“Every Vote Counts. Electronic Voting and Counting” Electronic Voting at Polling Stations Study Commission in the Netherlands

 Equal suffrage: Given the Dutch electoral system, each voter is permitted to cast one vote per election, which is counted once only in the counting of votes;  Accessibility: Voters must be given every opportunity to participate directly in the election process. If this is not possible, there must be an opportunity to participate indirectly by the granting of a proxy;  Transparency: The electoral process must be clear in its structure and organisation so that, in principle, everyone can understand it. The electoral process holds no secrets. It must be possible for questions to be answered and the answers must be verifiable;  Verifiability: The electoral process must be objectively verifiable. The control tools may differ, depending on the method of voting decided on;  Free suffrage: In casting his/her vote, every voter must be able to make his/her choice in complete freedom, without being influenced;  Secret suffrage: It must be impossible to make a link between the identity of the individual casting the vote and the content of the vote cast. The process must be organised in such a way that it is impossible to tell in which way he or she has voted;  Fairness: The electoral process must take place in a correct manner and it must be impossible to influence the result other than by the casting of legal votes.