An e-voting primer

An e-voting primerJason Kitcat

Managing Director, Swing Digitalwww.swingdigital.com

•Why is voting important?

•The two main types of e-voting

•E-voting’s hopes & achievements

•Arguments for & against e-voting

•Voter verifiability

Jason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

Jason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

polling place e-voting

remote e-voting

Jason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

Jason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

•Accurately record voter intention

•Secure

•Private

•Verifiable

•Reliable

•ScalableJason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

Why bother?

What does e-voting hope to achieve?

or

Jason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

•Turnout

•Modernity

•Speed of count

•Election costs

•Fraud

•Lack of scrutiny

•Free & Secret ballot

•Vendor lock-in

•Usability

•Murphy’s LawJason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

Jason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

www.free-project.org/resolution/

Jason Kitcat, j-dom.orgAn e-voting Primer, 2004

Jason Kitcat

Swing Digitalonline community consultancy

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