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Online voting could be answer to electorate apathy
News Some local councils have already dabbled in online polling and Forrester analyst Caroline Sceats believes some form of national e-voting will be in place by the next election. It has to be clear that people are only voting once and that they are...
[June 6, 2001, 16:18]
Online voting can't be trusted on standard PCs
News Gartner believes that until trustable computing platforms are widely available in standard PCs, online voting will require significant investment in additional security methods (such as smart cards or "portable sandboxes") to maintain the...
[March 8, 2004, 11:35]
E-commerce minister proposes online voting
News The e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander yesterday (Thursday) announced his intention to make online voting a reality within the UK. Speaking at a conference at Wilton Park in Sussex, Alexander voiced his support for online voting as a means of...
[October 26, 2001, 7:30]
E-voting source code posted online
News VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, published the source code for its product online in hopes of garnering additional analysis of its method for verifying the integrity of electronic votes.
[April 7, 2004, 10:55]
Online elections get a step closer
News A key standard for online voting is to be released later this month, according to the director of technology strategy in the e-envoy's office, Anwar Choudhury. The release of the XML election schema, which will provide a consistent way for data...
[March 12, 2002, 14:40]
Cook reveals hopes for Internet general election
News Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, Robin Cook unveiled his plans for Britain to become one of the first countries to introduce online voting for general elections. Online voting has never been used for a public election in the UK.
[January 7, 2002, 12:17]
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]
Internet voting gets stamp of approval
News In addition to the online voting option, Michigan residents could vote in person or through the mail. The only US presidential contest in 2004 to use Internet voting was completed without a hitch, the Michigan Democratic Party said on Monday.
[February 10, 2004, 10:30]
Could Internet voting have saved the day?
News It's not just electoral pundits that are interested in the idea of online voting, either. Online voting was even tried out for the US presidential election by a one Web site, Votehere.net, which ran a pilot scheme in California and Arizona.
[November 9, 2000, 13:17]
New ICANN head promises greater openness
News ICANN has been criticised for ending the practise of online voting to elect board members. Formerly there was a process of online voting, but in the view of the committee it probably hadn't worked as well as it could have," said Twomey.
[March 20, 2003, 10:58]
Internet voting gets the Oxford blues
News Advocates of digital democracy say that e-voting -- whether online, by mobile phone or at electronic kiosks in supermarkets and pubs -- will increase democratic participation by making it easier for citizens to make their electoral choice.
[June 25, 2003, 13:21]
ZDNet interviews the e-Minister: Part III
News That bill will also allow online voting. It will modernise the voting system, allow for Sunday voting, voting in supermarkets. The government has pledged to get all government services online by 2008.
[February 21, 2000, 10:29]
Korea mandates e-voting by 2005
News People most likely to support e-voting lie in the 25 to 34 age group, have an income in excess of A$80,000 (£33,086) with Internet access at home and familiarity with online payment solutions. Korea will be the first country in Asia to introduce an...
[August 18, 2003, 9:50]
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]
E-envoy tells government to lay off the Net
News In the local elections in May, the government experimented with flexible voting as part of its plan to introduce voting online in the future. Allan admits the technology is not yet sophisticated enough to support full online voting.
[June 28, 2000, 12:18]
Government seeks views on e-democracy
News The UK government has launched a public consultation into e-democracy that could result in the widespread implementation of voting via the Internet or by mobile phone. This document lays out the government's proposed e-democracy strategy, and is...
[July 16, 2002, 16:13]
eBay must face facts about fraud
Leader Implementing two-factor authentication would be costly for eBay to implement, and until customers start voting with their feet it's not going to happen. Given that kind of ultimatum, surely it's time to start voting?
[May 5, 2005, 15:30]
Electronic government not to be confused with online
News In an interview with ZDNet News, e-Minister Patricia Hewitt claimed that the Representation of the People bill, currently going through Parliament, will introduce online voting. It will also introduce online voting," she said.
[February 22, 2000, 15:03]
E-voting 'risks fraud'
News Four computer security experts have warned proponents of Internet voting that such systems cannot be secured against fraud. The experts -- three computer science professors and a former IBM researcher -- said on Wednesday that creating an e-voting...
[January 22, 2004, 7:15]
Vote-swapping site aims to defeat Tories
News Online voting has long been touted as a way of increasing democracy but to date all governments have shied away from implementing it, claiming the security risks are too high. Users wishing to vote tactically are registered on the site -- www...
[April 19, 2001, 8:04]
