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Citizen participation using electronic voting for decision making processes
Presentation at ESF TED WorkshopHelsinki, May, 20th 2004
Robert KrimmerUniversity of Linz,Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
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How come Electronic Voting has become such a
big issue, when it‘s just about counting 1 and 1?
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Overview
• What is E-Voting?
• Why is E-Voting interesting?
• How to preserve anonymity?
• The European experience
• Standardization efforts
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E-Governance
E-DemocracyE-Government
E-Participation E-VotingE-Administration
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Thin DemocracyThin Democracy(Information)
Strong Democracy(Feed Back & Consultation)
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+Citizen Participation
IT Support
Quick DemocracyQuick Democracy
(Participation)
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Instruments of E-Democracy
0 Technical Complexity
Political Process
(iii) Decision
(ii) Formation of an opinion
(i) Information acquisition
Infor- Uni- Bi- Trans- mation directional actional
Web-sites
E-Mail Chat
E-Voting
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What is E-Voting?
Local Remote
Paper-based
Polling station Postal Voting
Electronic Voting
Electronic Voting Machines
Internet Voting (RVEM)
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Why is E-Voting interesting?
• Elections are a major administrative work
require trained persons
• Election procedures are complex
counting may take multiple days
• More and more citizens are on the move
need for flexible registration schemes
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Uneqivocal identification of the Voter
With absolute anonymity at the point of casting the
vote and
No possibility for the election administration to
change votes or to break the anonymity.
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Basic Issues
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Solutions
• Preserving anonymity by hiding the vote: Homomorphism
Voter Server
Ballot Sheet(yes/no):
101101001011010000111000....sum yes/no
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Solutions
2. Preserving anonymity by hiding the voter: TAN
Voter ServerEnter TAN & Ballot sheet
Receives TAN by mail
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Solutions
3. Preserving anonymity by hiding the voter: Blind signature
• One-step procedures
• Two-step procedures
Election Day
Identification &Vote casting
Election Dayx days beforehand
(1) Identification (2) Vote casting
Voting token
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European Experience
• Switzerland – three pilots (referenda)
• Germany – pilots with public „non-political“ elections
• United Kingdom – large-scale pilots in 2002/03, none
in 2004
• France – CSFE, professional bodies etc.
• Spain – three tests (one from abroad)
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European Experience
• Ireland – frozen/postponed
• Netherlands – EP elections, from abroad
• Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic – drafts
• Estonia – legally binding e-voting
for regional elections
• Austria:
• two tests, one road-map: private initiatives
• Min/Int working group on e-voting
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Council of EuropeStandardization efforts
• started end of 2002
• 48 member countries
• aims: Council of Ministers Recommendation
legal, operational and technical standards
• more difficult than initially expected
• but: close co-operation / mutual understanding
between legal and technology experts
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Council of EuropeStandardization efforts
• minimum standards for legislation and
product requirements
• for member states and third parties (industry)
• broad and clear definitions
• focus on e-voting specificities
• no recommendation on usefulness / introduction
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Resume
• No unique trend towards electronic voting machines
or electronic voting via the Internet.
• Many experiments on local/institutional level
• Only few large-scale tests (UK, NL)
• Countries with frozen projects (B)
• Academic work with tests (D, A)
• CoE standardization efforts will drive development
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Citizen participation using electronic voting for decision making processesSlide 18
Contact
• Robert Krimmer
• University of Linz
• Institute for Informatics in Business and Government
• Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
• Institute for Information Processing, Information Economics and Process Management
• e-Mail: [email protected]