On 22-23 March 2007 officials of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan took part at OSCE/ ODIHR working meeting "Election Observation and Electronic Voting", which was held in Warsaw (Poland).
The goal of the meeting was discussion of OSCE/ODIHR Paper "Development of Guidelines for the Observation of Election Voting", which was drafted by ODIHR External Expert Mr. Jessie Pilgrim (USA) on the basis of proposals, raised at the initial experts meeting in July 2006.
Representatives of electoral bodies from Netherlands, United Kingdom, Estonia, Council of Europe, European Parliament, European Commission, NGOs from USA, Ukraine, Russian Federation, Croatia, Belgium and Netherlands, as well as OSCE/ODIHR experts took part at the meeting.
It was noted that today only technical standards of e-voting are available while there is no methodology for observing e-voting from the view of implementation by OSCE participation countries of their commitments in the field of democratic elections.
Within the framework of the meeting the issues of legal regulation of e-voting, certification and testing of the system, security of the entire system and its functioning, audits of the system, voter accessibility and education, election administration and training of polling station official in operating the voting system, recounts and challenges to results and other were actively discussed. Practice of USA, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, Estonia, Kazakhstan and Russian Federation was represented as examples for e-voting.
Experts, who made presentations at the meeting, stressed that e-voting model in Kazakhstan, which in comparison with a range of West European countries was introduced recently, has already proved itself from the positive side.
In particular, US expert Mr. Douglas Jones, who took part in observation of 2005 presidential elections in Kazakhstan, as a positive example mentioned effective regulation of electronic voting in the national electoral legislation, transparency of the Central Election Commission, accessibility of technical documentation of Automated Information System "Saylau" to international observers.

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