After initial media noise in 2011 around women´s eligibility to vote and then announcements on the modernizing of the electoral process and it´s transparency backed by technology in the first quarter of 2015 things have gone quiet. Continue reading...
With an electorate of 140 million (the 5th largest worldwide) Brazil it is a prominent example of e-voting scalability...but how about security and verifiability? Continue reading...
85% of the electorate in Peru opted to use the electronic voting channel during the 2014 municipal elections, a successful rate of social acceptance for the solution provided. Continue reading...
The KMD demonstrates high trust towards the online voting supplier, Scytl, with a successful implementation of the pilots and by making source code public. Continue reading...
The Norwegian online voting paradigm is one of the most well organized ones that we have seen to date. According to the KMD the online voting pilot projects were executed as intended and the technology used performed as expected in terms of security and functionality. Continue reading...
When voters opt to vote, via any voting channel, they need to trust the administrators that run the election and oversee the transmission of the results, and it has never been a blind trust. This trust takes on an additional dimension when online voting and election processes are put in place. Maybe start by […] Continue reading...
There will always be different levels of trust expressed by social groups towards electoral results, be they traditional paper elections or innovative online elections. In principle, citizens will trust what they know from past experience and what they perceive well enough to comprehend. As such, developing citizen trust in the online voting process depends on […] Continue reading...
When analyzing the parameters and context of online voting, the third and probably the most important parameter to take into consideration is the social impact: the equation and balance of the advantages vs potential reservations. On one side of the equation, we find the advantages provided by a more accessible online voting channel.The clearest are […] Continue reading...
There are different trends and ways of defining the principal parameters and context of electronic voting. For the purposes of independent and comparable analysis, the four main factors which set the contextual environment for the deployment of online voting are: Existing legislation Evolving technology Social reservations Transparency and trust factors In this post […] Continue reading...
