Resources > voting and e-voting user experience: rest of world

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

Of particular interest are the systems in place in India and Brazil.

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

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International

Electoral Commissions around the world

Argentina

Argentines to Get the E-vote (Wired, August 2003)

Australia

Australian Electoral Commission e-voting status report (PDF, 336KB)

Brazil

Brazil system demo - this is a JavaScript simulation, in Portuguese.

Electronic Voting Systems - Is Brazil ahead of its time? Short paper by Professor Pedro A. D. Rezende, University of Brasilia (July 2003)
This has now been republished by RSA in the autumn 2004 edition of CryptoBytes.

For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule (Wired, January 2004) - the usual Wired upbeat tech determinism

Votoseguro
A variety of resources in Portuguese.

Canada

The report Technology and the Voting Process (1998) was prepared for the Canadian government by KPMG/Sussex Circle.

Is the future in line or online? (Toronto Star, 12 July 2004)

Paper Vote Canada
A blog addressing Canada and North America generally.

Chile

Chilean government's electoral website (in Spanish)

Costa Rica

Costa Rica -including material on electronic pilot - 6 documents (in Spanish).

India

India: Gearing up for India's electronic election (February 2004)

Election Commission of India: site includes slide series showing photographs of the equipment being used for the April-May 2004 elections. Of particular interest is the button that allows irreverible shutdown in the case of the polling station being taken over: this measure has, however, proved useless in the 2004 elections, with machines in 'hijacked' polling stations continuing to function, according to press reports.

675 million Indian citizens to vote electronically in forthcoming elections - report on the EU website, with some information about the voting machines.

The Bombay Ballot (Slate, 29 September 2004)
Compares US and Indian experiences.

Kazakhstan

Election progress in Kazakhstan slowed due to lack of transparency, observers report (OSCE news release, 20 September 2004)

Korea

Korea mandates e-voting by 2005 - the new system will apparently be on trial from 2004.

Peru

Peruvian government's electoral website (in Spanish)

Venezuela

Analysis of voting data from Venezuela referendum - data analysis from Princeton and Johns Hopkins academics (2004).

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