[election-services] FW: Elections using Java - reference info

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From: buckbaboon 
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Subject: Elections 
using Java - reference info

I came across your web page and it jogged my memory about some info I found 
during the last election, which whetted my interest in the subject.  You 
might be interested in referring to some of this since it clearly 
represents a great deal of technical research on this subject.  If you're 
interested, please see:

The Association of Electronic Voting Systems
A consortium of companies has 
been set up develop software for the system. The members of the consortium 
passed competitive tests and were selected by the Japanese government. The 
consortium consists of The Center for Political Public Relations Inc., NTT Data 
Corporation, and Victor Data Systems Co. Ltd.
http://www.evs-j.com/English/introduction.htm

Cryptography and Information Security Group Research Project: Electronic 
Voting (java)
http://www.toc.lcs.mit.edu/~cis/voting/voting.html
NTT-Sponsored 
Research in Cryptography and Information Security, and Algorithm Development 

http://www.toc.lcs.mit.edu/~cis/ntt/home.html
Receipt-Free 
Electronic Voting Schemes for Large Scale Elections 
Tatsuaki Okamoto NTT 
Laboratories Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/129743.html

Electronic 
voting systems like the one newly developed by Victor Data Systems Co., Ltd. (a 
subsidiary of JVC) have already streamlined voting for national and regional 
elections in the US, Brazil, Holland, the Philippines and Belgium. More than a 
dozen other countries are currently testing such a solution prior to 
implementation, and a further ten countrie Yahoo! Greetings - send 
greetings for Easter, 
Passover