Information Society Policy Link. Governance: eGovernment & eDemocracy

Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

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Information Society Policy Link Governance: eGovernment & eDemocracy E-voting becomes a reality A series of extensive pilots are validating the Ε-POLL electronic polling platform for wide-scale use in elections in Europe. The potential benefits of ICT for the The first milestone came in September electoral process are widely 2004 when the Ε-POLL platform was recognised: use of new technologies used as the sole means of voting in a offers citizens greater flexibility in municipal referendum at Ladispoli, Italy, when and how they vote and could involving 25000 citizens. To allow this significantly revive participation in the legal innovation, the municipality democratic process. Introducing such modified its statute to give legal major changes in the electoral system recognition to an electronic is also laden with risks, however. How consultation. Initial results suggest the can we be sure voters will understand platform was popular and extremely the new technologies and that the successful. Eventually around 140000 electronic system will not be open to voters will be covered by the E-POLL abuse? pilots. Ε-POLL has made major strides in this direction. Initially launched under the 1ST Programme (FP5), E-POLL undertook research into electronic polling. The work involved the re-engineering of the entire voting process, from pre-vote preparations and operations through to post-vote tasks such as balloting.

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• Marketing et communication

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 7
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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