Brazilian information security company Módulo Security Solutions last week
the joined the White House e-Commerce Working Group to present the firm’s
experience in online voting for Brazil’s most recent elections.
The committee, which was formed under the approval of vice president Al
Gore, was created to guide
President Bill Clinton in matters related to e-commerce, including the issue
of online voting. Present at the recent meeting were American company
Safevote Inc., Módulo’s
technology partner, and the Internet Voting Technology Alliance.
According to interviews which Módulo conducted with several U.S. state
authorities, many of which still use paper ballots, each vote costs tax
payers from $1.00 to $7.00. The American districts are already
considering the possibility of migrating from the traditional method to the
vote over the Internet.
“Due to demographic and territorial similarities of the two countries we
believe the work presented at the White House will be valuable for the
implementation of voting over the Internet in the United States,” said
Fernando Nery, Módulo’s board president. “The Brazilian election
project was
mentioned at the Microsoft site as one of the main security cases in the
world,” he added.
As in the traditional ballot system, the Internet vote needs secrecy,
legality and anonymity. Módulo and the American company Safevote
together are
developing the software and the protocols needed for this
application.
Safevote and Módulo also presented their safe vote solution over the
Internet in Mexico, Mozambique and Singapore.
