Solutions | Remote e-Voting (Internet Voting)|Pnyx.Government

Scytl's internet voting solution, Pnyx.Government, has been specially designed for public elections, allowing the carrying out of all kind of electoral processes (elections, referendums, surveys, citizen consultations, etc.) with the highest security standards and in a user-friendly manner.

Advantages over paper-based voting:

Compared to conventional paper-based voting, Pnyx.government provides the following advantages:
· Greater accuracy in the results: integrity measures prevent any accidental or voluntary loss or modification of the votes.
· Higher speed and accuracy in the vote counting process.
· Cost-effectiveness: the solution allows economies of scale
· Scalability: the solution can be adapted to different sizes of population
· Flexibility: the solution can be customized so that it complies with the customer's requirements
· Greater accessibility: remote participation from any device connected to the Internet

Main Features:
 

Security

· Only properly authenticated voters are allowed to participate.
· Voter privacy is protected at all times.
· The secrecy of partial results is guaranteed
· The integrity of the results is guaranteed, preventing the modification and deletion of votes and the addition of bogus votes.
 

Trust

· Every voter can individually verify (by means of voting receipts) that his/her vote has been properly counted.
·The verification system does not allow coercion or vote-selling.
· Control of the process is entirely in the hands of the Electoral Board, and cannot be manipulated by system technicians.
 

Accessibility

· The solution is user-friendly and adaptable for people with disabilities (e.g. blind and visually impaired citizens).
· Voters do not need to install any specific software, they only need a web browser.
· The solution supports multiple languages.
· The system can be used remotely from any place connected to Internet or from supervised locations (polling stations).
· Results are accessible and verifiable from the Internet with a web browser.

Success cases:

State of Florida (United States)

Scytl provided its secure Internet voting technology in the 2008 US Presidential election to allow the overseas voters registered in the State of Florida (Okaloosa County) to cast binding votes remotely. Pnyx was certified by the State of Florida in order to be used in a real election. The Operation Bravo Foundation, in partnership with the Supervisor of Elections of Okaloosa County and Election Trust, selected Pnyx for its unique capability to allow individual voters to verify that their ballots were received and counted.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France)

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has selected Scytl to offer a secure Internet voting platform to the French citizens living overseas. 310,000 French voters residing in Africa and America were able to cast votes over the Internet to elect their representatives to the Assemblée des Français de l'Etranger (AFE) from May 20 to June 4, 2009. Poll-site voting was held on June 7, 2009. The AFE will directly elect 12 Senators who will represent the French living overseas. This is a high-profile project in France in which Pnyx technology has been selected because of the security, reliability, auditability and trust.

Ministry of Science and Research (Austria)

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.