SECRETARIAT GENERAL
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF DEMOCRACY AND
POLITICAL AFFAIRS
DIRECTORATE OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS
PROJECT “GOOD GOVERNANCE IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY”
Strasbourg, February 2008
Compliance of the BeVoting Study with the
Recommendation (2004) 11 of the Committee of Ministers of
the Council of Europe to member states on legal, operational
and technical standards for e-Voting
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Preliminary remarks
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2. Overview
3
2.1 General Comparison
3
3. The first scenario- Ballot Booklets
4
3.1 Key issues
4
3.1.1 Paper Trail
4
3.1.2 Audit and Certification
5
3.1.3 Security
6
3.1.4 Counting of the Votes
6
3.1.5 Camera-based reader as barcode reader
6
3.1.6 Multi-polling station computer
6
3.1.7 Voting Urn
6
3.2 Detailed analysis of the Council of Europe’s Recommendation
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4. The second scenario- Optical Scanning
7
5. The third scenario- Thin Client System
8
6. The fourth scenario- Remote Internet Voting
9
7. The fifth scenario- Kiosk Voting
10
Appendix- Article-by-Article Assessment of the Belgian Study in comparison with
Recommendation Rec(2004)11 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
to member states on legal, operational and technical standards for e-voting
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PRELIMINARY REMARKS
This report intends to assess the compatibility of the five scenarios presented in the Belgian Study
Consortium’s “BeVoting study of electronic Voting Systems”1 with Recommendation Rec(2004)11 of the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member states on Legal, operational and technical
standards for e-voting (hereafter the Recommendation).
The Council of Europe was asked to examine the overall coherence of the Study and the extent in which