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Voting modernisation pilots

Online voting 'Postnote' from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (May 2001) (pdf, 243KB)

In the Service of Democracy
A government consultation paper on UK policy for electronic democracy. There are further papers, including the reponses to In the Service..., on the government's e-democracy website

Response to the 'In the Service of Democracy' consultation
CCSR, De Montfort University

Implementing Electronic Voting in the UK (HTML, pdf and Word)
ODPM report.

Implementing Electronic voting in the UK: The legal issues

Implementing Electronic Voting in the UK: Technical Options Report
- a report from a project led by De Montfort University, aimed to identify the barriers to e-voting and to suggest ways of overcoming them. Sponsored by the UK Government (DTLR and Office of the E-Envoy), The Electoral Commission, the Improvement & Development Agency, the Local Government Association and the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE). Full report and summary available.

Elections in the 21st Century: from paper ballot to e-voting
A report from a commission of experts, sponsored by the Electoral Reform Society (February 2002).

Electoral Modernisation Pilots Statement of Requirements (ODPM) (pdf, 237KB)
Document issued to system suppliers in November 2002 in relation to the May 2003 local election pilots.

Modernising elections: A strategic evaluation of the 2002 electoral pilot schemes (2002) (pdf, 1.48MB)
A review of the 2002 pilots published by the Electoral Commission.

Piloting Alternative Voting Methods in the 2003 Local Elections in England
A Report from the Electoral Reform Society on the 2003 pilots (June 2003).

The Shape of Elections to Come
Report on the May 2003 pilot schemes across the UK (31 July 2003). Report and executive summary available, plus MORI survey and (soon) Scope accessibility report. This page also links to reports on each of the individual schemes. (all PDF)

The Government's Response to the Electoral Commissions' Report: The Shape of Elections to Come (September 2003) (pdf)

Electoral Commision's esponse to the Government consultation paper on Pilots in 2004 (November 2003)

Electoral pilots at the June 2004 elections (December 2003)
From the Electoral Commision.
Recommends not conducting e-voting pilots for the 2004 local and European elections, owing to increased complexity of proposed regional pilots and tight timescales.

Delivering Democracy?' - reports on 2004 all-postal voting pilots (August 2004)
From the electoral Commission.
The Commission has come down against running new all-postal voting schemes. Includes reports for each of the pilot regoins plus a report on accessibility prepared by Scope for the Commission.

Polls Apart accessibility reports
Reports covering all the electoral modernisation pilots held since 2000.

Elections and Electorate Engagement - official scrutiny report on the May 2000 Greater London Assembly elections, May 2002 (PDF and RTF versions). These elections included the use of electronic counting of ballots.

E-voting: Policy and Practice
A brief report on the e-voting panel jointly organised by IPPR and NMK

e-voting main page (for links to material about other countries)

Main Resources page.