IST 21109 EPOLL

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IST 21109 E-POLL

• Electronic Polling System for remote voting
  operation
• http//www.e-poll-project.net

Mr. Augusto Coriglioni Siemens Informatica
S.p.A. augusto.coriglioni_at_sni.it
5th Cities on Internet Conference - Zakopane
June 20th - 22nd 2001
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The E-POLL approach

• The framework will address the following areas
•          Vote preparation
•          Voter identification (anonymity)
•          Voter authorisation
•          Vote transmission / security / count

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Expected Results

• Citizens/Administrators/Politicians requirements
  for an electronic voting system
• Normative recomandations for legislative
  evolution
• Complete e-poll system ready to be tested
• On field real pilots in two countries (I, F)
• Results evaluation against existing procedures
• Feedback collection versus users requirements

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Expected Benefits

• Evaluated cost decrease around M 50 per
  election only considering paper
• Virtual constituency
• Virtual voting grant
• European dimension pilot starting January 2002
• New e-democracy processes toward a direct
  relationship with citizens
• Decrease the effects of Digital divide
• Re-use of previous investments (Italian EID card)
• Privacy and Security guaranted at the highest
  level

Source Italian Electoral Dipartment
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E-POLL Innovative Aspects

• The European Virtual Ballot Network (EVBN)
• Innovative information flows among
  administrations for pre/post vote activities
• Polling station virtualisation for distance
  voting
• Modification of each national Corpus Legis
  regarding the vote processes
• Innovative Network infrastructure (non Internet)
• Fingerprint recognition enabled smartcards
• Intelligent forms using advanced automatic
  authoring system for the production of the
  electoral forms

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How was before E-Poll
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How E-POLL works
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System Architecture
Assessor
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Italian Pilots

• Local Authorities has been involved in a user
  group to participate the project requirement
  phase and presented their own projects for the
  piloting phase.
• Three cities selected (by now)
• Avellino
• Campobasso
• Cremona

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French Pilot

• Local Authorities  (both city authorities - with
  the personal involvment of the major himself -
  and the regional council with the regional
  representative of the French Governement)  have
  been deeply involved to participate to the french
  project requirement phase

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Mérignac Pilot

• The chosen city for France is Mérignac in
  Aquitaine region - Department of Gironde.
• A specific project has been setup for the
  piloting phase in order to test E-poll system in
  real conditions with a voting bureau downtown
  located  and representing 705 voters. The real
  election will be the legislative one in 2002.

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Polish Pilot

• Municipium is the organisation involving all the
  Municipalities there is a co-operation with City
  of Czestochowa in Silesia Region
• The Polish Minister of Interior will collaborate
  in the pilot phase to investigate and simulate a
  consultation in Poland to test the system.

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E-POLL Pilot Pathway
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Identified Issues

• The issues to widespread use of electronic votes
  can be summarised as follows
• Legislation needs to be adapted.
• Voters and Administrations need full confidence
  in the voting process.
• Security and reliability have to be guaranteed
  (linux os).
• Current roles in the election process must be
  preserved.
• High initial costs

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E-POLL The Partnership

• Siemens (I)
• Ministero dellInterno (I)
• France Telecom (F)
• ANCITEL (I)
• Municipium (PL)
• Aquitaine Europe Communication (F)