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1 Implementing and Overseeing Electronic Voting and Counting Technologies Resource Annex Lead Authors Ben Goldsmith Holly Ruthrauff

2 This publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Award No. DFD-A The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.

3 IMPLEMENTING AND OVERSEEING ELECTRONIC VOTING AND COUNTING TECHNOLOGIES: RESOURCE ANNEX RECOMMENDATIONS AND GUIDELINES ON IMPLEMENTING E-VOTING AND COUNTING Caarls, Susanne: E-voting Handbook: Key Steps for Introducing E-voting, Council of Europe, 2010, available at < 2010/Biennial_Nov_meeting/ID10322%20GBR%206948%20Evoting%20handbook%20 A5%20HD.pdf> Council of Europe, Certification of E-Voting Systems, 2011, available at < upload/krd/prosjekter/e-valg/vedlegg/certification_evoting_system_eng.pdf > Council of Europe, Guidelines on Transparency of E-enabled Elections, 2011, available at < Nov_meeting/Guidelines_transparency_EN.pdf> Recommendations and Guidelines on Implementing E-Voting and Counting 307

4 Council of Europe, Legal, Operational and Technical Standards for E-Voting, 2004, available at < Rec(2004)11_Eng_Evoting_and_Expl_Memo_en.pdf> EC-UNDP Joint Taskforce on Electoral Assistance, Procurement Aspects of Introducing ICTs Solutions in Electoral Processes, 2010, available at < org/images/operational%20paper.pdf> Goldsmith, Ben, Electronic Voting & Counting Technologies: A Guide to Conducting Feasibility Studies, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, 2011, available at < org/content/publications/books/2011/~/media/files/publications/books/2011/electronic_voting_and_counting_tech_goldsmith.pdf> International IDEA, Introducing Electronic Voting: Essential Considerations, 2011, available at < Norden, Lawrence D. and Lazarus, Eric, The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World, Brennan Center for Justice, 2007, available at < electronic_world/> Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Electronic Voting: Challenges and Opportunities, US Election Assistance Commission, Voting System Testing and Certification Program Manual, 2011, available at < Manual.OMB% Exp% pdf> US Election Assistance Commission, Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, 2005, available at < Yard, Michael, Direct Democracy: Progress and Pitfalls of Election Technology, International Foundation for Electoral System, 2010, available at < Books/2010/Direct-Democracy-Progress-and-Pitfalls-of-Election-Technology.aspx> OVERSEEING ELECTRONIC VOTING AND COUNTING Carter Center, Handbook on Observing Electronic Voting, 2012, available at < 308

5 International IDEA, Voting from Abroad: The International IDEA Handbook on External Voting (Stockholm: International IDEA, 2007), Chapter 9, Observation of External Voting, available at Organization of American States, Observing the Use of Electoral Technologies, 2010, available at < Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), In Preparation of Guidelines for the Observation of Electronic Voting, October 2008, available at OSCE/ODIHR: Handbook for the Observation of New Voting Technologies. Warsaw, Pran, Vladimir and Merloe, Patrick, Monitoring Electronic Technologies in Electoral Processes, National Democratic Institute, 2007, available at < manuals_monitoringtech_0.pdf> Vollan, Kåre, Observing Electronic Voting, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, 2005, available at < INTERNET VOTING AND VOTING FROM ABROAD International IDEA, Voting from Abroad: The International IDEA Handbook on External Voting (Stockholm: International IDEA, 2007), Chapter 10, E-voting and External Voting, available at < Trechsel, Alexander and Vassil, Kristjan, Internet Voting in Estonia: A Comparative Analysis of Four Elections Since 2005, European University Institute, 2010, available at < ee/public/dok/report_-_e-voting_in_estonia_ pdf> OTHER RESOURCES ON E-VOTING AND COUNTING Barrat I Esteve, J, Goldsmith, B. and Turner, J., International Experience with E-voting, IFES, 2012, available at Other Resources on E-voting and Counting 309

6 Jones, Douglas W., Some Problems with End-to-End Voting, University of Iowa, 2009, available at < McGaley, M. and Gibson, J.P., Electronic Voting: A Safety Critical System, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Oostveen, A.-M. and van den Besselaar, P., Security as Belief: User s Perceptions on the Security of Electronic Voting Systems, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, available at < Proceeding.GI.47-8.pdf> Zetter, Kim, The Cost of E-Voting, Wired Magazine, 2008, available at < 310

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