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[E-Government News] MTQ In this regard and for safe e-voting, the European Union has set up a number of legal criteria to organize the operation, making it easily accessible, easy to use, giving priority to people of special needs, preventing double voting, allowing the voter to change of choice or cancel his vote. Bahrain News Agency (BNA) has listed e-voting experiences and their positive outcome in the US Presidential elections of 2004, congress elections, UK elections of 2003, elections in Canada, Holland and Estonia in addition to the experience of Brazilian which has 115 million voters and entered the e-voting era, acquiring for the purpose around 406 machines with touch-operated screens that covered all the state’s territories.

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http://www.j-dom.org [J-dom.org] Jason Kitcat: online community consultant > Bahrain Balderdash: There is nobody there with a deep technical or theoretical understanding of e-voting and not a single voice which might be considered slightly dissenting. This is not a surprise for Bahrain but still shameful that Avi Rubin, Barbara Simons, Bruce Schneier, David Dill, Rebecca Mercuri, Peter G Neumann, Doug Jones, Bryan Pfaffenberger or one of the other deeply intelligent people with concerns over e-voting wasn't invited.

[Egovonline.net] egov : News: The workshop was held as follow-up to the Bahrain e-Voting Forum, organised earlier this year by the Bahrain Information Technology Society (BITS), in co-operation with the United Nations Information and Communication Technology for Development in the Arab Region division and the Bahrain Election and Referendum Directorate. It was addressed by Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) IT director general Mohammed Al Qaed and two consultants on the e-Voting project and it targetted to teach people about the e-Voting system to be used in the forthcoming municipal and parliament elections.

[Egovnews.org] E-Government News » 2006 » January: Election and referendum director Shaikha Muneera bint Abdulla Al Khalifa described the e-voting in Bahrain as a genuine experiment of democratic transformation to the horizons of the 21st century. She said the e-voting technology would be available for the forthcoming elections.

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