Ministry of Justice (UK)
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. Scytl’s 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.
Commission on Elections (Philippines) 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.
Victorian Electoral Commission (Australia)
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.
Okaloosa County (United States)
Scytl will provide 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.
European Union
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 is 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 will be responsible primarily for the security and mobility aspects
of the project.
Canton of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
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
two in the world that is permanently used to carry out binding
elections and consultations through Internet.
Ministry of Justice (Finland) Scytl and its partner for the Scandinavian market, TietoEnator, have won a contract with the Ministry of Justice in Finland to supply secure e-voting terminals for the 2008 municipal elections. These terminals will incorporate the most advanced security features available in the market today. The e-voting terminals will be initially deployed in certain locations but could potentially be used in the entire country in following elections.
Parliament of Nuevo Leon (Mexico) 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.
Localret (Spain) 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.
Government of Mendoza (Argentina)
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.
Parliament of Catalonia (Spain) 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. Success Case
City of Madrid (Spain)
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.
Tradenomiliitto (Finland)
The Union of Professional Business Graduates in Finland (Tradenomiliitto) has chosen Scytl's secure e-voting technology for the elections to their Council in May 2006. Internet will be the only channel to cast votes in this election. TietoEnator, the leading IT consuting firm in the Scandinavian market, will manage Scytl's e-voting solution and provide all the related services in this project.
Catalan Police Force (Spain)
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.
Caixa d´Estalvis de Catalunya (Spain) 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.
The Spanish Notary Public Council (Spain) 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.
Government of Catalonia (Spain)
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.
