Election Security
Verifiability
Post-Election Audits
The use of technologies in elections, e.g. biometric voter registration and identification systems, ballot marking, optical scan, and other electronic vote collecting and counting technologies, but also implementations of apportionment methods, post-election auditing methods, dispute resolution systems, etc., promise more accurate and more efficient ways to run elections, but they are not without risks. Programming mistakes, configuration errors, cyberattacks, disinformation, and other operational challenges threaten public trust. We assist governmental, non-governmental, international public and private organizations to anticipate challenges and to minimize risks while maximizing trustworthiness of election technologies.
DemTech Group helps interpreting legal framework in the local context, points out best practices, provides input throughout the law-making process, and assess the societal impact of election technologies.
DemTech Group assists election management bodies to anticipate, react, and counteract disinformation campaigns.
DemTech Group helps election management bodies to plan, tender, and configure election technolgies and to train election officals.
DemTech Group conducts design reviews, source code reviews, security reviews, and penetration tests.
DemTech Group helps election management bodies to resolve challenging situations, anticipate and manage cybersecurity incidents, and recover from issues during elections.
DemTech Group assists election management bodies to transition towards evidence-based elections, consults on the introduction of risk-limiting audits, and facilitate dialogues with civil society organizations, vendors, and government.
DemTech Group's customers include Election Commission of New South Wales, Victoria Election Commission, Swiss Federal Chancellery, German Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs, Digitaliseringsstyrelsen (Denmark), Wirtschaftskammer Österreich, World Health Organization, and the African Development Bank. We have organized specialized training workshops for Norway, Egypt, Mongolia, Lithuania, and Åland. We are also consulting with the Carter Center, Venice Commission (Council of Europe), NDI, OSCE, and International IDEA.
Carsten Schürmann
Director, Professor
Denmark
email: carsten@demtechgroup.com
phone: +45 26393606