The shadow assistant minister for cyber security, Gai Brodtmann, has called for the government to classify Australia’s election systems as a “critical infrastructure sector” under the Trusted Information Sharing Network in order to “overlay the appropriate scrutiny and assurance mechanisms to assure the Australian people of the cyber resilience of their democracy”.
There has been a lot of interest suddenly in electronic voting, so I thought I would give some insight into what’s holding it back.
The former chief information officer of the New South Wales Electoral Commission who oversaw the development of its iVote Internet voting platform says that the partial use of electronic voting offers significant advantages, but doesn’t see a need for Australia to go ‘all-in’ with eVoting.
Coalition leader Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten have both endorsed Australia moving towards the use of electronic voting for federal elections.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has started working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SMS Management & Technology for the hosting of its online digital services.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is migrating IT infrastructure from the Tuggeranong Data Centre (TDC) to NextDC’s Canberra 1 data centre in the ACT.
The Australian Electoral Commission has cautioned a parliamentary inquiry about rushing to implement a federal electronic voting scheme.
The Australian Electoral Commission has refused a Senate order to reveal the underlying source code of the EasyCount software used to tabulate votes in upper house elections.
The Senate today passed a motion requiring the release of the source code for software that is used to count votes in upper house elections.
An online enrolment website has been launched which will allow Australians to enrol to vote online.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) will implement a web-based mapping service next year allowing its staff to better identify and locate Australians on the electoral role.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has flagged that it will adopt a raft of new recommendations aimed at assisting it to harness technology to modernise processes and engage more effectively with voters.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is to launch an Internet-based service aimed at helping voters locate their nearest polling booth during the next federal election.