In the sections that follow, we will first give an overview of e-voting from a European perspective. We argue that the standards show a lack of ambition and propose how they could play a much more ambitious role in upholding the principles of freedom and democracy across Europe. In section 4, we argue that a requirement for the standards to successfully meet this new ambition is the incorporation of software engineering good practice into the drafting of the documentation. In section 5 we demonstrate one alternative for restructuring the document based on the right that each standard is aiming to uphold. In section 6 we analyse the restructuring work done with reference to examples. In our conclusions, we make recommendations to the CoE regarding the management and maintenance of these standards, and emphasise that they need to broaden their membership to include experts in technology, science, engineering and mathematics.