COSTA RICA TESTING ONLINE ELECTIONS

Tony Barry (tony@ningaui.anu.edu.au)
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:06:45 +1000

>From EDUPAGE -

COSTA RICA TESTING ONLINE ELECTIONS
>With the help of students from Villanova University Law School, the
>government of Costa Rica is launching what appears to be the first test of a
>national election online, with hopes that if the test is successful, paper
>ballots will have been eliminated entirely by the next election in 2002.
>The project will use computers located in schools around the country and
>linked to the Internet, and security experts at AT&T Labs in New Jersey will
>help design and implement the system. (New York Times CyberTimes 22 Oct 97)

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