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Gov't rules out e-voting for 2009 elections
News The government do not plan to introduce e-voting for the 2009 European or local elections," he said. The way forward more generally on e-voting will be informed by the valuable experience gained from earlier pilots, analysis of the responses to the...
[October 27, 2008, 7:27]
Internet voting gets the Oxford blues
News Advocates and opponents of electronic voting locked horns in Oxford on Monday, at a debate about the thorny issue of e-elections. Many trials have been conducted in recent years, including in both this year's and last year's local elections in the UK.
[June 25, 2003, 13:21]
E-voting 'must be dropped'
News The Conservative Party has called for the government to drop any idea of e-voting in future elections In response to a parliamentary question from Heald in late August, Harriet Harman, minister at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, said the...
[September 8, 2005, 17:05]
E-voting flawed in London election, say campaigners
News At a Greater London Authority meeting on Thursday, called to examine issues around e-voting during the London mayoral elections, ORG representatives said that e-voting had potentially led to a miscount of votes.
[July 18, 2008, 16:24]
Digital rights group slams e-voting
News Digital rights activists have attacked the UK government over its plan to trial e-voting in the upcoming local elections. The government announced on Monday that it would be trialling several forms of e-voting in May's local elections.
[January 31, 2007, 12:15]
Report gives thumbs down to e-voting
News The Open Rights Group published a report on Wednesday that includes scathing criticisms of the way e-voting and e-counting proceeded at a number of sites during the local government elections last month.
[June 22, 2007, 9:16]
UK's first online voters go to the polls
News An e-voting trial being held this weekend will let people cast their votes online for next month's local elections. The UK local elections are scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May, but voting in these two wards has been brought forward.
[April 26, 2002, 16:25]
Government dismisses call to halt e-voting
News Describing this view as premature, the government said it needed more information about the use of "proprietary machines, off-the-shelf solutions, auto-adjudication of ballots and the use of e-counting at different types of elections".
[November 13, 2007, 10:24]
Electronic Voting Is Audit free!
Blog Comment ORG considers that the problems observed and difficulties scrutinising results delivered by e-counting systems bring their suitability for statutory elections into question. This makes public scrutiny impossible, and leaves statutory elections open...
[October 22, 2008, 13:44]
Government seeks views on e-democracy
News This money will be used to support e-voting, including funding a number of trials into e-voting in local elections. Several e-voting trials took place in the UK's local elections in May this year. One reason why many politicians are keen on e...
[July 16, 2002, 16:13]
Government to push e-voting
News A total of 30 councils held e-voting trials in this year's local elections, including St Albans, which let constituents vote online, by phone, by post or by using an electronic terminal at a polling station.
[October 7, 2002, 14:36]
Digital TV to play e-voting role
News The interactive TV trial is one of many e-voting experiments taking place in May's local elections, and it has a particular focus on improving turnout. E-voting trials were held in last year's local elections, and while they were a technological...
[April 17, 2003, 15:43]
Hacking fears hit e-voting plans
News The Irish government planned to introduce e-voting at local and European elections in June 2004 but was forced to abandon this when a report from the country's Independent Commission on Electronic Voting raised doubts over the accuracy of the...
[February 7, 2005, 15:50]
Local elections to pilot mobile and Internet voting
News In response to the e-envoy's push for Internet democracy last October, the non-governmental organisation insisted that Britain is nowhere near ready for the implementation of online voting for public elections.
[February 7, 2002, 15:45]
Cook reveals hopes for Internet general election
News In response to the e-envoy's push for Internet democracy last October, the non-governmental organisation insisted that Britain is nowhere near ready for the implementation of online voting for public elections.
[January 7, 2002, 12:17]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News Early elections may dodge any online attacks because the number of potential voters will initially be small, according to the security experts. However, early successes could lead to widespread adoption of the system, which would eventually leave...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
E-commerce minister proposes online voting
News The DTLR has invited a number of county councils to submit proposals for online and telephone voting by Christmas, which will be piloted in the 2002 local elections. There has been a lot of experience in online voting for private elections, but to...
[October 26, 2001, 7:30]
E-voting harbours 'major security problems'
News Mercuri also showed data that indicated that the latest touch-screen voting machines don't perform significantly better in elections. With the error rate we are seeing in elections, in any other scientific discipline, you would have a 'do over...
[July 30, 2004, 13:55]
E-voting gets technology thumbs-up
News The e-voting trial held in St Albans last week has been hailed as a success, although it doesn't appear that the initiative encouraged many more voters to take part in the local elections. Lovelady believes that more testing should now be done into...
[May 3, 2002, 18:04]
Digital rights group: E-voting fit only for X Factor
News This comes the day after the government rejected the Electoral Commission's recommendation that it should pull back from testing the technology in elections until a full electoral modernisation framework has been developed.
[November 14, 2007, 14:19]
