Anoto to Deliver Technology for E-voting System for Hamburg Elections

One of Anoto’s German partners, Diagramm Halbach, has won a European public tender for delivering an e-voting system solution based on Anoto digital pen and paper technology to the City of Hamburg for the elections in 2008.

In the initial phase Anoto is working in close cooperation with Diagramm Halbach to complete the necessary approval and certification processes. After completion of this process the project will be rolled out in full during late 2007. The potential for the project is 12 000 pens.

The project started with a pilot study that was conducted during the elections in Hamburg in September 2005 where trial elections were made in two separate election rooms where digital pen and paper were used. The result was very positive and exceeded the expectations of the authorities.

“E-voting is an emerging trend and for Anoto this is an extremely interesting and potentially very big market. We know that the voting authorities are facing problems with counting the voting results, complex voting slip procedure as well as having to wait for the results. This is where the benefits of Anoto’s technology come into play. The immediate data transfer gives quick voting results while still allowing paper-trail and manual counting of the votes for control purposes. Also, using a pen and paper is uncomplicated and comes natural to the voters,” says Anders Norling, CEO of Anoto Group AB