Smartmatic: Smartmatic´s blog about Elections

The Center for Digital Government recently announced the winners of its 4th annual Government Experience Awards.

Smartmatic’s online voting expert Mike Summers was showcased in CNBC’s recently aired feature story about online voting in America.

Trust in institutions is at an all-time low. People are viewing governments, NGOs, big business, and even media with growing suspicion.

The upcoming US Presidential election, more than any other in decades, will require massive voter education and outreach efforts to ensure voter participation to overcome fears of coronavirus and COVID-19.

COVID-19 has added a great number of challenges to the already difficult task of administering elections. In addition to being good election officials, these unsung heroes now need to be epidemiologists.

While many Americans will choose to vote by mail during this pandemic, we all know that in-person voting is not going to go away. Even states like Oregon that are fully vote by mail offer in-person voting and ballot drop-off