Belenios: the software to vote at home – Europe1

Europe 1 Published at 7:38, December 14, 2015 , Modified at 8:17, December 14, 2015

The innovation of today: an electronic system that could help us tomorrow to vote from our home.

56% of the French would be able to home internet Researchers from CNRS of Nancy therefore working on the development of Belenios software that aims to become the most successful system safety.
Because the issue with the internet is obviously that a newsletter from a computer can get without being read or modified in the electronic ballot box.

But electronic voting already exists for certain professional elections, what is new?

The vote distance already exists, the French overseas also could vote by Internet during the last legislative elections, but we can blame the systems developed by private companies for their lack of transparency. No one really knows how they work while the CNRS software, which will be available next year, it will be totally transparent.
Insiders will know how to work the safety.

Electronic voting from home, it is a solution for the future or not?

Some countries like Estonia have already widespread. Switzerland and Australia also are testing.
Here in France, we will say that yes it is a promising solution to replace postal voting but other than that, the vote on the urn remains higher.
polling booth and slipped the ballot in a ballot box that monitors was nothing much better against fraud that remote voting does not improve participation.