England’s University College London (EUC) is bringing e-voting to the classroom. The system to be implemented is very easy to use. Teachers will ask simple choice question that students answer anonymously by pressing the buttons on a phone. Results can be displayed using bar graphs on a screen. Authorities from the EUC are expecting teachers to use ...
As early as 1999, in the midst of the dot-com bubble, Bill Clinton sent a memorandum directing the National Science Foundation to study the potential of Internet voting: “The Director of the National Science Foundation, working with appropriate Federal agencies, shall conduct a 1-year study examining the feasibility of online voting.†It was a promising future ...
India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs has gathered a group of experts to examine and review the new legislation ruling the use of electronic voting in corporate governance. The team will discuss the methodology that businesses and shareholders can implement to facilitate the effective use of electronic voting for decision-making. According to official sources, the working group began ...
14 years ago, in the wake of the 2000 general elections, Americans had to wait 37 days to learn who their leader was. The closest presidential election in US history was the fourth time that a president declared winner by the Electoral College system (G. W. Bush 271, A. Gore 266) had not won the ...
Switzerland has been experimenting with Internet voting for many years. In 2000, the Swiss confederate government invited interested cantons to participate in the development of their own remote electronic voting system with federal support. The long-term goal was to allow Swiss citizens to opt for an electronic voting system alongside voting by mail or in person ...