Guardian: electronic voting by 2006

[Ross Anderson]

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