About the author
This website is edited by Ardita Driza Maurer. Ardita has +20 years experience as a legal expert in the field of regulation of use of ICT in elections.
She also works on issues of citizen participation.
As an independent consultant, Ardita works with international organisations, namely the Council of Europe, Venice Commission, OSCE/ODIHR, UNDP, and national ones. She joined the University of Zurich/Zentrum for Demokratie Aarau in 2017 as a researcher. She works on a PhD Thesis on the constitutional principle of freedom to vote and its application to e-voting.
As lead-expert she coordinated expert’s work on the Committee of Ministers Guidelines on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in electoral processes in Council of Europe member States, approved on 9 February 2022. She also led the group of experts and the updating work of the Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on standards for e-voting, approved by the Committee of Ministers in June 2017. She contributed to the work of the Group of experts on e-voting (EXVE) called by the Swiss federal Chancellery in 2017-2018 to study the future development of e-voting in Switzerland and issue recommendations to the attention of the Federal Council. Ardita has been mandated by international organisations to conduct studies on ICT in elections in several countries, including Albania, Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine.
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From e-voting to e-electing, e-collecting and e-petitioning, electoral and electronics are increasingly being conjugated together. Use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the electoral processes needs to be regulated and regulation itself should be constitutionally compliant. This website discusses the regulatory aspects of use of ICT in electoral processes in Switzerland, in Europe and beyond.
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