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The French Ministry of Education used Scytl’s e-voting system to carry out the election in which French teachers elected their union representatives. Approximately 1.5 million electronic votes were cast in this election, setting a new worldwide record in the number of votes cast over the Internet in a public election. The election closed on October 20, after a 7-day voting period in which Internet voting was the only voting channel. Voters were able to obtain their voter credentials through an innovative online system based on one-time links that was also provided by Scytl. The entire electoral process comprised a total of 760 simultaneous sub-elections managed by 72 independent electoral boards across France (including overseas locations in the Pacific and the Caribbean).
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has selected Scytl, in partnership with Atos Origin, to offer a 24/7 secure Internet voting platform to the French citizens living overseas. In May 2009, 340,000 French voters residing in Africa and America were able to cast votes over the Internet to elect their representatives to the Assembly of the French living abroad (AFE) . The AFE will then directly elect 12 Senators who will represent the French living overseas. This was the highest-profile internet voting project in France.
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Scytl, in partnership with ErgoGroup, was selected by the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development to offer a secure Internet voting platform to selected municipalities in the 2011 municipal elections. Voters in these selected municipalities will be able to cast their votes over the Internet either from polling stations or remotely from anywhere in the world. A full nationwide rollout of the Internet voting system is scheduled for 2017.
Scytl was awarded, in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services, a 5-year contract to provide the State of Gujarat with a permanent Internet voting platform to conduct its municipal elections. The State of Gujarat with a population of 50 million people has become the first Indian state to implement Internet voting in public elections.
Scytl, in partnership with Logica, has been awarded a contract by the UAE Ministry for the Federal National Council Affairs to provide e-voting in their upcoming elections to the Federal National Council that will be held in September 2011. E-voting will be deployed countrywide as the only voting method and will be used in conjunction with the country’s national e-ID card provided by the Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA). Along with its secure e-voting technology, Scytl will also provide its electronic pollbook to help manage the electoral roll in all seven Emirates and provide ‘vote anywhere’ capabilities during the election.
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Scytl has been selected by the Federal Voting Assistance Program of the U.S. Department of Defense to provide a secure online ballot delivery and onscreen marking systems under a program to support overseas military and civilian voters for the 2010 election cycle and beyond. Scytl has been awarded 9 of the 20 States that agreed to participate in the program (New York, Washington, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, South Carolina, Mississippi and Indiana), making it the provider with the highest number of participating States.
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The State of West Virginia has selected Scytl to provide Internet voting to overseas voters during the 2010 General Elections under an online voting pilot program implemented in Jackson, Kanawha, Marshall, Mason, Monongalia, Monroe, Putnam and Wood Counties. The pilot program utilized military-style encryption to ensure ballot security.
The Organization of American States (OAS) has awarded a contract to Scytl to audit the electronic voting software developed by the National Office of Electoral Processes in Peru. This audit is aimed at establishing security standards, evaluating the risks associated to the use of electronic voting and proposing actions to allow the Peruvian Office of Electoral Processes comply with these standards.
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The State of New York has selected Scytl, in partnership with the Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF), to provide “Power to MOVE”, a MOVE Act compliant solution aimed at supporting the state’s overseas voter community in the 2010 general election. This innovative solution allows military or overseas voters to download their ballot, cast the ballot and have it in the mail back to New York State the same day. By obtaining their ballot by email, military and overseas voters can receive their absentee ballots earlier than they ever have before.
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The District of Columbia has selected Scytl, in partnership with Hart Intercivic to equip their polling stations with electronic voter lists. Scytl’s solution, ePollbook, was aimed at replacing the paper precinct rosters used for checking in voters on Election Day. The system could synchronize voter registration data in real-time and increase the efficiency of voter check-in and verification processes at the polling location. ePollBook was deployed in the US 2010 Primary and General elections.
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Alabama’s Secretary of State office has awarded a contract to Scytl to provide a MOVE Act compliant solution that addresses the difficulties met by overseas voters by the time they cast their vote. Implemented for the 2010 General Elections, Scytl’s system offers the possibility to overseas voters to receive their absentee ballot via electronic means and mark it electronically. This change has cut in half the overseas voting process completion time, knowing that in Alabama, this process can take up to 88 days.
The Ministry of Science and Research of Austria has selected Scytl, together with the Federal Computing Center (Bundesrechenzentrum GmbH), to provide Scytl's secure electronic voting software to carry out the first binding Internet voting election in Austria. In this project, 240,000 students from 21 different Universities were able to securely cast votes over the Internet in over 400 simultaneous elections to elect the representatives of the students of each university between April and June 2009.
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The City of Barcelona has selected Scytl, in partnership with Indra, to organize in June 2010 a vast citizen consultation over the Internet concerning the reform of its major road: the Diagonal Avenue. The city of Barcelona invited all the inhabitants aged over 16 (1.4 million) to express their preference between two reform projects. Voters had the possibility to vote from one of the 110 municipal centers or from any computer connected to the Internet.
Scytl provided its secure Internet voting technology in the 2008 Presidential election of the United States to allow the overseas voters registered in Okaloosa County (Florida) to cast binding votes remotely. The Operation Bravo Foundation, in partnership with the Supervisor of Elections of Okaloosa County and Election Trust, selected Scytl's technology for its unique capability to allow individual voters to verify that their ballots were received and counted.
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Scytl in partnership with ES&S, the world's largest provider of election management solutions, was awarded contracts by the UK Department of Constitutional Affairs to support two local authority e-voting projects in May 2007 as part of the UK Electoral Modernisation Pilot Projects. Scytls e-voting security technology was selected by Rushmoor Borough Council and South Bucks District Council to allow their citizens to cast binding votes remotely over the Internet during their local elections with the highest standards of security, trust and privacy.
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Scytl has been awarded a contract by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). By the General Election in (BiH) in autumn 2010 Scytl will provide to the Central Election Commission of BiH an integrated election management and results consolidation system that will process and verify all data on candidates and political parties, generate the paper ballots as well as validate, centralize and tally the results in the counting centre. The system will also validate the election results, allocate the mandates and generate the report for the official gazette as well as the election statistics.
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) awarded a contract to Scytl to carry out the first Internet election in the Philippines. This first Internet election involved approximately 30,000 Philippine overseas absentee voters registered in Singapore. This first experience will be used as a reference for a future large-scale deployment of Internet voting in the Philippines. Scytl was selected as a result of its innovative e-voting security technology after a thorough due diligence process undertaken by COMELEC.
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Scytl and Hewlett Packard provided poll-site electronic voting terminals (DREs) in the State of Victoria (Australia) for the November 2006 parliamentary elections. The electronic voting terminals provided the highest levels of security and accessibility for people with physical disabilities. Furthermore, these e-voting terminals warned voters of unintentional "over-voting" and "under-voting" mistakes, allowing voters to make the appropriate corrections before casting their votes. Finally, the e-voting terminals designed by Scytl supported twelve different languages to allow people with poor English skills to vote with total privacy.
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Scytl, Hewlett Packard and Gov2U are the three technological partners of eRepresentative, a project to develop a "virtual platform" to facilitate the remote collaborative work of members of parliaments. This project was partly funded by the European Union with the participation of Napier University and the Parliaments of The Netherlands, Hungary, Catalonia, Lithuania and the County Council of Westmeath (Ireland). Scytl was responsible primarily for the security and mobility aspects of the project.
The Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel selected Pnyx.core to provide security to their electronic voting system available in their e-Government portal called Guichet Sécurisé Unique. This platform is one of the only three in the world that is permanently used to carry out binding elections and consultations through Internet.
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Scytl and its partner for the Scandinavian market, TietoEnator, won a contract with the Ministry of Justice in Finland to supply secure e-voting terminals for the 2008 municipal elections. These terminals incorporated the most advanced security features available in the market today. The e-voting terminals were initially deployed in certain locations but could potentially be used in the entire country in following elections.
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PressVote, a Joint Venture entity of Scytl and Mr. Vasilis Koulolias, implemented an in-chamber voting system in the Parliament of the State of Nuevo Leon (Mexico). The system allowed the members of the Parliament of Nuevo Leon to cast votes and speak from their seats by electronic means in a convenient and secure manner. The PressVote system also included large plasma screens, a system to control attendance of the members of the parliament and secret voting when needed.
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Scytl, in alliance with Gov2U, was selected by the Consensus Consortium (composed by Localret, the Jaume Bofill Foundation and the Catalan Institute of Technology) to develop the e-participation platform Consensus. Over 3 million citizens from 63 Spanish cities can participate in the decision making of their local authorities through Consensus which represents one of the largest e-democracy projects worldwide.
In december 2005, The Government of Mendoza, Argentina chose Pnyx.labour to carry out Latin America's first binding election through the Internet. 15.000 doctors elected the medical Board for 14 medical specialties from 35 polling stations with PCs connected to the Internet. Scytl and HP worked together to guarantee the highest levels of security using the most reliable system combined with user-friendly interfaces and standard HP hardware for the voting terminals.
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The Parliament of Catalonia chose Pnyx.parliament as the main solution to encourage representatives to exercise their vote remotely when necessary (as in those cases specified by law like maternity leave, serious illness, etc.). Using Scytl's technology as a complementary tool for participation, the Parliament of Catalonia would be the first Parliament in Europe to test and implement a remote voting platform, enhancing its modern image and allowing its members to exercise their voting rights not regarding to their specific situation and using digital certificates.
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In June 2004, the City of Madrid organized Madrid Participa, the largest e-participation experience ever carried out in Europe, involving all the citizens from the Centre District of Madrid. The City of Madrid chose Scytl's Pnyx.government to carry out the e-consultations in which 135,000 citizens were allowed to vote through the Internet and mobile phones. Scytl and Accenture led the project with the support of Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Intel and Telefonica. At present the City of Madrid continues using Pnyx.government to carry out e- consultations.
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The Union of Professional Business Graduates in Finland (Tradenomiliitto) chose Scytl's secure e-voting technology for the elections to their Council in May 2006. Internet was the only channel to cast votes in this election. TietoEnator, the leading IT consuting firm in the Scandinavian market, managed Scytl's e-voting solution and provided all the related services in this project.
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During the labour union elections of the Catalan Police Force in 2003, Scytl's Pnyx.labour was used with great success with the purpose of facilitating, to the members of the police force, the opportunity of casting their votes remotely via Internet and also through touchscreen voting terminals in supervised locations.
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Caixa d'Estalvis de Catalunya used Pnyx.labour to carry out an electronic voting test in its elections for the renewal of representatives of Government Bodies. The objective consisted mainly in evaluating the advantages, usability and reliability of this system for the future replacement of the costly present system.
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The Spanish Notary Public Council selected Pnyx.labour as the Internet voting platform to enable their members to cast their votes electronically in several elections. Approximately 70% of the notaries who participated in these elections chose the Internet as the voting channel over the conventional paper-based voting channels.
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For the 2003 elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, the Generalitat de Catalunya chose Pnyx.government as their technological platform to carry out the first remote electronic voting experience in a public election in Spain.
This initiative was approved by the Spanish Central Electoral Committee and allowed the Catalan citizens residing abroad to use the Internet to cast their votes.