Key documents

E-voting

. Recommendation Rec (2004)11 on legal,

  operational and technical standards for

  e-voting

. E-voting handbook - implementation of

  e-enabled elections

. Guidelines on certification of e-voting

  systems

. Guidelines on transparency of e-enabled

  elections

. Reports of biennial Reviews 2008 and

  2010

. Council of Europe studies on e-voting

. National developments on e-voting

 

E-democracy

. Recommendation (2009)1 on

  e-democracy and Explanatory

  memorandum

  (PdF version   -  Word version)

. Practical tools to Rec(2009)1

. Glossary of technical terms in the field

  of electronic democracy

 

Internet governance

. Recommendation (2004)15 and

  explanatory memorandum

 

UN WSIS/ IGF

Texts submitted by the Council of Europe

for:

. IGF 2010

. IGF 2009

. IGF 2008

. WSIS 2005

. WSIS 2003

 

Internet literacy

Internet literacy handbook

 

. Highway to democr@cy – the Council of

  Europe and the information society

. Guarding the watchdog – the Council of

  Europe and the media 

The EML standard

Paragraph 67 of Appendix III of Recommendation Rec(2004)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on legal, operational and technical standards for e-voting, states that the EML standard and supporting documentation are available on the Council of Europe website.

The following link to the OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee document repository gives access to OASIS EML v4.0 (EML v4.0.zip) i.e the latest available version of EML.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/documents.php?wg_abbrev=election

The files are compressed in a zip file. There are two PDF files (EML v4.0 process and data requirements, EML v4.0 schema descriptions) and one Excel file (EML v4.0 data dictionary). The technical files contain the XML schemas and these are the ones that need to be used to implement EML. They can be read by any EML editor such as XMLspy (as stated in the main pdf file).

Document Description
This document contains a high-level overview of the processes within an e-voting system and the data requirements of the flows between those processes. It also addresses security issuces relating to the exchange of data, and provides a glossary of terms to ensure full understanding by readers of the document. The approved schemes and schema descriptions are also provided.