E-Poll

The goal of E-POLL is to bridge the gap between the availability of leading edge technologies and the existing issues related to their application to the voting process (e.g., legislation, confidentiality, security and reliability, roles in the election process, costs). One of the main obstacles to the introduction of electronic vote is the lack of clear guidelines about how to implement an electronic voting system; lack of standards has led to lack of interoperability between the developed solutions and to reduced confidence on the part of voters and legislators. The E-POLL project will address these difficulties by defining an abstract framework (the European Virtual Ballot Network) defining the components of the electronic vote process (voting lists, virtual polling stations, vote collection systems, voters identification devices, etc.) and the information flow between actors involved. This framework will address the vote preparation, the voter identification/anonymity, the voter authorisation, and the vote transmission/security/count. The E-POLL project objective is to demonstrate that the European Virtual Ballot Network (EVBN), to which is connected every European administration involved in the voting process, could exist in the future for every election type. The project will analyse only the European election (the same rules apply all over Europe and the actors involved can be clearly identified).

<p>The project aims at fostering a second-generation e-voting service and set it in a wide area in the European Union, by introducing the use of flexible services, easily adaptable to different legislations around countries in the European Union. The E-Poll approach is a way to build services (such as all types of voting), toward citizens through its de-localised service provision using a polling station designed to facilitate e-inclusion (disabled and blind persons can access polling services). The E-Poll project implements a remote polling system with the aim of simplifying the polling procedure through an easy management model during all the polling phases.</p>

• Devices, channels and mobile technologies

• Campaigning
• Voting