*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org ***
To access links, see Steven Clift's blog: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=324 Post: Events - UK E-Voting Events in February 6-8th Speaking of "Internet" voting, folks in Estonia showed me how they use their government IDs with strong encryption chips to vote in elections. Here is some information. Folks with standard chip readers in their computers insert their chip card government ID for all sort of government services (they will soon be used by commercial banks as well) and enter their PIN. What I didn't have a chance to ask is how they got around or whether they receive complaints about the lack of voter verified paper trail. Do they have some sort of digital version?? Thank you Jason for sending this along. If others have announcements they'd like to share on DoWire, please pass them along. I think I've finally shaken off the last in a series of colds! Steven Clift http://dowire.org http://e-democracy.org From: Jason Kitcat Subject: UK e-voting events 6-8th February, London Taking the lid off e-voting ============================= While the Department for Constitutional Affairs have left us in the dark with no news at all about the e-voting pilots due for May 2007, The Open Rights Group has been hard at work. Elections are a cornerstone of our democracy so we�re going to take the lid off the e-voting black box with an unprecedented week of unique free events. All are very welcome but spaces are limited. Our headline event, "Electronic Voting: A challenge to democracy?" features a distinguished set of speakers with considerable practical and academic knowledge of electronic voting systems around the world. Their experiences will make for fascinating listening, we�re looking forward to stimulating debate and questions from the audience. Our workshop for activists will be the first time Europeans will have gathered together to formally discuss and organise around the challenge that e-voting presents our democracies. It will be a very exciting starting point for future collaboration. We�re also extremely proud to be able to present a special screening of "Hacking Democracy", a film which manages to make the problems e-voting poses completely accessible to a non-technical audience. It�s a powerful film so we�re sure that the audience will have plenty to discuss with the co-directors and MPs forming a panel at the end of the screening. Electronic Voting: A challenge to democracy? (8th February) -------------------------------------------------------------- Governments around the world are conducting elections using electronic voting machines, websites and even text messages. What benefits and problems have they have found? What attracts governments to evoting? Come and hear noted experts from Europe and the US talk about the experiences so far, including e-voting machines hacked to play chess in the Netherlands and US problems that may have led to thousands of votes going missing in 2006�s congressional elections. Confirmed speakers include: Margaret McGaley (Ireland) Colm MacCarthaigh (Ireland) Anne-Marie Oostveen (The Netherlands) Dr Rebecca Mercuri (USA) Rop Gonggrijp (The Netherlands) will present a very short demonstration of how Dutch machines were hacked using a live voting machine. This event will take place 6-8pm on February 8th at University College London. Reserve your free place and find out more at European Electronic Voting Activism Workshop - Sharing & Learning across Europe (8th February) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Governments around the world are increasingly drawn towards e-voting, despite the significant problems that have arisen in a number of elections. This workshop, chaired by Jason Kitcat, will bring together e-voting experts from around Europe and the US to share knowledge, ideas and experiences - frequently what happens in one country is repeated in another. The workshop will include: * Short country status reports from e-voting experts * A longer report from The Netherlands including an extended demonstration of hacking a Nedap machine by Rop Gonggrijp * Discussion of EFVE & EDRI (existing European umbrella organisations) * Development of an action plan on how to develop European co-operation This event will take place 2-5pm on February 8th at University College London. Reserve your free place and find out more at Screening: "Hacking Democracy" (6th February) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HBO�s screening of Hacking Democracy days before the 2006 US mid-term elections blew up a storm of activism around the many failings with electronic voting. The film�s portrayal of supplier dishonesty and undetectable system hacks has sent shockwaves through the US political system. We will be giving a rare UK screening of this film followed by a panel discussion with the film�s co-directors Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels along with MPs from each of the major parties. The screening will be at University College London, 6th February, starting around 7pm. Reserve your free place and find out more at -- + Jason Kitcat voting, e-voting and e-democracy + + 44 (0) 7956 886 508 *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To comment/for links: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=324 To network: http://groups.dowire.org Submit posts: http://dowire.org/submit Member profile for Steven: http://groups.dowire.org/main/contacts/stevenclift ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail: http://groups.dowire.org/main/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/topic/101849 For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
