Everyone
Counts Chooses SimpleNet for Hosting [October
27, 2004]
Companies
will combine to support U.S. National Student/Parent
Mock Election
SAN
DIEGO – October 27, 2004 – SimpleNet, a
premier provider of Web hosting, domain management,
email, and data center services, and Everyone Counts
(E1C), the leading provider of transparent Internet
voting systems, today announced a partnership to provide
the infrastructure for the upcoming U.S. National Student/Parent
Mock Election (http://www.nationalmockelection.org).
On the 28th of October, as many as 5
million students, teachers, and parents will participate
in this opportunity to learn about the U.S. elections
process and participate in a full-fledged national mock
election. Many of them are expected to vote via the
Internet, as opposed to a traditional paper ballot.
In the last two presidential election years alone, over
10 million students, parents and teachers have participated
in the mock election, including those from all 50 states,
Washington, D.C., and 14 other countries/territories
worldwide.
This year’s mock election will
use a high-volume version of the E1C election system
that functions similar to a traditional polling station
with multiple-voting being monitored by coordinators
at student voting sites. The E1C system’s versatility
enables electoral staff to set up elections as basic
as public polls and as sophisticated as E1C's secure
flagship, the Shared Trust Election. E1C has provided
successful elections for the United Kingdom Labor Party's
National Executive Committee, the first legally binding
online election in Australia, Cornell University Student
Elections, and the Eastern Washington State Student
Elections, to name a few. The E1C System will be hosted
in SimpleNet’s Revolutionary Data Center.
“The E1C system makes better use
of modern technology, such as cryptography and digital
signing, which makes it a better answer to today’s
questions about the integrity of voting systems,”
states Lori Steele, CEO of E1C. “The U.S. Government
has been authorized by the Help America Vote Act to
spent $3.9 billion in the states to upgrade voting equipment.
Some of the states have invested in a touch screen system
that is extremely expensive, immediately depreciates,
and doesn’t have a software system that can be
publicly examined. E1C provides a more robust and reliable
system for less than a quarter of the price.”
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