Madrid, Spain, 16 October 2008

The Council of Europe convened a second meeting on 16 October 2008 to review developments in the field of e-voting since the last review meeting in November 2006.

The meeting was organised in Madrid, in the framework of the fourth session of its Forum for the Future of Democracy which was devoted to “e-democracy”. Member states agreed that the Recommendation on e-voting is still accurate and useful.

At the same time, however, the experts present at the meeting felt that in the light of experiences and developments in the field of e-voting during the last four years, it might be useful to develop some additional comments to certain parts of the Recommendation.

It was therefore agreed that the Secretariat of the Council of Europe would take inventory of the topics which member states feel would require such additional comments. Topics which were already mentioned during the meeting are certification (protection profiles) and observation.