For the third time since 2002, the inhabitants of Issy (Paris, France) elected their representatives to the District Councils via Internet, from 1 to 8 December. Extelia, a subsidiary compagny of La Poste, was chosen by tender to organize an election 100% full web.
On a voluntary basis (it should register in advance on an electoral list specifically created), 1659 inhabitants of Issy-les-Moulineaux (16% more than December 2005) had the possibility to vote by Internet from home, office or a polling station installed in their neighborhood, to elect four representatives to the college of inhabitants. 1176 votes were cast (a participation rate of 71%, up 7%). Each voter was given a week before the election code identifying hidden, enclosed, ensuring full confidentiality of the ballot. Once connected to the platform, they had to take this code, select its candidates and validate or modify their choice.
The counting, in less than half an hour, took place
December 8 in the presence of Andre Santini, mayor of
Issy-les-Moulineaux and Minister of State for Public Service, three
auditors (which followed the implementation of the ballot
throughout the process), candidates and more than a hundred residents
of the town.
"After the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, MACIF (4.5 million voters over three years) and recently the station that has chosen for the election next March its staff and delegates Committee business is another success for the solution of electronic voting Extelia, whose heart is the result of cryptographic European research project CyberVote, said Eric Benolaut, CEO of Extelia. Increased demand for simplification of procedures for voting on the part of voters and our expertise in electronic voting open to Extelia promising prospects for years to come. "Extelia was born on November 2008 of the resumption of" Outsourcing process customers' group Experian by the group La Poste. Within Docapost, the holding company of solutions and document services group La Poste, Extelia is a subsidiary dedicated to managing back-office outsourcing of customer relations. With 1600 employees at 25 sites in France, has done in Extelia 2008 turnover of 230 million €, on behalf of numerous clients involved in the banking and insurance, transport, services and utilities, telecommunications, administration and professions.
The city of Issy-les-Moulineaux had participated from 2000 to 2003, the European research project CyberVote, with the cities of Bremen (Germany) and Stockholm (Sweden), EADS (France), the center recheche Nokia (Finland), the research center of British Telecom (UK) and the University of Eindhoven (Netherlands). As part of this European project that took place in December 2002 the first Internet elections neighborhood councils of Issy-les-Moulineaux. Internet voting was then used in the elections of neighborhood councils in December 2005 under the European project e-Agora, Academy of electronic democracy. Meanwhile, the vote by voting machine has been widespread, after several trials since 1995, during the French 2007 presidential elections.
