he main innovations introduced
by E-Poll concern the organization of voting processes.
An important component of the E-Poll
system is the European Virtual Ballot Network (EVBN) supporting the new voting process.
The network is a functional system allowing communications in terms of information
flows between administrative authorities at different levels.
E-Poll sample: election in Italy and voting in France
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The project investigated mobile communications based on the GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi standard
for providing the E-Poll network with the required bandwidth and security.
Thanks to the network, it becomes possible to use E-Poll
kiosks anywhere, within a private, reliable and protected network. E-Poll
provides a flexible platform allowing downscaling to Internet voting.
The voter-recognition system is based on smart card or other token contact or
contact-less, a fingerprint reader could be part of the kiosk and identification
station, which performs voter recognition with absolute security.
An ergonomic kiosk facilitates use by disabled people.
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E-Poll
system is confirmed to follow principles of Europe’s electoral heritage
- Universal suffrage
- Equal suffrage
- Free suffrage
- Secret suffrage
- Direct suffrage
- Frequency of election
E-Poll has been designed for institutional vote (not home voting); for this
reason ePoll runs on the supervision of a public assessor and uses a
specific secure VPN communication network (Internet is not suitable in this case);
PKI security infrastructure is compliant with the
italian Electronic Identification Document project (Electronic
Identity Card & National Service Card).
E-Poll is based on an innovative architecture which allows both the keeping
of the institutional roles (Ministry of Interior, Prefecture, Municipality, etc.) and the
distributed control on the voting processes
ePoll uses public premises: traditional premises, schools and Municipalities conventional premises
as tourist sites (on the beach and at mountain place) and hospitals.
In the future lower security level pilots will run in Universities
through home secure voting on the classical Internet communication platform.
Most attention has been given to accessibility of vote both trough a easy
to use system and a e-inclusion minded approach in designing the
e-poll kiosk provided by Pininfarina design in Turin
Person with physical, vision and audio disabilities could vote without external assistance.
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