IST 21109 E-POLL

Electronic Polling System for remote voting operation

http://www.e-poll-project.net

Mr. Augusto CoriglioniSiemens Informatica S.p.A.

augusto.coriglioni@sni.it

5th “Cities on Internet” Conference - Zakopane June 20th - 22nd 2001

The E-POLL approach

The framework will address the following areas:

         Vote preparation         Voter identification (anonymity)         Voter authorisation         Vote transmission / security / count

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

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

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

How was before E-Poll

Existing electoralSystems are designedaround locations notaround people

Civil ListsBallot

Civil ListsVoters Information

ServerVirtual Ballot

Box

Ubiquitous Voters

Kiosk

Smart CardBiometric

CertificationAuthorityService

How E-POLL works

EVBN

System Architecture

Ballot Papers Ballot system

Assessor

Voters List

Ballot Paper

Voting Booth

RecognitionSystem

VotingGrant

BallotBox

Vote

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

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

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.

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.

Fun

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Act

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Municipality 1

Prefecture 1

Min. Interior

OCT2001

Vote Verificaton

BIO Recognition

Mix-Net

Info to Voters V2

DB maint. V2

Kiosk v2

UMTS network

On Card Bio/Rec

Con. Security

Black List

Quality of Service

Kiosk v3Kiosk v1

Pin Recognition

Voter List

Passive Voters

GPRS network

DB maint. V1

Info to Voters V1

Municipality 2

Prefecture 2

Min. Interior

MAR2002

Parliament

Municipality 3

Prefecture 3

Min. Interior

JUN2002

Parliament

Embassy

EuropeanElection

Simulation

E-PO

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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

E-POLL: The Partnership

• Siemens (I)• Ministero dell’Interno (I)• France Telecom (F)• ANCITEL (I)• Municipium (PL)• Aquitaine Europe Communication (F)