For years, Spain has been considering the possibility of adopting e-voting by running test runs; the first one in 1995, and after that, in the cities of Castellon, Ceuta, Huesca, and Merida in 2011.
Although no decision has been made to proceed with the adoption of e-voting, last May, during the municipal elections, Spain implemented some technology to help the administration of 3,200 polling stations in 22 municipalities.
Jorge Fernandez Diaz, Minister of Home Affairs, deemed the experience as very positive and pointed out how technology improved the management of electoral processes in the polling stations where it was implemented. He made sure to clarify that the system implemented was “not an e-voting system, but a system for speeding up the management of the electoral process, using technology to improve it without compromising its integrity.”
Each polling station was equipped with laptop computers, a GPRS modem, electronic ID card readers, printers, and an SD card with the electoral roll.
The identity of voters was verified automatically by validating the ID in an electronic device.
The use of technological support at the polling stations was considered a first step towards transitioning from manual to electronic voting.
Source: https://digitalvote.wordpress.com/