E-Voting.at election test at Austrian Federal President Election

22/05/2011

The e-voting.at team is conducting its second field trial within one years time. This time 20,000 students of the Vienna University of Economics and BA (WU) are able to vote a second time electronically in addition to their traditional paper vote.

Last year, the student union of the WU agreed to conduct an election test in parallel to the bi-annual 2003 student union elections with a subset of 1,000 (of the total 20,000) students in IT-related majors.

This year a test election in parallel to the federal president elections on 25th of april are the next step towards a legal-binding e-voting election in Austria.

The e-voting.at team of Prof. Prosser has teamed up with two prominent IT-partners, namely IBM Austria and A-Trust. Those two companies support the trial with both IT hard/software as well as their experience in e-government solution providing. The third partner in the e-voting.at initiative project is the student union at WU.

Furthermore the initiative installed an Election Commission consisting of prominent legal and IT experts:

  1. the president of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) Prof. Gabriele Kotsis

  2. Professor for public and administrative law Prof. Michael Holoubek

  3. WU Vice rector Dr. Horst Breitenstein


This field trial is one of the largest in Europe to date and is based on the two-phase e-voting.at prototype. For this election the software was enhanced in both system performance and usability based on the experiences made in the May 2003 trial.

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Original publishing date: 13.4.2004 (was imported from the old evoting.at site)