E-Democracy

Registration on the voter lists Since 2009, Issy is experimenting a new online service: the on-line registration on the voter lists. A real success, this practice increased by more than 20% after only a 6 month trial!

Voting machines to gain time during vote counting procedure Issy's citizens vote using these machines which are accessible to everyone, simple, reliable, certified and confidential. Before The voting machine has three goals: economic and material (saving on poll organisation costs and saving time on results counting operations at the end of the ballot); environmental (suppressing the ballot papers) and civic sense (allowing an easier access to voting procedures for disabled people).

Voting machines used by municipalities have to be certified by the Ministry of Home Affairs, thus giving the insurance that the voting machine complies with all legal requirements and that its use is adapted to polling constraints.

Since 1995, Issy-les-Moulineaux has been testing different digital voting systems: voting machines, voting terminals (voting machine linked to a central server), and online voting, notably for the district councils elections in December 2002 and December 2005.

Note: Voting machines are used in all polling stations since spring 2007 elections. ■

the opening of the polling stations, each member of each station controls the settings of the machines installed and checks that each candidate meter is set to zero. The station members sign a special ticket and the ballot is then declared open.