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Pilot phase for the electronic voting by Internet
:: 20 December, 2007
It may soon be possible for Americans living abroad to vote electronically for the presidential elections. The launch of a pilot phase for the voters registered in the county of Okaloosa, Florida. 900 soldiers deployed on the basis of Ramstein, Germany, Mildenhall in England and the Kadena Air Base in Japan will be able to validate their ballots on computers converted into electronic kiosks. The machines will be directly connected by a secure VPN network to a server located in the office of the county of Okaloosa accounting for votes.
Is responsible for the technical implementation of the project. The kiosks will be open 10 days before the start of the elections, and registration of votes will be possible until the close of business the United States on November 4, 2008. Representatives of the county of Okaloosa will be on hand, along with independent experts who will be responsible for validating the successful holding of the elections while collecting the necessary data to validate the device. The goal of the foundation is BRAVO to generalize this type of voting machine for the presidential elections in 2016.The adoption of such a system could be enhanced by the presence of network infrastructure reliable and secure on most American military sites abroad.
As a reminder, nearly 7 million Americans live abroad and many are facing difficult vote remotely. This mode of voting uses paper ballots that arrive often too late at its destination. A recent report by the Century Foundation points out that during the elections in 2006, only 5.5% of voters saw their ballots counted. Reliable solutions for remote electronic voting could therefore strongly influence the outcome of the upcoming elections, especially considering the tight scores of the two main candidates in recent presidential elections in some states.
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Imagine all voters in Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming had not been allowed to vote in the 2004 presidential election.
Embarrassing? Scandalous? Unbelievable?
In fact, this is the electoral equivalent of what approximately 2 Million U.S. overseas civilian and military voters will experience in the 2008 Presidential election: a confusing, slow, and unreliable by-mail absentee balloting process that will effectively deny them a vote. Sadly, tens of thousands of Americans living outside the U.S. have simply become so discouraged with this antiquated process they’ve already given up trying to vote in elections which most stateside Americans take for granted.
Addressing this democratic inequity is what the Operation BRAVO Foundation is all about.
Specifically, the Operation BRAVO Foundation believes that practical and reproducible electronic alternatives to the current by-mail paper ballot process can significantly improve overseas absentee voting and should be studied for eventual deployment. To kick off this effort the Foundation is sponsoring a remote electronic voting Pilot for the 2008 General Election.
This modest launch should lead to the development of more effective voting methodologies as more information and experience is gathered. The Operation BRAVO Foundation’s bottom-line goal is a voting success rate for overseas voters comparable to that of stateside absentee voters by the 2016 Presidential election.
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