{{notability|Companies|date=October 2014}} '''Safevote''' Inc. is a U.S. company with proprietary voting technology<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/01/41137|title=Make Your Vote (Machine) Count|author=Manjoo, Farhad|date=January 12, 2001|publisher=Wired|accessdate=March 18, 2012}}</ref><ref name="PCWorld">{{cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/38262-2/privacy_watch.html|title=Privacy Watch: Can the Internet Save Democracy?|author=Brandt, Andrew|date=January 19, 2001|publisher=PC World Magazine|accessdate=March 18, 2012}}</ref> and global internet election experience. Safevote is privately held, with the majority of capital in the U.S. Safevote's voting technology has been used with the internet,<ref name="PCWorld"/> offline, and in combination, in the private and public sectors. The technology has been used in legally binding elections in Africa, Brazil, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States for hundreds of thousands of voters, and an official public-voting shadow election test in the United States 2000 election (in Contra Costa County, California) for 307 voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/26/business/technology-brazilian-company-is-hacking-its-way-up.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm|title=Technology; Brazilian Company Is Hacking Its Way Up|author=Rich, Jennifer L.|date=February 26, 2001|work=New York Times|page=3|accessdate=March 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://safevote.com/onlineballot.htm Contra Costa County Shadow Election Report]</ref>

==Reception== Safevote contributed to the non-partisan voting newsletter "The Bell", which last edition was issued in February 2001, and is available online.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thebell.net |title=Newsletter on Internet Voting |publisher=The Bell |date= |accessdate=2012-03-14}}</ref>

==Publications== * "The Witness-Voting System", by Ed Gerck, invited opening chapter in "Towards Trustworthy Elections, New Directions in Electronic Voting", published by Springer Verlag. Chaum, David, et al. (Ed.), (c) 2010, pages 1–36. {{ISBN|1-4020-7301-1}}. * "Private, Secure And Auditable Internet Voting", by Ed Gerck, in the book "Secure Electronic Voting", published by Kluwer/Spring, Gritzalis, Dimitris (Ed.), 2003, 240 p. {{ISBN|1-4020-7301-1}}. * "The Business of Electronic Voting" panel with Ed Gerck, C. Andrew Neff, Ronald L. Rivest, Aviel D. Rubin, and Moti Yung, p.&nbsp;243-268, Paul F. Syverson (Ed.): Financial Cryptography, 5th International Conference, FC 2001, Grand Cayman, British West Indies, February 19–22, 2002, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2339 Springer 2002, {{ISBN|3-540-44079-8}}.

==See also== * Election technology

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * Safevote [http://safevote.com Official website]

Category:Privately held companies of the United States Category:Online companies of the United States Category:Election technology companies Category:Electronic voting companies

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