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May 17th, 2003
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Series of articles on Britain’s experiments with e-voting

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/0,12767,866760,00.html

[Whole series of articles on Britain’s e-government initiative. -Thomas]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/comment/0,12767,939004,00.html

[Cites concerns from various technical folk, German suspicion of vote-selling. -Thomas]

E-vote early, e-vote often?

Last week, the government unveiled an ambitious new e-voting pilot scheme. But does the technology really work? Matthew Tempest and Martin Nicholls report

Thursday April 17, 2003

Contain yourselves, but more people will have more ways of voting in England’s May 1 local elections than ever before.

Mobile phones, digital TV, postal voting and that ubiquitous holy grail, the “worldwide interweb”, will be at the disposal of a total of 6.5 million voters this year, taking Britain (or at least England) further away from what Robin Cook described as the “anachronism” of the pencil stub, and closer to the government’s stated ambition of an e-enabled general election some time after 2006.

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/story/0,12767,942508,00.html

[Evidence indicates that postal voting is more of a success at this. -Thomas]

E-voting ‘would increase turnout’

Staff and agencies
Thursday April 24, 2003

Voters would be more willing to turn out in elections if they could cast their votes electronically, according to an opinion poll published today.
The survey, carried out for the electoral commission - the independent body responsible for promoting participation in elections - found 55% said they would be more willing to vote if some form of electronic voting was available.

The poll was timed to coincide with next week’s English local government elections, when around 1.5 million people across 18 local council areas will be able to take part in electronic voting trials.

The trials include voting by text message, internet, electronic kiosk and, for the first time, digital TV.

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/comment/0,12767,953206,00.html

[Contains several citations of articles discussing security issues as a major problem. -Thomas]

E-vote early, vote often

Alexander Chancellor
Saturday May 10, 2003
The Guardian

The turnout in last week’s local elections was pathetic - about one third of the electorate - confirming all the gloom at Westminster about growing public apathy towards politics. So worried have politicians become about the people’s indifference to their democratic rights that the Electoral Commission authorised various pilot schemes by which about 3.5m people were allowed to cast their votes in unconventional ways.

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/comment/0,12767,893936,00.html

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Engel in America

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Paranoid party rights

Matthew Engel
Wednesday February 12, 2003
The Guardian

Anyone who has had any connection with British politics will know the election-night scene: the draughty hall; the trestle tables; the piles of ballot papers; the suspicious agents prowling, ready to holler if a solitary ballot is misplaced. The system is zero-tech, offers a near-ideal combination of secrecy and transparency and (Northern Ireland excepted) has produced a trivial number of failures since the secret ballot came in 130 years ago.
The United States, as we know, has been less fortunate, though it is considered rather churlish and passé these days to mention what happened in Florida, and anyway the system has been reformed: there will be no more butterfly ballots and pregnant chads. The US is spending billions of dollars to “upgrade” voting systems - switching to methods that are far less transparent and even more corruptible. Furthermore, Britain is thinking of following suit.

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Sheffield had a smaller experiment with some of these methods last year. One of the wards used was Sheffield Hallam, in the constituency of the Lib Dem MP, Richard Allen, who is e-enthusiastic but not at all impressed. There were terrible teething troubles at the polling stations, but those are curable. What isn’t curable is what happened at the count. The paper ballots were counted in the normal way. Then, said Allen: “An official popped in through the back of the room and said ‘Here are the other figures.’ And we said ‘Is that it?’ And that was it.”

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