California Internet Voting Task Force
January 18, 2000

The California Internet Voting Task Force was convened by Secretary of State Bill Jones to study the feasibility of using the Internet to conduct elections in California. More than two dozen experts in the field of data security, elections and voter participation were asked to volunteer their time and expertise in the development of this report. The recommendations, analysis and suggested technical requirements that follow represent the collective opinion of the task force.

Final Report Online

Executive Summary

• Opinion of the Task Force

• Definitions of Internet Voting
• Evolution of Internet Voting
• Internet Voting Process
• Technical Issues
• State and Federal Election Laws
• Impact on County Election Officials
• Public Acceptance

• Regular Task Force Members

• What is Internet Voting
• Brief History of Voting Systems

• Comprehensive vs. Incremental Approaches to Internet Voting
• Model of a Remote Internet Voting System
• Implementation of Internet Voting
• Four Stages of Internet Voting

• Additional Convenience to Voters May Help Improve Participation
• Voter Accessibility to the Internet
• Internet vs. Paper Ballot Voters
• Procedural Differences Between Precinct, Paper Absentee Internet Voting

Online

1. Scope of the Technical Committee Report
2. General conclusions of the Technical Committee
3. Internet voter registration
4. Internet Petition Signing
5. Internet Voting
6. Security in i-voting
7. Internet voter education and support
8. General Requirements for i-voting systems
9. Requirements for the Vote Server Data Center (VSDC)
10. Requirements for the Internet Voting Process
11. Glossary

• Public Policy Institute of California Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government, December 1999

• Final Report (not including Appendix A) - Online HTML (98k) | Word Doc (932k)  | Adobe PDF (146k)
• Appendix A - Online HTML (145k) | Word Doc (330k)  | Adobe PDF (664k)
• Final Report and Appendix A in Word format (zipped to 260k)