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IT: Italy to run pilot electronic vote count during 2004 European elections
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The Italian Department for Innovation and Technologies and the Ministry of the Interior announced on 20 February 2004 that a large-scale electronic vote count experiment will be carried out during the next elections for the European Parliament.
The initiative, dubbed 'Electronic Scrutiny', will take place alongside the traditional manual vote count during the June 12-13 European elections in Italy but will not have any legal value. Approximately 2,500 electoral sections will participate in the electronic scrutiny pilot, which could pave the way for legally binding electronic vote counts in the future. According to the Italian Government, the main advantages of an electronic scrutiny system would be easier and faster operations, more accurate vote counting, faster and secure transmission of results and an increase in overall election efficiency.
Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu stressed that this experiment will allow the country to kick-off electoral modernisation without disturbing the voting habits of the citizens in the more delicate moment of voting itself. Instead, he added, the government has decided to start with modernising the vote count process and the transmission of election results. The Italian government has however not yet released detailed technical specifications of the planned electronic vote counting system.
The pilot will be evaluated by a national ad-hoc commission that will assess the efficiency of the system and address any problems it may encounter. The commission will then make any necessary recommendations in order to prepare the system for wider testing in future elections.
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Further information:
- Press release by the Italian Department for Innovation and Technologies
- Articles by i-dome.com, Punto Informatico, AGO, RomaOne, Libero and Gazzetta di Parma
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