e-Voting - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about e-voting and internet voting practices being adopted by government.
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e-Voting - United States - Archive
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Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to e-Voting in the United States.
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eVoting
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Resources about electronic and internet voting as it relates to government around the world
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eVoting - Canada
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Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to eVoting in Canada.
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eVoting: general articles
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Resources about electronic and internet voting as it relates to government around the world.
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eVoting: specific topics
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Resources about electronic and internet voting as it relates to government around the world.
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Elections Canada drops plan for online voting due to cuts
- Paper ballots will be the only choice, but a new report reveals multiple errors with them, By Leslie MacKinnon, CBC News, April 30, 2013. "Elections Canada has abandoned plans to experiment with an online voting pilot project before the 2015 general election due to budget cuts.
Elections Canada also has concerns about the security of online voting, but a new report indicates that voting irregularities happen frequently at polling stations on voting day even when paper ballots are used.
A spokesperson for Elections Canada said Tuesday that experiments with online voting are postponed "for the long term," and the reasons for the delay are due to an eight per cent budget cut that took effect this year, translating into a loss of $7.5 million per year.
A plan to try out online voting in a federal byelection sometime before 2015 has been quashed..."
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Online ballots are a vote for democracy
- by Nick Bilton. The Age, November 12, 2012. "An app that would let people vote from home should be a top priority. Last Tuesday, millions of Americans stood in long lines to cast their votes. While they waited, sometimes for several hours, many used their smartphones to pass the time.
Some read articles about the election. Others updated their Twitter or Instagram feeds with pictures of the lines at the polls. And some took care of more private tasks, like sharing health information with their doctors, reading and editing confidential work documents, or paying bills and transferring money using banking applications..."
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Why You Can't Vote Online
- Fundamental security problems aren't solved, computing experts warn, By David Talbot. MIT Technology Review, November 5, 2012. "A decade and a half into the Web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can't we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents specific kinds of very hard problems.
Even though some countries do it and there have been trial runs in some precincts in the United States, computer security experts at a Princeton symposium last week made clear that online voting cannot be verifiably secure, and invites disaster in a close, contentious race..."
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Voting: What Has Changed, What Hasn't, and What Needs Improvement
- by R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech; Jonathan N. Katz, Caltech, Charles Stewart III, MIT; Ronald L. Rivest, MIT, Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard; Thad E. Hall, University of Utah. Voting Technology Project - CalTech - MIT, 18 October, 2012. "... In this report, we examine how voting technologies and election administration in the United States have changed—or have not changed—since the controversial 2000 presidential election. We present our research and analyses of the past 12 years, as well as the perspectives of a number of individuals prominent in the election administration, voting technology, and election advocacy communities.
Based on our research reported here, we provide the following recommendations for how we might improve the administration and technology of elections in the United States..."
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The state of the U.S. election system
- New report from MIT and Caltech notes gains in voting-machine technologies, but warns they could be cancelled out by errors introduced through mail and Internet voting.
Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office, October 18, 2012. "When it comes to the integrity and accuracy of voting systems in the United States, the good news is that widespread technological upgrades have largely eliminated the voting-machine problems that were so evident when Florida's disputed recount determined the 2000 presidential election.
The bad news is that some of those improvements in accuracy could be undermined by increases in early voting through the mail, which is turning out to be a relatively low-accuracy method of voting, according to a new research report released by MIT and the California Institute of Technology..."
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Credibility of democracy put at risk by online voting
- By Cristian Worthington, Vancouver Sun, August 17, 2012. "Chief electoral officer Keith Archer has announced the formation of a panel of experts to investigate whether British Columbia should adopt Internet voting. Let's hope the panel focuses on the big picture before getting bogged down with technical details.
Our democracy is built on the assurance of a secret ballot and the principle that one person gets only one vote..."
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Electronic voting and counting
- Elections ACT, 5 July 2012. "The ACT's electronic voting system is the first of its kind to be used for parliamentary elections in Australia. The electronic voting system was used at the 2008 election in 5 locations in Canberra’s main town centres. The electronic voting system will be used again at the 2012 election in selected locations.
The ACT's electronic voting system was first used at the October 2001 election and was again used at the October 2004 election.
The system uses standard personal computers as voting terminals, with voters using a barcode to authenticate their votes. Voting terminals are linked to a server in each polling location using a secure local area network. No votes are taken or transmitted over a public network like the Internet..."
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Making the Case for Online Voting (Opinion)
- By Natalie E. Tennant. Government Technology, June 29, 2012. "Editor's note: Natalie Tennant is the Secretary of State of West Virginia. She wrote this column for the July issue of Government Technology magazine.
In 2010, West Virginia initiated a pilot program to provide deployed military and overseas citizens the opportunity to cast their ballot quickly and securely over the Internet. That year, 31 states provided military and overseas voters enhanced ballot access. This included electronic delivery of ballots, online access to ballots, and a variety of electronic ballot return options.
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City of Sydney - Community Preselection
- For the first time ever, the entire Sydney City community is being invited to help choose Labor's local candidate for Lord Mayor. Eligible voters can vote either online, in person or by post.
You can have your say by voting between now and Saturday 2 June 2012.
The online voting site launched on May 14 where you could enter your name, address and birth date as they appear on the electoral roll.
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E-voting system declares wrong winners in Florida
- An optical-scan vote-tallying system, now used by some 300 US municipalities, misreported the results of an election in Palm Beach County, Florida, last month, By Jaikumar Vijayan - Framingham. Computerworld, Tuesday, 24 April, 2012. "... Dominion Voting's Sequoia Voting Systems device mistakenly awarded two Wellington Village Council seats to candidates who were found in a post-election audit to have lost their races.
The results were officially changed after a court-sanctioned manual recount of the votes..."
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VEC develops tablet-based e-voting system
- Does away with previous systems due to a lack of transparency, by Chloe Herrick. Computerworld, 5 April, 2012. "The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) has flagged plans to develop an open source e-voting system for the next state election in November 2014, doing away with the touchscreen-based kiosks it used in 2010.
VEC project manager IT branch, Craig Burton, told Computerworld Australia the commission has built the new system, which will be implemented at early voting centres for the 2014 election and be tested at potential by-elections in 2013..."
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NSW govt rejects iVote for upcoming council elections
- The system will be used in the 2015 state election, dependent on funding approval, by Chloe Herrick. Computerworld, 12 March, 2012. "The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) has confirmed its electronic voting system, iVote, will not be used in the upcoming local government elections in September due to legislative restrictions..."
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WA Electoral Commission to develop telephone voting system
- The agency began work on the system after funding for its internet voting system was withdrawn, by Chloe Herrick. Computerworld, 5 March, 2012. "The WA Electoral Commission (WAEC) has commenced work on a telephone-based voting system after the the State Government withdrew funding for its internet voting system.
WAEC IT manager, Desmond Chenik, told Computerworld Australia the full internet voting system it was scheduled to develop this year, for the blind and vision impaired along with the armed forces, had been put on hold after several months of work..."
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First eVoting trials in federal elections carried out successfully
- ePractice.eu, 14 November 2011. Country Switzerland; Domain eGovernment; Topic Efficiency & Effectiveness, Benchmarking, eParticipation, eDemocracy and eVoting, Services for Citizens, Policy, Regional and Local, User-centric Services. "Four cantons successfully conducted eVoting trials during the National Council elections held on 23 October 2011, marking the first time that pilots were carried out in a Swiss federal election..."
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iPads in Oregon Election a Success, Official Says
- By Sarah Rich. Government Technology, November 14, 2011. "Oregon's primary special election last week marked the first time a state used iPads to assist in the voting process.
The iPads were made available in all or part of five Oregon counties: Washington, Columbia, Multnomah, Yamhill and Clatsop — all located in the state’s northwestern region — to help voters with disabilities fill out their ballots. The pilot was led by the Secretary of State’s Elections Division..."
This category last updated: 9 May 2013