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Web Site for Greek Elections Attracts Over 150 Million Hits
White Papers The Ministry of Interior in Athens wanted to improve its results service for voters in the 2002 municipal and prefectural elections. Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Delta Singular provided not only results via the Internet but also via SMS...
[August 10, 2007, 11:12]
Local elections to pilot mobile and Internet voting
News Thirty local councils will be piloting new voting technology at local and mayoral elections in May. Voters in Liverpool and Sheffield will be the first to trial text message and digital TV voting in this year's local elections.
[February 7, 2002, 15:45]
Online elections get a step closer
News The release of the XML election schema, which will provide a consistent way for data used in online voting to be described, will forge the way for people to vote online in general elections. A key standard for online voting is to be released later...
[March 12, 2002, 14:40]
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]
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]
Government to push e-voting
News The UK government is calling on councils to conduct electronic voting trials in the next local elections, which will take place in May 2003. A total of 30 councils held e-voting trials in this year's local elections, including St Albans, which let...
[October 7, 2002, 14:36]
Electronic Voting Is Audit free!
Blog Comment The end result was the Electoral Commission’s report into the London Elections called for the Greater London Returning Officer to carry out a cost benefit analysis of options for counting ballot papers at the 2012 elections "as a matter of urgency...
[October 23, 2008, 7:55]
Hackers insert 'Pink Grandfather Party' into Indonesian election
News Fictitious political factions turned up as forerunners in Indonesia's heated elections, thanks to hacker antics over the weekend. The General Elections Commission (KPU) has confirmed its official Web site, which shows the progress of the country's...
[April 20, 2004, 9:35]
Instituto Electoral del Estado de Guanajuato Ensures Compliance and Transparency in Electoral Processes
White Papers Instituto Electoral del Estado de Guanajuato (IEEG) manages representative, governor and municipal elections in the 46 municipalities in Guanajuato. The challenge was to integrate a constant flow of information during elections in 800 locations...
[November 3, 2007, 0:00]
Arab news site suffers outages
Talkback I represent Kurdish independent opinion outside the main two parties and would like to say that the elections are designed to keep those already in power for 14 years there without any opposition. British democracy is the oonlky way the Kurds and...
[January 15, 2005, 12:45]
Online presidential ads a certainty
News Political insiders say online advertising will have a significant impact on the 2000 presidential elections -- which could result in a multimillion-dollar bonanza for portal sites, particularly America Online.
[February 8, 1999, 11:29]
Teacamp
Blog Comment @Roger: The Open Rights Group is currently working on their report into the 2008 elections, having had a team of officially-accredited elections observers in the electronic count centres and in polling stations during election day.
[June 23, 2008, 14:30]
Electoral Commission attacks election e-counting
News The Electoral Commission has expressed concerns over the electronic counting of votes in London's recent elections. Among the issues highlighted in a report on the elections for the mayor and the London Assembly are apparent discrepancies between...
[August 4, 2008, 11:32]
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]
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. According to the Open Rights Group (ORG), the technology "threatens the integrity of our elections".
[January 31, 2007, 12:15]
Electoral Commission hopes for email voting next year
News The chairman of the Electoral Commission revealed on Sunday that Internet voting could be a reality for local council elections next May. Speaking on Radio 5's Sunday Service, Sam Younger, chairman, expressed his optimism that the British public...
[April 30, 2001, 15:41]
Mafia use 3G phones for election scam
News Italian Mafia bosses have been thwarted in their ingenious attempts to use video phones to rig parliamentary elections. Regional elections will take place in Italy on 25 May The latest generation of mobile phones boast video streaming functionality...
[May 16, 2003, 15:52]
Government 'has no timetable' for e-voting
News The government will not use electronic voting technology in local elections this year because of concerns about security. The Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) has just announced electoral modernisation pilots to take place at 16 local...
[February 15, 2006, 13:55]
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 flawed in London election, say campaigners
News The mayoral elections were won by Conservative candidate Boris Johnson. 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...
[July 18, 2008, 16:24]
