Resources > voting and e-voting user experience: Europe

Voting and electronic voting (e-voting) user experience material, including design, usability, accessibility and security aspects (including verified voting) of both old and new technologies.

Let me know of initiatives or research in other parts of the world that you don't find listed here.

UK resources are on a separate page.

return to main e-voting page for access to information about other countries.

Research

Oostveen, Anne-Marie and Peter van den Besselar (2004) Internet voting technologies and civic participation : the users perspective

Oostveen, Anne-Marie and Peter van den Besselaar (2004) Security as belief. User’s perceptions on the security of electronic voting systems

This site also includes a range of other papers on e-voting by Anne-Marie Oostveen, a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services.

Regional listing:

Denmark

Danes to experiment with e-vote in EP election (EU Observer, August 2003)

Estonia

Estonia set for online elections (Guardian, March 2001)

European Union

EU CyberVote project
The project is now over, but the materials and reports remain on the website.

EU CyberVote project reports

E-voting in Europe
Information about and papers from this 2004 workshop held in Austria.

France

France: Results of French Internet voting trial considered as encouraging (Europa, 12 June 2003)

French Internet Rights Forum: report and e-voting recommendations for the French government (September 2003)
and an English translation of this report. (November 2003)
In an extensive report, the French Internet Rights Forum has come down against the introduction of e-voting, and in particular remote Internet voting for statutory elections.

Ireland

Demo of Irish machines

Ireland: Elections I - source in the open - an article about the non-availability of electronic voting system source code in Ireland.

Ireland: Electronic Voting in Ireland - opposition to the e-voting scheme in Ireland, as currently implemented, from Margaret McGaley. The site contains her undergraduate dissertation on e-voting (Electronic Voting: A Safety Critical System) as well as many links to Irish and other e-voting sites.

Ireland: Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting

Ireland: Labour Party - Electronic Voting in Ireland: A threat to democracy?

Irish Computer Society calls for audit trail in e-voting system (ICS, 3 March 2004)
Statement from Michael O'Duffy, Chairman of the Public Policy Committee of the Irish Computer Society and Chief Executive of the Centre for Software Engineering.

Cullen rules out use of e-voting in June (30 April 2004) - coverage from RTE News of the Irish government's decision not to proceed with e-voting with the local and European elections on 11 June 2004, following an adverse report from the Irish Independent Commission on Electronic Voting.

Roche admits changes to e-voting are needed (The Irish Times, 20 October 2004, paying subscription required) See my blog post for extracts.

[Thanks to Margaret McGaley for regular updates on the situation in Ireland.]

Netherlands

Dutch e-voting software goes open source (The Register, 23 June 2004).

Electronic voting in the Netherlands - a resource from Wolter Pieters, University of Nijmegen.

Electronic and Internet Voting in the Netherlands - a resource from Joe Kiniry of the Nijmegen Institute for Computing and Information Science. [Thanks to Jason Kitcat]

Remote e-voting in the Netherlands (Dutch Ministry of the Interior)

Spain

Spain: Elecciones en Euskadi - some information on electronic voting in the Basque Country of Spain (Spanish/Basque/French/English).

The Spanish government's electoral website is no more than an electronic reproduction of its legal texts, though there do appear to be projects afoot e.g. press report of an electronic voting project in the Spanish town of Jun (El Mundo, 21 August 2003).

Switzerland

Switzerland: Page d'information sur le e-vote à Genève - information about the Swiss situation and other resources, in French.

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