Possible Paper

A simple and economic system for “mobile voting” using paper ballots, which is easily applicable to elections of a national nature (Presidential, Parliamentary, Referenda, European Parliament) may be carried out through the following steps:

1. Two or three days before Election Day specifically open polling stations for a day for “mobile voting” in locations spread out through the country so that travel to the closest polling station from any point should be sufficiently short (e.g. within a chosen set of seats of local government). These votes would be guarded in the strictest security and counted once voting has finished on Election Day.
   
2. When the “mobility voting” had finished on the chosen early day, information regarding the voters who had cast a “mobile vote” would be sent in a secure manner to a central elections organisation so as to be marked in the electoral registers which would be present at the polling stations on the Election Day.
   
3. In the event that the number of “mobility votes received” in a given polling station were greater that a pre-established number, to statistically ensure that it would not be possible to identify the nature of the votes cast, the respective determination of the result would be carried out. If not, these votes would be grouped along with the votes from other polling stations before being counted (it should be noted that it is possible within a given polling station that there may be very few voters who cast a "mobility vote", even one or two, and thus put at risk the secrecy of the vote in the event that the results be determined in this polling station).

This process is greatly facilitated by the existence of electronic electoral registers, which are also useful for other reasons, such as efficient management of electoral registration and for logistical aspects to do with election organization.

If communications concerning which voters had cast a "mobility vote”, as envisaged in 2, were to be transmitted in a secure electronic format and could be matched with electronic electoral registers, then the advance period for the "mobility voting" could be reduced to the day before Election Day. In effect, electronic voting is only necessary to facilitate “mobility voting” if it is wished that this take place on the same Election Day, but the equipment, logistical and organisational costs and security risk limitations may make this inadvisable.

In the case of voting in local affairs, as is the case with local elections, the same procedure could be adopted, but taking the additional care outlined in point 3 by considering the vote counts of the polling stations within the same electoral district.