[LINK] Victoria the first to cast e-vote in a state election

[Kim Holburn]

http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html

> The ACT's electronic voting system, which was first used at the  
> October 2001 election and was again used in the October 2004  
> election, is the first of its kind to be used for parliamentary  
> elections in Australia. The system uses standard personal computers  
> as voting terminals, with voters using a barcode to authenticate  
> their votes. Voting terminals are linked to a server in each  
> polling location using a secure local area network. No votes are  
> taken or transmitted over a public network like the Internet.
>


On 2006/Nov/14, at 11:13 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:

>
> On 2006/Nov/14, at 9:52 AM, brd at iimetro.com.au wrote:
>
>> Victoria the first to cast e-vote in a state election
>
> Yeah first "state election" true but e-voting has already been done  
> in the ACT
>
>> E-voting software used at the centres has been provided by Hewlett  
>> Packard in partnership with Scytl Secure Electronic Voting.
>>
>> Voting computers are not connected to a network so they cannot be  
>> accessed from the Internet.
>>
>> An independent software auditor has certified the source code to  
>> ensure it is secure and free from malicious code.
>
> The ACT e-voting system was open-source.  The VIC one doesn't look  
> like it.
>
>
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