The Natick Town Meeting in Massachusetts has recently approved the use of electronic voting to facilitate decision making during its legislative sessions. According to Rich Sidney, Chairman of the Electronic Voting Study Committee, the system would cost about $12,000 per
Mark Malloch-Brown: It’s time to modernise the UK voting system
The Huffington Post UK published an op-ed authored by our Chairman Mark Malloch-Brown. In the piece, he writes about the recent general elections in the UK, stressing the need to modernise voting processes, and points at technology as the perfect
New Mexico could implement biometric voter registration
Regardless of how well an election appears to be run or how neat the voting process goes for each constituent, people must have a great deal of confidence that the integrity of the election and its results are suitably upheld.
British researchers developed a new security device for electronic voting
A new security device for electronic voting could be ready to use by the 2020 or 2025 general elections in the UK. Taking inspiration from the security devices issued by some banks, a security and privacy research group at Birmingham,
Electronic voting would strengthen democracy in the UK
According to an article published by Mary Dejevsky, editor in chief of The Independent, the success of electronic registration should encourage the Parliament to adopt electronic voting for future elections. Dejevsky highlights that electronic voting has been implemented in India
Electronic voting promotes community participation in local governments
The small town of Andover in North America is a leader in terms of citizen participation in local government. However, town meeting voters still use some form of manual voting in community assemblies. Aware that modern technology may change that