The Commission on Elections (Comelec) won the Accessibility Award in this year’s International Electoral Awards recently held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Philippine poll body got the sought-after recognition from the UK-based International Centre for Parliamentary Studies (iCPS) for its
Smartmatic delivers another successful automated election in Venezuela
Smartmatic, the elections company, delivered yet another successful automated project in Venezuela as it deployed the technological voting platform used in last Sunday´s elections. In approximately ten hours 2,792 municipal posts were elected among 16,088 candidates. Some 11.2 million
Queensland sets up electronic voting for handicapped people
Queensland’s government announced to Parliament that it would be introducing a series of electoral reforms with the aim of improving its voting system and offering higher integrity and auditability. One of the innovations will enable visually impaired voters to cast
Children in Ecuador test out electronic voting
On Friday, November 22, approximately 467 Ecuadoran children at the Francisco José de Caldas Teaching Unit participated in a student government election for next year. The election took place using an in-person electronic voting system that was customized to enable
Continued progress in Ecuador’s introduction of electronic voting
In February 2014, the Ecuadoran provinces of Azuay and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas will introduce e-voting in local elections. For this reason, the country’s National Election Council has ramped up training on the voting platform, which will be subjected
Jersey looks into implementing e-voting
Politicians from the British island of Jersey recently voted in favor of conducting a viability study regarding electronic voting. The investigation would be designed to facilitate the voting process in the country’s public elections. Some of the topics to be