

The newsletter is a PDF document which is published on our website, you can access it directly at http://www.e-voting.cc/static/evoting/files/e-voting_newsletter_3_11.pdf

The current edition covers the following topics:
- Call for Papers EVOTE2012
- DB.E-Voting.CC - the most comprehensive database on e-voting
- Norwegian Internet Voting 2011
- Modern Democracy Magazine 2011 #1
- Swiss Internet Voting
- EAC's survey internet voting

Of course, the latest trends and developments in E-Voting are covered by the short news.

The latest edition of our Modern Democracy Magazine was just sent to your hands. I sincerely hope you received it.
Please help us to plan the future of the magazine and participate in the MoDEM survey (german):
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WYSNTM2

We are very much looking forward to your feedback and hope you enjoy reading this issue of our Newsletter.
You can always reach us at office@e-voting.cc

EACs Report published: Survey of Internet Voting

manuel.kripp — 2011-09-21T16:14:00Z

The US Election Assistance Commission conducted a "Survey of Internet Voting" projects from January 2000 to November 2011 worldwide.
The study examines the voting system architectures, the standards for designing and/or testing these systems and evaluation and management of system risks. It provides detailed descriptions of internet voting, including election data, technology provider and participating voter.

31 internet voting projects in 13 countries were examined. The survey identifies some interesting results and facts about the internet voting use.

You can download the survey @ http://bit.ly/oHYlac

E-Voting.CC (Competence Center for Electronic Voting & Participation)

EVOTE2012: Deadline for submission extended to 17 February 2012

Fifth edition of Modern Democracy News available

The New Electronic Voting in Belgium - in use in 2012

E-Voting in the United Kingdom

E-Voting in Parliaments

Working Paper: How to suceed in implementing internet voting?

EVOTE2012 - Second Call for Papers is out

EVOTE2010 - conference proceedings available online

The coercion problem when voting from your home  the Norwegian and the Indian perspective

The French I-voting experience

E-Voting in Switzerland: First trials at federal elections

EVOTE2010 - conference proceedings available online

The history of e-voting (poster for download)

Third edition of Modern Democracy News available

EACs Report published: Survey of Internet Voting

The coercion problem when voting from your home the Norwegian and the Indian perspective

EACs Report published: Survey of Internet Voting