OSS internet voting system from Ireland

Not sure if they are using EML to manage their voting here?

 

I suspect not - else would probably have been mentioned.

 

Also - seems like there are a number of issues with the approach that using EML could certainly provide some mitigation for.

 

On the other hand - since this is an open source project - it may provide a useful codebase to enhance further?

 

DW

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Just in from the ACM TechNews:

"Open-Source Project Aims to Erase E-Voting Fog"

IDG News Service (04/16/07); Kirk, Jeremy

University College Dublin computer science lecturer Joseph Kiniry believes 
that e-voting is risky and available software systems are substandard, 
saying governments feel obliged to use e-voting to feel modern, despite 
computer security experts' warnings that e-voting is insecure. Kiniry 
knows governments are going to forge ahead with the implementation of 
e-voting systems, so he and a team of researchers designed an open source 
e-voting software system that he hopes will create a secure foundation for 
e-voting. In Kiniry's system, voters register at a government office and 
receive a PIN. Later, the voter will receive a unique ballot in the mail, 
and on election day, the voter will enter their voter ID code and PIN on 
the Web site. To select a candidate, the ballot has a number next to each 
candidate that is different for every voter, a type of pre-encryption, 
ensuring that the number can only be used once and will be useless if 
intercepted. Kiniry's system also provides the voter with a receipt 
number to make sure the vote was counted. Recounts remain a problem 
because there are no physical ballots, and like other systems, a recount 
would entail the system running the same software over again, which is not 
an acceptable solution according to Kiniry. Kiniry believes a possible 
solution would be to allow a third party to develop their own software 
that could be used for recounts, but because elections have such ambiguity 
without computer technology, it is likely any electronic voting system 
will have ambiguities as well.

For information about ACM's e-voting activities, visit 
http://www.acm.org/usacm

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/16/HNevotingfog_1.html _,___