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Guardian: UK electronic voting by 2006

------- Forwarded message follows ------- To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk Subject: Guardian: electronic voting by 2006 Date sent: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:52:22 +0100 From: Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Send reply to: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk

In an article in today's Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,756668,00.html

Robin Cook floats the idea of making the next general election fully electronic. Apparently 30 million was found in the spending review for a series of pilots, and the development of a secure register (yet another Trojan for a pop register & ID cards?).

There is to be a consultation period, ending in October. The link to the consultation paper isn't given, and parliament.uk has nothing. Eventually, a slog through Downing Street's slow and bloated site yields a link to

http://www.edemocracy.gov.uk

For reference, there are pages on electronic voting run by Rebecca Mercuri at

http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/~rmercuri/notable/evote.html

by Lorrie Cranor at

http://lorrie.cranor.org/voting/hotlist.html

by the CPSR at

http://www.cpsr.org/issues/voting.html

by Anne-Marie Oostveen at

http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/usr/oostveen/evote.html

and by the california voter initiative at

http://www.calvoter.org/votingtechnology.html

For interest, I chaired a session on electronic voting at the ACSAC conference in New Orleans in December 2000 while the Florida business was in full swing. The strong consensus among the assembled security professionals was that we didn't trust e-voting to be an improvement.

Enjoy!

Ross

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