The Dutch council of ministers decided yesterday to refrain from using electronic voting machines for good. This dates mainly back to the activities from the “We don’t trust voting computers group” by Rop Gongrijp who demonstrated on Dutch TV live how one change the EPROM of the Nedap voting machine and make it play chess. [...]
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Democratize the United Nations
I’m currently in London, attending the Local E-Democracy Symposium (http://www.empowerment-symposium.com) . There I came across an interesting project which tries to do a world-wide e-vote on the opinion of the world’s population on United Nations resolutions. The most recent one deals with the Kosovo becoming an own state, …
OVF Summit 2008
From 3rd to 4th of April the Overseas Voter Foundation will host its second annual summit to discuss The power of the Internet to democratize voting information and access to all US citizens around the globe; Military and Overseas Voters Speak Out: What are the challenges and how can we tackle them? Internet Voting: The [...]
E-Voting PhD position in Spain
And a final post for today. Jordi Barrat gave me note about a job offering for a PhD position on E-Voting. He is constitutional law professor at the University of Alicante. You don’t need to be proficient in Spanish although it would definitely help a lot Read more here: Framework: The position is funded by [...]
NDI publishes >Monitoring Electronic Technologies in Electoral Processes: An NDI Guide for Political Parties and Civic Organizations<
I had the chance to review an earlier version of the manuscript – it gives a good introduction on the tough job on how to observe and monitor implementations of technology in the electoral process. This overview can serve as a good starting point for looking into the interdisciplinary issues involved and gives an overview [...]
Springer Proceedings LNCS 4896 E-Voting and Identity
Following the successful VOTE-ID conference in Bochum last year, the conference chairs, Ammar Alkassar and Melanie Volkamer managed to accomplish very interesting post proceedings to appear the in the prestigious LNCS series from Springer publications. The following articles are included: The Development of Remote E-Voting Around the World: A Review of Roads and DirectionsRobert Krimmer, [...]
Update on DB.E-Voting.CC
In the past months we enhanced our e-voting database both visually and functionality wise.First of all we updated it to our CI and second also added the functionality to make accounts.If you wish changes and addendums to the database can now be attributed to your account soeverybody can who that smart-ass is to have added [...]
The Primaries in the Semantic Web – US Election Monitor 2008
Now as the primaries heat up, I would like to point you to a project by my colleague Arno Scharl from the Modul University here in Vienna, Austria. It’s the a follow up to the Election Monitor he did for the 2004 presidential elections. He uses semantic web technology to analyze both the attention and [...]
Database on E-Voting Uses Worldwide
Did you ever ask yourself how many voters participated in the 2000 ICANN at large election? Over the past 1 year I worked together with Stefan Triessnig and Daniel Botz on putting a WIKI-style database online, where everybody can document e-voting uses, trials, etc. We have come with more than 228 E-Voting uses in our [...]