Moritz Strube, Technical Director of POLYAS, held a presentation on the history, present and future of the online voting system at INFORMATIK 2014. POLYAS has been successfully implemented for elections in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Finland since 1996. To date approximately 2.2 million ballots have been cast with the online software. In recent years the […]
The expert conference on administrative informatics and the legal informatics of the German Informatics Society (GI e.V. (Symposium on Administrative Information and Legal Systems)) was held in Berlin on 20 March 2014. With the topic “Secure online voting with E-POSTIDENT and POLYAS”, POLYAS presented the interface for identifying authorised voters with E-POSTIDENT. This interface facilitates the clear […]
With a workshop on the topic “Security solutions for online voting”, POLYAS participated in the fourth international meeting of national electoral commissions in Tbilisi, Georgia. At this congress from 24-26 February in Tbilisi, organised by the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies ICPS, there is a close exchange of national electoral commissions on the possibilities and […]
On the occasion of this year’s Bundestag election, the opinion research institution FORSA reported in a poll that 51 per cent of Germans would cast their vote online if given the opportunity. That is four per cent more than just four years ago.
With POLYAS, voters can be authenticated during an online vote with the customary PIN-TAN procedure and the electronic personal ID – or “eID” for short.Because of this application POLYAS won the main prize for the “eIDEE – Contest for the Digital Handshake” of the Bundesdruckerei on 29 November 2013. With this award the Bundesdruckerei distinguishes […]
For the committee and board election in 2013, the German Informatics Society (GI) utilised POLYAS as its online voting system once again. GI has been offering its members the opportunity to partake in the committee and board election online since 2005. This means that the GI has been trusting the POLYAS online voting system from the very start. Continue reading
On Tuesday, 27-8-2013, the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW) used POLYAS to fire the starting shot for the future of church democracy. With the push of a button the prelate of the Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck, Marita Natt, commenced the online election. Continue reading
A workshop on electronic elections will be held during the trade show “Informatik 2013” from 16 to 20 September. Under the title “I see what you don’t – public and private voting”, the current developments in the field of electronic elections, and especially voting through the internet, will be discussed. The main focus rests on […]
The online voting system POLYAS has been independent since 2012 and branched off into POLYAS GmbH. POLYAS is an online voting system developed by Micromata, and is able to look back on a sixteen-year success story. It all began in 1996 with the trilingual youth election in Finland. The product has since continued to be constantly developed and successfully implemented many times.