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OASIS
Election & Voter Services Technical Committee
John BorrasOffice of e-EnvoyCabinet OfficeUK Government May 2002
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Overview
OASIS is a member-lead consortium dedicated to building systems interoperability specifications
We focus on industry applications of structured information standards, such as XML, SGML, and CGM.
Members of OASIS are providers, users and specialists of standards-based technologies and include organizations, government, individuals and industry groups. – ~200 organizational members, ~250 individual members
International, not-for-profit, open, independent Successful through industry-wide collaboration
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OASIS technical agenda
The OASIS technical agenda is set by the members; bottom-up approach
Technical committees formed by the proposal of members
Attempt to cooperate and liaise with other standards organizations as much as possible
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OASIS standards process
Standards are created under an open, democratic, vendor-neutral process– Any interested parties may participate, comment
– No one organization can dictate the standard
– Ensures that standards meet everyone’s needs, not just largest players’
Open to all interested parties All discussion open to public comment Resulting work is guaranteed to be representative
of the industry as a whole, not just any one vendor’s view
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Progression of OASIS technical work
1. Any three OASIS members propose creation of a technical committee (TC)
2. Existing technical work submitted to TC; or TC starts work at the beginning
3. TC conducts and completes technical work; open and publicly viewable
4. TC votes to approve work as an OASIS Committee Specification
5. TC votes to submit the Committee Specification to OASIS membership for consideration
6. OASIS membership reviews, approves the Committee Specification as an OASIS Standard
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E&VS Technical Committee
Overview & Progress
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election
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History
• Formed March 2001– election.com, Accenture, Microsoft
• Inaugural Meeting May 2001
• Chairmanship changed August 2001
• Chair: Anwar Choudhury, UK Office of E-Envoy
• Monthly meetings and workshops to date– Teleconference and face-to-face
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Committee Membership
• Governments– UK, USA, Italy, France, Australia, NZ– European Parliament
• Corporations• Election service providers• Open source groups• Media• Election reform and watchdog groups
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Committee Charter“The purpose of the Election and Voter Services Technical Committee is to develop a standard for the structured interchange of data among hardware, software, and service providers who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter services to public or private organizations. The services performed for such elections include but are not limited to voter role/membership maintenance (new voter registration, membership and dues collection, change of address tracking, etc.), citizen/membership credentialing, redistricting, requests for absentee/expatriate ballots, election calendaring, logistics management (polling place management), election notification, ballot delivery and tabulation, election results reporting and demographics.”
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Deliverables
Election Markup Language (EML) Data interchange standards to support
voting processes Defined as XML schemas
Facilitate all aspects of election and voter services, public and private
Sanctioned through OASIS
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Why Interchange Standards?
• Need for information to be exchanged at several points in the election process
• Several parties involved
• Need to service dissimilar systems and equipment
• Open process
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Why XML?
• Widely accepted open standard
• Ability to support disparate systems
• Text based
• Easy to understand and implement
• Extensible
• International
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Voting Processes and Data Requirements Document
• Outlines voting processes
• Identifies data requirements
• Identifies applications
• Identifies audit points
• Contains glossary of terms
• Addresses security issues
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XML Schemas Documents
• Overview of approach taken in preparing the schemas, eg structure, conventions, Namespaces
• Links to external schemas, eg XML Signature, xNAL, Timestamp
• 17 Individual schemas
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Scenarios
• Examples of how schemas can be used in specific situations, eg National elections, local elections, referendum, Annual General Meetings, favourite pop star, etc
• Country specific to reflect national rules
• Reflect different voting regimes, eg First Past Post, Preferential, etc
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Targeted Services
Pre electionElection
Candidates
Voters
ElectionVoting
Post electionResults
Audit
Analysis
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CANDIDATES
VOTERS
Candidate Nomination Response Candidate Nomination
NominationProcess
Decision
AcceptedNomineesRepository
Candidate List
Register Voter
communicatewith v oter
Voter Registration
General VotersData
Repository
Other - VotersRepository
Comm with Oher Repository
Election List
Eligible VotersRepository f orthis Election
Change ofAddress or
OtherRepository
ElectionProcesse
s
VotesRepository
Count Votes
RESULT
Analy se Votes/Results
VOTING
RESULTS
Election
CANDIDATES
VOTERS
VOTING
RESULTS
AUDIT
ELECTION
Audit
AUDIT
Scrutiny
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510 - Count / Result
330 - Election List230 - Candidate List
ElectronicBallot
VoteCasting
ReportAnalysis
460 - Votes
210 - Nominations
CandidatesDB
220 - Response320 - Inter DB
310 -Voter Registration
Voter DB Other DB
110 - Election Event
HelpDesk
Admin
Voter ChannelGateway
Postal /PaperBallot
PhysicalGateway
CANDIDATES
VOTERS
VOTING
RESULTS
AUDIT
ELECTION
340 - Polling Information
350 - Generic
360 - Channel Options
Counting System
DemographicInformation
Audit
ScrutinyResult
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Distribution System
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Security
Key security requirements are:
Identity authentication
Right to vote authentication
Vote sealing and non-repudiation of vote accuracy
Vote confidentiality
Voting Audit
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Milestones
• EML version 1 agreed by TC - May 2002– Voting Process Document
– 17 XML schemas
• Version 2 underway
• Testing / validation - on going
• OASIS ratification - End 2002?
• Future - maintenance / enhancements
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Future work
• Future versions to include features not addressed or missed in Version I
• Wider participation by other Governments and suppliers
• Accommodate other election systems
• Ongoing enhancements and review
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Thank you for your attention
Any Questions?
[email protected] no. +44 (0)20 7276 3101
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/election