Transcript Diapositiva 1

Presentation on the Electronically Managed Polling Station.
Ministry of the Interior. Spain.
7th European Conference of Electoral Management Bodies
“EVERY VOTER COUNTS” 22 - 23 June 2010
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THE ELECTRONICALLY MANAGED POLLING STATION
What
?
 The electronically managed polling station is a set of information
technology provided to make it easier for polling station staff to carry
out their duties on the election day.
Why
was it used at the European Parliament Elections held on June 2009
 Because in EPE there is only one electoral constituency
(a nationwide one), therefore the counting of the votes is
more simple.
?
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THE ELECTRONICALLY MANAGED POLLING STATION
Where
?
 Three cities: Lleida, Pontevedra and Salamanca
459
Polling stations
How
1.377
280.520
?
Members of polling stations
does the new system work
 Each polling station had:
► PRINTER
► LAP TOP WITH A
NATIONAL ID CARD
READER AND A GPRS
MODEM
OPTICAL
BARCODE
READER
►
Electors
► BALLOT PAPERS
WITH PRINTED
BARCODES
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PROCEDURE
POLLING STATION SET UP AND OPENING
 The “president” of the polling station inserts in the lap top the USB memory
stick that contains (encrypted) that polling station electors’ list, provided by the
Electoral Roll Office (Oficina del Censo Electoral).
 The poll opening form is filled out using the laptop. Data is directly captured
from the electors’ list. (Polling station members’ names and data are in that
list.)
 The poll opening form is printed, and signed, and a copy of it is
electronically send to the Centro de Recogida de Información-CRI- (
Information Compilation Center) CRIS are located at each one of the 52
Central Government Delegations, one by provincia, to centralize information
related to the elections during polling day. (I.e. opening of the polling stations,
turnout, preliminary results...)
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PROCEDURE
VOTING
 Quick and easy search in the electors’ list.
 If the elector identifies him/herself with the non electronic
National ID the polling station staff will search his/her data in
the Laptop (i.e. search by name, surname or NID number).
 If the elector has an electronic National ID (DNI-e),
he/she inserts it into the card reader device and
introduces the security pin.
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PROCEDURE
VOTING
Easy: the numbered voters’ list is printed. (No handwriting
needed.)
Once the vote has been cast, the software automatically
includes the voter’s name and ID number in the numbered
voters’ list.
 The polling station may print ballot papers whenever this is
considered to be necessary.
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PROCEDURE
POSTAL VOTE IS INCORPORATED
 Inmediate identification of the postal voters in the electors’ list.
Each envelope that contains the postal vote includes: the
electoral envelope with the ballot paper the elector chose, a
copy of the ID (only in Out of country voting) and a certificate
issued by the Electoral Roll Office.
This certificate had a barcode to identify the elector.
The optical barcode reader allows for the reading of those
data and the identification of the voter in the electors’ list.
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PROCEDURE
POLL CLOSING AND COUNTING OF THE VOTES
 The ballot box is opened and each ballot paper is read
with the optical barcode reader.
Thus:
 the vote counting sheet / form, that contains preliminary
results, is automatically filled out, without errors;
the incident report form is filled out and data is sent.
 The USB memory stick and the laptop hard disk are erased.
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PREMISES
 The EMPS (CAE) is a system supervised by:
The Central Electoral Commission
The Congress of Deputies (1st Chamber)
Constitutional Committee
 The EMPS makes the most of the ICTs to improve electoral
management.
 The EMPS is adapted to the Electoral Law provissions. No legal
reform was needed.
Organic Law 5/1985 on the General Election Regime (LOREG).
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MAIN ADVANTAGES
The electronically managed polling station is a
system...
With provides more guarantees and security.
No room for possible errors.
More effective.
The voter’s name is now easier to find in the electors’ list than with the
traditional system.
Data (poll opening information, turnout information and preliminary
results) are sent by electronic means to the CRIS, instead of sending
them by phone or PDAs.
Interesting: Center for Social Research evaluation study on the EMPS.
More ecofriendly and cost effective.
Less election materials are needed (i.e. ballot papers can be printed in
the polling stations).
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