About the Voting Technology Project

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 12:41.

Established by Caltech President David Baltimore and MIT President Charles Vest in December 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Since establishment, members of the VTP have studied all aspects of the election process, both in the United States and abroad. VTP faculty, research affiliates, and students have written many working papers, published scores of academic articles and books, and worked on a great array of specific projects.

Evaluating New Voting Technologies in Latin America

Submitted by gbain on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:48.
Working Paper No.: 
93
Date Published: 
12/14/2009
Author(s): 
R. Michael Alvarez, Caltech
Gabriel Katz, Caltech
Julia Pomares, London School of Economics

Having remained virtually unchanged since the enactment of universal and secret suffrage at the end of the nineteenth century, voting procedures are undergoing a radical transformation in many countries through the introduction of electronic methods of voting. Almost 30 countries around the world are currently in process of testing or implementing electronic voting, and in at least 10 countries e-voting is the main method used to elect national representatives (Alvarez and Hall 2008; Pomares 2009).

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