1Introduction |
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Project |
CYBERVOTE |
Contract |
IST-1999-20338 |
Client |
European Commission | ||
Reference |
CYBERVOTE:WP5:D11:2001 | ||
Issue (draft) |
1.0 |
Date |
18 June 2002 |
Status |
Definitive |
Nature |
Public |
Author(s) |
Karl Schlichting
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Organisation |
Freie Hansestadt Bremen
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Name |
Role |
Organisation | |
Checked by |
Karl Schlichting |
Deliverable leader |
Freie Hansestadt Bremen |
Approved by |
Karl Schlichting |
WP Manager |
Freie Hansestadt Bremen |
Authorised by |
Stéphan BRUNESSAUX |
Project Director |
EADS Systems & Defence Electronics |
Distribution list | |
Name |
Organisation |
Antonis GALETSAS |
European Commission |
Stéphan BRUNESSAUX |
EADS Systems & Defence Electronics |
David PARKINSON |
BTexact Technologies |
Antoon BOSSELAERS |
K.U.Leuven Research & Development |
Sébastien LEVY |
Mairie d’Issy-les-Moulineaux |
Karl SCHLICHTING |
Freie Hansestadt Bremen |
N. ASOKAN |
NOKIA Research Centre |
Berry SCHOENMAKERS |
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven |
Leif RYDÉN |
Kista Stadsdelsnämnd |
Synopsis
The purpose of this document is to explain the context and the scope of the trial election on each pilot voting site.
File name
HB-WP5-D11-v1.0.doc
Amendment History
Version |
Date |
Description |
0.1 |
15 August 2001 |
Outline |
0.2 |
27 August 2001 |
Updated Outline |
0.3 |
25 September 2001 |
First draft description of the Bremen trial |
0.4 |
15 October 2001 |
Second draft description of the Bremen trial |
0.5 |
18 November 2001 |
Third draft including first contributions of Kista and Issy, annexes, introduction and summaries |
0.6 |
11 December 2001 |
Final Draft |
0.7 |
3 February 2002 |
Revised final draft (including comments addressed by Bremen) |
0.8 |
5 February 2002 |
Revised final draft (including comments addressed by Issy-les-Moulineaux) |
0.9 |
16 April 2002 |
Revised final draft including the updated trial description of Kista |
0.10 |
10 June 2002 |
Revised draft including the updated trial description of Issy-les-Moulineaux |
1.0 |
18 June 2002 |
Final version prepared by PD and released to the EC. |
Disclaimer
The information in this document is provided as is and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. The user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and liability.
Scope of CyberVote
CyberVote, an innovative cyber voting system for internet terminals and mobile phones, is a research and development (RDT) programme being funded by the European Commission, with additional funding from the companies and organisations undertaking the work. It is part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) 1999 programme for research, technology development and demonstration under the fifth framework programme (5th PCRD). It is attached to Key Action 1 “Systems and Services for the Citizens”.
The objective of CyberVote is to demonstrate the first highly secure cyber-voting prototype using mobile and fixed internet technologies. The project will define and implement a CyberVote prototype embedding an innovative voting protocol relying upon the use of advanced cryptographic tools that will be developed to ensure integrity, privacy and authentication of the voters. The prototype will be demonstrated and evaluated on 3 trial applications.
The project is carried out by a consortium led by EADS Systems & Defence Electronics (FR) and grouping together: BTexact Technologies (UK), NOKIA Research Centre (FI), K.U.Leuven Research & Development (BE), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (NL), Freie Hansestadt Bremen (DE), Mairie d'Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR) and Kista Stadsdelsnämnd (SE).
The project officially started on 1 September 2000. It will end on 1 March 2003. The overall budget of the project is 3 243 629 and the total effort is 27.4 man-years.
Executive summary
The present document defines the trials planned to be realised at the three end-user sites, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Germany), Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) and Kista (Sweden), within the framework of the CyberVote project.
As CyberVote is designed to be an universal online-voting system with no restrictions regarding its application fields, the trials planned within the project will cover the electoral and technical aspects of the three application areas "non political elections", "opinion polls"/"referendum" and "political elections".
The German online elections will be carried out at the Bremen University for Public Administration (Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung) around the month of November 2002. Within the Bremen trial three committees of the University for Public Administration will be elected online by using smart cards and digital signatures.
The city of Issy-les-Moulineaux selected two trial applications for the CyberVote system: the first trial will be the election of the council of the Industrial Tribunal (in French “elections prud’homales”), the second one could be held during the Regional elections which will take place in March 2003.
The trial elections planned to be realised in Kista will concern a referendum on topics of local interest. These matters will be chosen by local politicians, likely on suggestion by the potential voters in Kista. About 1000 voters in Kista will be chosen referring to geographical districts that form a representative part of the Kista Borough. The trial elections are to take place in late 2002 and in the very beginning of 2003.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Objectives of the trial applications 99
3.1 Background and framework conditions of online trial elections 1010
3.2 Detailed description of the trial application 1111
3.2.1 Context of the trial elections 1111
3.2.2 Description of the traditional voting procedure corresponding to the trial elections 1414
3.2.3 Description of the procedural model and expected development of the trial 1515
3.2.4 Organisational aspects of the trial 1818
3.2.5 Technical specifications/ environment 2020
4.1 Background and framework conditions of online trial elections 2222
4.2 Detailed description of the trial application 2323
4.2.1 Context of the trial elections 2323
4.2.2 Description of the traditional voting procedure corresponding to the trial elections 2424
4.2.3 Description of the procedural model and expected development of the trial 2525
4.2.4 Organisational aspects of the trial 2626
4.2.5 Technical specifications/ environment 2727
5.1 Background and framework conditions of online trial elections 2929
5.2 Detailed description of the trial application 2929
5.2.1 Context of the trial elections 2929
5.2.2 Description of the traditional voting procedure corresponding to the trial elections 3030
5.2.3 Description of the procedural model and expected development of the trial 3030
5.2.4 Organisational aspects of the trial 3131
5.2.5 Technical specifications/ environment 3232
6 Conclusions and Outlook 3434
8 Abbreviations and acronyms 3838
9 Points of Contact for further information 3939
10 Annex I: Technical Questions and Answers related to the Bremen Trial 4040
11 Annex II: Copies of the paper based ballot forms used at the University for Public Administration (Bremen) 4444
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Organization Chart 1919
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Main features of the CyberVote trials 3434
1 INTRODUCTION |
This document defines the trials planned to be realised at the three end-user sites, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Germany), Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) and Kista (Sweden), within the framework of the CyberVote project.
All different initiatives and developments actually going on and aiming at the realisation of voting via the Internet can be clustered in the three application areas "non political elections", "opinion polls"/"referendum" and "political elections". The first one mainly concern the increasing need of listed joint-stock companies for distance voting during their shareholders' meetings. The other two ones cover the broad field of political and democratic expression of will. In contrast to political elections, the importance of online-voting actually increases very fast for non political elections.
As CyberVote is designed to be an universal online-voting system with no restrictions regarding its application fields, the trials planned to be realised within the project will cover the electoral aspects of all three areas. The Bremen trial mainly focuses on elections to the board and at the same time on the simulation of political elections. The trials realised in Issy and Kista essentially concern the field of public opinion polls. An important aspect of all chosen trials is that they are not subject to the same strict legal restrictions as political elections. Especially the legal framework of public opinion polls do not vary considerably in the different European countries. Thus the results and experience gained during the trials realised in Bremen, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Kista are representative for and easily transferable to other European countries.
As originally stated in the technical annex of the project, at least 1,000 voters should be involved in each trial. When choosing the appropriate trial elections for CyberVote, the end-users became aware that it should not be the objective of the trials to involve as much voters as possible but to realise high quality trial elections covering different application fields of online-voting. For this reason the objective of involving 1,000 voters is to some extent abandoned in favour of the quality of the trials.
In the following a detailed description of each of the planned online-voting tests will be given, in order to prepare the technical realisation of the trials.
