Election expert team to follow internet voting in Norway

Election expert team to follow internet voting in Norway

The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) deployed an election expert team to Norway on 27 June 2011 to follow a pilot project on new voting technologies (NVT) that was put in place for the forthcoming 12 September municipal elections.

View the source code and other materials related to Norway’s internet voting pilot project

Norway intends to use NVT in 10 municipalities, where voters will be able to vote remotely or via the Internet. Voters will also be given the option of voting using traditional ballots. --->>>

Elections Ontario offers more options for voters

Elections Ontario offers more options for voters

Election Ontario announced Monday that for the 40th provincial election, voters will get 29 days to vote, much longer than any other occasion to improve voter participation. --->>>

NLRB Judge: SEIU, Kaiser Colluded to Influence Union Vote

NLRB Judge: SEIU, Kaiser Colluded to Influence Union Vote

The National Labor Relations Board has recommended the cancellation of the results of an election last year between two unions to represent 43,000 employees in California’s largest hospital chain, Kaiser Permanente. The giant Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, beat out the much smaller breakaway National Union of Health Workers, or NUHW, in a bitterly contest race. But a National Labor Relations Board judge has now ruled SEIU was guilty of misconduct and collusion with Kaiser Permanente to influence the vote’s outcome. --->>>

Tallinn Calls in Expert to Denounce E-Voting

Tallinn Calls in Expert to Denounce E-Voting

Yesterday, July 20, the City of Tallinn bolstered its drive to bar the nation's much-touted e-voting system from local elections, holding a press conference where prominent US computer scientist Barbara Simons said that such systems are inherently vulnerable. --->>>

Australia, NSW: Electronic voting hailed as success

Electronic voting hailed as success

A NEW electronic voting system at the NSW state election has been declared highly successful, with four times as many people using the technology than the NSW Electoral Commission hoped.

The iVote system was introduced to help people with a disability or who found it difficult to get to a ballot box, by enabling them to vote via the internet or over the phone. --->>>

Study shows voter turnout can be increased with simple word change

Study shows voter turnout can be increased with simple word change

A new study by social psychologist Christopher Bryan and his colleagues at Stanford University shows just how easily people can be manipulated using their own vanity; by doing nothing more than changing the word "vote," to "voter," on a survey, Bryan et al, have demonstrated that it's possible to increase voter turnout in real-world elections. The team has published their results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. --->>>

Official Pushes for Online Military Voting

Official Pushes for Online Military Voting

The director of the program that helps troops vote from overseas says a full embrace of Internet voting for servicemembers would help get more votes counted. --->>>

Diebold Named Best Information Technology Company in Brazil in Its Industry Segment by Exame Magazine

Diebold Named Best Information Technology Company in Brazil in Its Industry Segment by Exame Magazine

Diebold, Incorporated's (NYSE: DBD) Brazilian operation has recently been named the best information technology (IT) company in the "digital industry" segment by Brazil's Exame Magazine in its 38th edition of "The Biggest and the Best." Other companies considered for this recognition included: IBM, HP, Totvs, Itautec, Scopus, Positivo and CPM. --->>>

Oscar's move to online voting is off and running.

Oscar's move to online voting is off and running.

The Academy confirms that a very impressive 83% of the membership had returned cards requesting their email address by the deadline date of June 30 ... --->>>

Maharashtra - Citizens to decide fate of e-voting before civic polls

Citizens to decide fate of e-voting before civic polls

Even as tenders have been invited for creating the online portal and supporting data systems to enable e-voting in the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections in February next year, the process will be finalised only after citizens give their go-ahead. --->>>

Sick, grumpy staff a headache for Elections Canada in May vote

Sick, grumpy staff a headache for Elections Canada in May vote

Elections Canada scrambled to staff dozens of polling stations across Canada on May 2 when the people it hired called in sick, slept late, took unauthorized meal breaks — or quit in a huff over working conditions. --->>>

Russians abroad to vote via electronic devices

Russians abroad to vote via electronic devices

December 4 will see parliamentary elections in Russia. However, Russian citizens who are now living and working abroad will also have a possibility to vote.

On December 4, polling stations will open in all countries with which Russia has diplomatic relations. For the first time, they will be equipped with a technical novelty - electronic devices which will ease the procedure of voting and calculating the votes. --->>>

Lessons From Estonia: Preparing for a Major Cyberattack

Lessons From Estonia: Preparing for a Major Cyberattack

In the spring of 2007, Estonia became the first nation to face a coordinated, nationwide cyberattack when a series of electronic bombardments struck down media, telecommunications, government, and banking websites. Digital traffic from servers as far away as Peru, Vietnam, and the United States flooded Estonian websites, drowning them in superfluous data. --->>>

India: Maha EC to use hologram in EVMs to ensure safety

Maha EC to use hologram in EVMs to ensure safety

Maharashtra State Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan today said holograms will be pasted on the electronic voting machines (EVMs) to ensure their safety and prevent them from any kind of tampering. The state election commission has received complaints from various political parties about the vulnerability of the EVMs, she said. "As a security measure, holograms will be pasted on EVMs which will have a unique code. And it cannot be duplicated, is non-cloneable nor can it be tampered," Satyanarayan told reporters here. --->>>

Voter apathy may signal failing party system, professor suggests

Voter apathy may signal failing party system, professor suggests

... Brian Tanguay, a political science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University who has studied electoral reform in Canada, says he isn’t surprised by the numbers and says it’s a sign of a “general disillusionment” with the party system. --->>>

Globe Editorial: Apathy is overrated

Globe Editorial: Apathy is overrated

... Electronic voting, which has worked well in some Canadian municipal elections, would essentially eliminate the reasons – or excuses – of a wide-ranging united alternative of electoral abstainers. In other words, if one adds up “too busy,” “out of town/away,” “own illness or disability,” “too difficult or transportation problem” and “weather conditions,” the sum is an impressive 45.5 per cent – when that same percentage is found among those who actually do vote, that’s enough for a majority government. --->>>

Kenya: 2012 could be an electronic voting year

The country may next year start full scale electronic voting after a team of international consultants arrived in Nairobi to assist in developing a master plan for e-voting in line with the Constitution.

The team from IBM's Corporate Service Corps Programme will volunteer their expertise for the next four weeks after which they will present findings and a plan to the government.

"IBM is partnering with the Government of Kenya to propose a framework that addresses Kenyan voting challenges," said IBM Country General Manager Anthony Mwai. --->>>

Canada: Reasons for not voting in the May 2, 2011 federal election

Reasons for not voting in the May 2, 2011 federal election

More than one-quarter of the 7.5 million eligible voters who reported they did not cast a ballot in the May 2, 2011 federal election indicated they did not do so because they were not interested in voting. Another 23% said they were too busy to vote. --->>>

Australia: WA to develop voting application for vision impaired

WA to develop voting application for vision impaired

The WA Electoral Commission (WAEC) has flagged plans to develop a computer-based application to grant blind and vision-impaired voters the ability to cast a secret vote at the next state election. --->>>