E-voting firms fight bad press
News The newly constituted Election Technology Council pledged to establish a code of ethics for its members, a series of recommendations for standards and certification, and a review of best practices for security.
[December 10, 2003, 11:00]
Local elections to pilot mobile and Internet voting
News The modernisation plans build on local election pilots trialled in 2000, and pave the way towards the introduction of e-voting in the UK. The government hopes that an e-enabled general election could be a reality after 2006.
[February 7, 2002, 15:45]
Government 'has no timetable' for e-voting
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister had been planning trials of SMS and Internet voting this year with a view to the technology being used in the next general election but cancelled a tender inviting IT suppliers to bid for the projects after...
[February 15, 2006, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He also stood for the local council, but since he was Labour he got in (it works that way in Newham: it's not an election, it's a fiefdom). Stephen Timms MP hails from East Ham, a place I know well and, in another life, somewhere I stood as a local...
[May 31, 2002, 11:19]
Electoral Commission hopes for email voting next year
News The Electoral Reform Commission is unwilling to even consider it an option for the next general election in four years' time, but hopes that different electronic systems will be piloted in that period.
[April 30, 2001, 15:41]
Do we need a second Internet?
News While it may be improbable that cyberspace be seriously disrupted, or that a war in cyberspace can occur, the improbable happens -- as it did in our election," he said. This idea may be ridiculed and is out there.but we need to bifurcate cyberspace...
[December 11, 2000, 9:33]
Political apathy maintained online
News With a general election perhaps weeks away, the study says MPs and legislatures are failing to take advantage of new forms of communication to combat voter apathy. Online politics is yet to capture the attention of the nation despite widespread use...
[February 25, 2005, 9:40]
IT implicated in voting-forms delay
News Hundreds of council staff are now on standby to hand out voting forms amid fears that if the deadline is missed the election could be open to legal challenges in some areas. Never mind e-voting, technology is struggling to cope with the UK's postal...
[June 1, 2004, 12:25]
E-voting gets technology thumbs-up
News The count was started just after 9pm on Thursday 2 May, and was completed by 9.06pm -- significantly faster than a traditional election count. It doesn't appear, though, that the chance to take part in e-voting persuaded many more people to take...
[May 3, 2002, 18:04]
Government to push e-voting
News The UK government has committed £30m to fund e-voting trials over the next three years, with the intention of holding an e-enabled general election sometime after 2006. As ZDNet UK reported, although the St Albans trial was a technological success...
[October 7, 2002, 14:36]
Digital rights group slams e-voting
News Electronic scanning technology to count ballot papers (Bedford, Breckland, Dover, South Bucks, Stratford-on-Avon District Council and Warwick District Council) According to the Open Rights Group (ORG), the technology "threatens the integrity of our...
[January 31, 2007, 12:15]
