Electronic Voting

Electronic Voting in Victoria: Background, Comparisons, and Implications

by Peter John Chen

In Mid 2006, the State Government of Victoria (ALP) introduced a piece of legislation into the Legislative Assembly to... more In Mid 2006, the State Government of Victoria (ALP) introduced a piece of legislation into the Legislative Assembly to empower the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) to
undertake a limited experiment in electronic voting in the forthcoming State election.
This legislation, Electoral and Parliamentary Committees Legislation (Amendment) Bill ("the Bill"), sets out a range of requirements and specifications for the introduction of
electronic voting (including new offences related to the implementation of this technology). In short, the Bill, when assented, will:
Empower the VEC to implement electronic voting machines for use by electors with a visual impairment. This provision will not be regarded as a right (e.g. an elector
can not demand to have a facility provided for them in their electorate, nor demand to use a system).
Specify a range of performance requirements for the software of the system implemented, essentially to ensure that the system provides the same level of utility as
the existing system (preferential voting, capacity to lodge an informal vote, ability to review the vote prior to casting the ballot, etc.).
While the legislation is ambiguous in that it provides for electronic voting to be available through a limited number of designated electronic voting centres (similar to the voting
"super centres" employed by the VEC in previous elections to offer additional services to disabled voters), it is clear that the intention of the legislation is to provide the legal
basis for stand alone (or local area networked) electronic voting machines to be implemented rather than the more controversial use of internet-based voting systems.
The advantage of these systems are that they allow complete physical control over the electronic voting system (if implemented correctly) by electoral officials and therefore
significantly reduce the risks of vote tampering that have been hypothesised around internet-based systems.

Electronic and Athenian Democracy

by paul cockshott

Looks at the voting machine technology used by the Athenians and its lessons for modern electronic democracy. Looks at the voting machine technology used by the Athenians and its lessons for modern electronic democracy.

Usability of Mobile Voting with NFC Technology

by Kerem Ok

Voting is a method to select one opinion or a person often following discussion, debate or an election campaign. After... more Voting is a method to select one opinion or a person often following discussion, debate or an election campaign. After centuries of paper based voting ballots, electronic voting is used along with various technologies. One of the promising technologies is Near Field Communication (NFC) which allows data transfer between NFC-enabled devices and smart tags within a short distance. In this paper, we have presented a new type of a secure voting system, namely NFC voting, and evaluated the system’s usability in a university council election with an executable prototype. Among other findings, we found that NFC voting satisfies electronic voting requirements and further increases the subjective usability of the proposed system.

Dimensões da Ciberdemocracia: Conceitos e Experiências Fundamentais

by Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques

Master's dissertation. Text in Portuguese. Abstract in English available: This dissertation aims to examine some... more Master's dissertation. Text in Portuguese. Abstract in English available: This dissertation aims to examine some dimensions of the interface between democracy
and new technologies of communication and information, its potentialities, problems and perspectives. To admit that new technologies of communication revolutionize democracy is not only to adhere to a triunfalist perspective. It implies, also, in accepting that democracy have some lacks that compromise its superiority while government form. On the other hand, to deny the potential of these technologies for concerting different ways of political manifestation, inclusively from the civil sphere, is not a satisfactory view. One examine five class of manifest phenomena in the thelematics nets with implications in the political field: Electronic Government, Electronic Vote, Digital Activism, Parties and Campaign in a Digital Age and Virtual Public Sphere. The central hypothesis comprises that democracy has in the Internet a complementar channel to foster the participation of citizens and to conform spaces of debate and information, besides indicating changes in the relations between institutional agents (government and partisan clubs) and civil sphere.

Demographic Differences In Attitudes Toward Remote Electronic Voting Systems

by Chitu Okoli

Will Remote Electronic Voting Systems Increase Participation?

by Chitu Okoli

Ocho dudas razonables sobre la necesidad del voto electrónico.

by Josep M. Reniu

Barcelona, UOC, 2008.