Success Factors of Geneva's e‑Voting System

Authors

  • Michel Chevallier
  • Michel Warynski
  • Alain Sandoz

Keywords:

remote e-voting, direct democracy, project success factors

Abstract

In eight official votes between January 2003 and April 2005 authorities in Geneva invited up to 90 ,000 citizens to test a remote e‑Voting system as a complement to traditional voting methods. Multidisciplinary teams composed of legal, political, PR, security and computer science specialists, strongly supported by the Government, participated in creating the system which will be appraised by the Geneva Parliament en 2006. This paper reports on the project, its results in terms of numbers and socio‑political profile of e‑Voters, and its success factors. All three authors were directly or indirectly involved in the project from the beginning and are currently working on the deployment of Geneva's e‑ Government platform.

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Published

1 Dec 2006

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2006)

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