E-Voting Case Law A Comparative Analysis

E-voting is the use of electronic means in the casting of the vote at political elections or referendums. This book provides an overview of e-voting related case-law worldwide and explains how judicial decisions impact e-voting development. With contributions by renowned experts on thirteen countries, the authors discuss e-voting both from controlled environments, such as voting machines in polling stations, and uncontrolled ones, including internet voting. Each chapter examines a group of country-specific leading judicial decisions on e-voting and their likely impact on its future development. Reference is made to emerging standards on e-voting such as the Recommendation Rec(2004)11 of the Council of Europe, the only international instrument on e-voting regulation, and to other countries' case-law. The work provides a broader, informative and easily accessible perspective on the historical, political and legal aspects of an otherwise very technical subject, and contributes to a better understanding of the significance of case law and its impact in shaping e-voting's future development. The book will be significantly useful to anyone with an interest in e-voting, in particular decision makers and officials, researchers and academia, as well as NGOs and providers of e-voting solutions.

Chapter 1 E-Voting, ArditaDriza Maurer; Part I The Principles; Chapter 2 Germany, SebastianSeedorf; Chapter 3 E-Voting in Austria, MelinaOswald; Chapter 4 Legal Aspects of E-Voting in Brazil, Amílcar BrunazoFilho, Augusto TavaresRosa Marcacini; Chapter 5 E-Voting Case Law in India, RishabBailey, RohitSharma; Chapter 6 A Judicial Approach to Internet Voting in Estonia, ÜlleMadise, PriitVinkel; Part II The Regulations; Chapter 7 The French Conseil Constitutionnel and Electronic Voting, JordiBarrat; Chapter 8 E-voting Case Law in Argentina, José MaríaPérez Corti; Chapter 9 Internet Voting Case Law in Finland, JussiAaltonen; Chapter 10 The Internet Voting Project in the Mexican Courts, JordiBarrat; Part III Back to Politics; Chapter 11 E-Voting Case Law, BeatKuoni; Chapter 12 Electronic Voting Law in the United States, Daniel P.Tokaji; Chapter 13 Electronic Voting in Australia, GregTaylor; Chapter 14 Venezuela, Rubén MartínezDalmau; Chapter 15 Conclusions, ArditaDriza Maurer, JordiBarrat;

Ardita Driza Maurer is a jurist based in Switzerland. She specializes in political rights and new voting technologies and works as an independent consultant. Ardita was previously a member and director of the Swiss federal internet voting project at the Swiss federal Chancellery. She currently provides legal expertise to ongoing work on the update of the Council of Europe Recommendation Rec(2004)11 on legal, operational and technical standards for e-voting. Jordi Barrat is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Catalonia/URV. He holds a PhD on constitutional law (León, Spain, 1997). His research is focused on electoral matters, namely e-voting issues. He is the director of EVOL2 / eVoting Legal Lab (http://evol2.wordpress.com). He has been an international electoral observer and assistant in a number of different countries (e.g. France, Norway, Belgium, Montenegro, Venezuela, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica) and has provided legal consultancy on electoral matters for different international institutions (e.g. Council of Europe, OSCE/ODIHR, IDEA, OAS, IFES).