31 March 2008

GPPi Associate moderates panel at the Overseas Vote Foundation UOCAVA Summit 2008

GPPi Project Associate Fabian Breuer moderated a panel entitled “Online, Internet-based Voting for Overseas and Military Voters” at the Overseas Vote Foundation "UOCAVA" Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act Summit 2008.

The Summit, which took place in Munich on 3-4 April 2008, addressed US overseas and military voting issues and challenges. The event brought together a multi-stakeholder group (technologists, innovators, members of congress, election officials, secretaries of state, academics and members of the press) to discuss the following issues: The power of the internet to democratize voting information and access to all US citizens globally; the potential of online, internet-based voting for overseas and military voters and reservations surrounding its implementation; the Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA); strategies and actions for reaching out to overseas and military voters; and how other countries help their expatriates vote and how to learn from these examples.

In particular, the panel “Online, Internet-based Voting for Overseas and Military Voters” focused on the possibilities and risks of internet and electronic voting as a new voting channel and related views from both inside and outside of the US. To discuss these issues, the panel consisted of a pro and a con team and two vendors. Breuer moderated this panel due to his expertise in the fields of direct democracy and internet voting, which he developed in the academic coordination of the European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) and through a number of activities and reports for the Council of Europe on the Estonian internet voting experience.

For more details and to see the program of the event, please click here.

To view the UOCAVA Summit agenda and list of speakers, please click here.

For further information, please contact Fabian Breuer.

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