Geneva, Switzerland, residence

Creating a Swiss-level electoral system in North America

The Swiss experience in creating, through a partnership of state government, a local Internet security company, and a division of a global technology behemoth, a workable, secure, functioning and popular remove Internet voting system was cited in a recent California Politics Today article entitled "Let's use HAVA money to build Smart Initiatives- and remote Internet voting-ready digital voter databases".

Because the world's most secure and advanced remote Internet voting system belonged to a Swiss canton, it hasn't been that easy for proponents of secure remote voting in elections in the United States to work with this system's owners to that end.

Now, however, as reported in the First Quarter 2005 edition of the ThinkGlobal(sm) Massachusetts International Trade Newsfolio™:

Swiss Firm Opens Boston Office

WISeKey of Geneva opened a new office in Boston in January 2005 to serve as the headquarters of WISeKey USA. It is dedicated to exclusively serve the U.S. market and international corporations and organizations with headquarters in the U.S. Boston was chosen for its proximity to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. WISeKey provides a variety of Internet security management services and products."

WISeKey announced this development itself in a press release entitled, "WISeKey will open a new office in Boston USA in January 2005. This new office will be the headquarters of WISeKey USA.

With the establishment of this digital beachhead by the Swiss company that helped build the GSeVS, one can now hope that the pace of electoral innovation in North America will accelerate and that government officials and everyday voters will get more deeply involved in the on-going effort to create and deploy secure remote Internet voting systems throughout the United States and Canada.

Towards Etopian Elections

For more materials about the early days of Internet voting (1994-2000), visit the web site with links to the eleven chapters of Etopian Elections: Internet Voting, Smart Initiatives, and the Future of (Electronic) Democracy.

You can also access Etopian Elections: Internet Voting, Smart Initiatives, and the Future of (Electronic) Democracy in PDF format.

To see and hear a call for universal and ubiquitous broadband Internet access, which, together with a robust and secure remote Internet voting system, could usher in an era of global participatory democracy, click here.

Geneva, Switzerland, panorama, showing Lake Geneva

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