Putting Citizens in Charge of the Democratic Process
The Handivote system allows people to vote using their mobile phones.
Our proposal includes a series of checks and balances which will ensure
that
- Voting is anonymous and no one will be able to link the vote to the voter
- Voters can vote from wherever they are
- They can vote using either their mobile phone, landline phone or public phone
- They can check whether their vote was counted correctly
- They can ensure that all votes were tallied correctly and that no fraud has occurred
Blog
To read our blog click here
Pilot Study Results
During the week of the 15th March we ran a small pilot in our department. To see the results, click here
Publications
Paul Cockshott and Karen Renaud. Extending Handivote to Handle Digital Economic Decisions. BCS 2010 Visions Conference. 13-16 April. Edinburgh University.
Karen Renaud and Paul Cockshott. HandiVote: Simple, Anonymous, and Auditable Electronic Voting. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 2009 Volume 6, Issue 1 January, pages 60 - 80
K Renaud and P Cockshott. Electronic Plebiscites. METTEG 2007 1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government Camerino (Italy), 27-28 September 2007.
