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26. February 2010 – 10:32 by E-Voting.CC
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Today, on Friday 26th of February, the extended deadline for paper submission for the EVOTE2010 conference is due! The last chance to submit you scientific papers and participate in our renowned issue of our fourth issue of the International Conference on E-Voting - EVOTE2010.
The conference will take place from July 21st to July 24th in Bregenz at the beautiful lake Constance.
We are looking forward to another highly international and very interesting event!
Daniel Botz - E-Voting.CC
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16. February 2010 – 15:01 by E-Voting.CC
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In response to the large number of requests from the community, the organizing committee of the 4th Electronic Voting Conference EVOTE2010 decided to extend the deadline for submission of papers by two weeks from Friday February 12 to Friday February 26, 2010.
Please find further information, templates and the call for papers here.
I hope this helps to finish your papers in time!
Daniel Botz, E-Voting.CC
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25. June 2009 – 15:03 by E-Voting.CC
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Earlier I have written about the Student Union elections of May 2009 which were Austria’s first use of a legally binding electronic voting system.
The E-Voting system required the students to authenticate themselves using a citizen card. In Austria this “citizen card function” is included in the social security card, which is called e-card. The e-card was launched in March 2005 in order to modernize the old fashioned system of legitimizing the citizen’s status in front of doctors via the paper version of the “Krankenschein”.
The e-card has since then been issued 8.5 million times according to the official website. 11.151 partners accept the e-card in doctor’s practices all over Austria and it has been used 405 million times for this purpose. But the e-card is much more than a tool for more efficient social security administration. Read the rest of this entry »
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24. June 2009 – 16:30 by E-Voting.CC
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The Austrian Expatriate World Council was founded in 1952 aiming to coordinate the various existing associations of Austrian citizens living abroad. Its primary function is to represent its members in front of the Austrian federal government, public authorities, political parties and relevant departments in the economic and cultural field. It is governing body of over 170 associations and has several thousand members.
The organization has now again, as in previous years, made an effort to research its members’ needs. From the beginning of March until April 20th an anonymous online survey has been conducted to find a better understanding for these needs and to communicate them to the Austrian Foreign Ministry.
The Austrian Federal Computing Centre (BRZ) was in charge of designing, setting up and implementing the online platform. The survey consisted of ten themes related to which e-Government and e-Participation services expats want from Austria. Three of them were to be picked as a choice, an own suggestion could also be added. The answers were weighted, points were given according to the relative importance. The themes were:
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18. May 2009 – 16:17 by E-Voting.CC
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Today at 08:00 am the first legally binding electronic election in Austrian history went online! The Austrian Federal Student Union is being elected starting today morning and running until Friday via a remote electronic channel. Next week from Tuesday the 26th until Thursday the 28th of May an ordinary, paper based voting channel will be opened to ensure.
The paper and the electronic votes will be counted on the 28th and hence the result should be available around Thursday evening.
The voting system was programmed by the Spanish E-Voting specialist Scytl and is hosted at the Austrian Federal Computation Center. The Austrian Ministry of Science and Research is the initiator, Robert Krimmer from E-Voting.CC is consulting the implementation process.
The going online of the voting system this morning went as planned. A minor problem although occurred with the Intranet connection at the BRZ but this was quickly solved and did in no way affect the voting system itself.
We are glad and also a bit proud, that this project is now successfully in the “delivery phase”, we hope everything will keep running smoothly!
Daniel Botz, E-Voting.CC
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31. January 2009 – 14:42 by E-Voting.CC
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The Austrian student union elections of May 2009 are planned to be the first binding elections to be held via an electronic voting channel in Austria. After the E-Voting tests for these student elections in 2003 and for the presidential elections of 2004, the upcoming elections will have binding character.
Back in 2000 the student union, represented by Martin Faißt at that time, requested a channel for distance voting from the minister in charge. On February 1st the law has been changed accordingly after a parliamentary decision. Due to the fact that the citizens cards were non existent at that time, a scientific group has been founded in order to prepare E-Voting test elections, which were held in 2003 and 2004 as mentioned above.
Now an E-Voting channel will be realized during the election which are scheduled for May 2009. Students who reside abroad or have to work in other regions of Austria will have the opportunity to vote via this online channel. According to the student union act a working group was founded which is lead by the Ministry of Science. The system will be programmed by the Spanish election software specialist Scytl, it will be hosted by the Austrian Federal Computing Centre (BRZ). The electronic internet voting channel will be opened one week before the paper election period in order to minimize the risk of failure on a single day.
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7. January 2009 – 17:27 by E-Voting.CC
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E-Voting.CC is currently working on a recent project to publish a magazine for the e-democracy community. The first issue of the magazine will deal with e-democracy in general, further issues will deal with e-voting in detail, e-participation projects and much more. The magazine will be distributed for free by post twice a year.
We will also include short news, detailed news, project news, recent developments and articles. We would be glad to get your input regarding projects and recent developments in the field.
Should you be interested in enrolling in our subscription list or should you want to contribute to our magazine, please send us an email (office@e-voting.cc) with your postal data, name and your email address.
We wish you a happy new year and we’ll inform you as soon as the magazine is available.
Daniel Botz, E-Voting.CC
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5. December 2008 – 13:59 by E-Voting.CC
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On Wednesday 3rd December from 9 am to 5 pm an enquete was held in “Palais Harrach” in Vienna. It’s topic was “A Chance for Political Participation through New Media”. The enquete was organized by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF), which initiated a project this year to open an E-Voting channel for students who cannot attend the student union elections physically.
These elections are scheduled for May 2009. The aim of this “one-day-conference” was to provide a platform for discussion between Austrian and international stakeholders.
This goal was truly achieved as the discussion was intense and also quite controversial. Representatives of the student union and also private persons criticized amongst others that E-Voting would open new ways for manipulation and possible electoral fraud. Some have also questioned whether the voting principles of the free and secret vote could be assured using E-Voting. There also were voices, for example Heinz Mayer’s, who is Professor for administrative law, who stated that postal voting would pose similar questions. In his opinion the step towards postal voting has been the wrong signal.
On the contrary there were experts who spoke in favour of an electronic voting channel for this election. Minister Hahn, who called the conference, said it is necessary to innovate voting, facing a globalized future. Pippa Norris, from Harvard University, found evidence in her latest research that the rate of media usage and the rate of openness to new cultures are strongly connected. Peter Filzmaier, a renowned Austrian political scientist, outlined the differing views of proponents and opponents and stated that an additional electronic voting channel would, in his opinion, account for our global societies’ needs for more mobility.
Robert Krimmer from E-Voting.CC gave an overview about the E-Voting project and explained its planned outline: The Internet voting channel will be available during the week before the paper voting. Authentication shall be established via a signature card - The BMWF sponsors 10.000 card readers for students who activate the citizens card function on their “e-card”, which is a card used in healthcare. There shall be no re-votation possibility and once a voter has decided to vote electronically, the paper vote is prohibited, but of course everybody has the free choice to use whatever channel.
The project is in an advanced planning phase, the implementation will commence at the beginning of the year. The slides of the presentation are available here.
There also were several other experts of great interdisciplinary scope who contributed to this enquete, for details please visit the link to the enquete above.
In the afternoon there were three workshops dealing with the topics:
- “Citizens card as key for participation”
- “Technical solutions for E-Voting” and
- “Juridical aspects of E-Democracy”
In a wrap up session the conclusions of these workshops were drawn, although the most controversial was the third one dealing with E-Democracy, which has been drafted above.
All in all it was an interesting enquete which contributed to the Austrian discussion about the topic.
Daniel Botz, E-Voting.CC
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