Margaret McGaley led a successful campaign – Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Voting – to persuade Ireland that it is people, not computers, who vote. She explains how e–communication won the day for verified votes Read the rest of this post...

The United States election of 2004 reinforces a vital lesson: truly safe and accurate voting machines do not exist, says computer security expert Bruce Schneier.

The punch-card voting system that caused the 2000 Florida fiasco is both unreliable and severely deficient from a civil rights perspective. Daniel Tokaji explains how touchscreen voting can serve democratic principles of inclusion and fairness. Read the rest of this post...

The solution to problems in the electoral process, says Louise Ferguson, lies not in technology but in human-centred design. Read the rest of this post...

America’s distrustful, polarised political climate blocks open discussion of one of the country’s most serious democratic deficits: voting technology. Read the rest of this post...

The impact of new technologies makes a fair voting, recording and counting system even more essential to a healthy democratic process. Recent international experience, says Siva Vaidhyanathan, highlights four guiding principles that should be followed: trust, accountability, openness, and universality. How does the United States measure up? Read the rest of this post...