Smartmatic: Smartmatic´s blog about Elections

Voting, and more broadly elections, are not unlike the weather in that everybody talks about it but not much is actually done about it.

Twenty-five years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, the country went to the polls to designate the 400 members of the 2019 National Assembly.

Would have the fate of Westeros been entirely different if they have had elections, and a fierce Commission to manage them since the beginning? Most probably so!

The lack of competition in the United States has resulted in insufficient innovation in the elections industry which has dampened voter confidence in election systems.

Since 2005, Estonia has been making global headlines because of its successful and secure i-voting system.

Technology is transforming the way election commissions manage the entire election cycle, from automated systems to register candidates and voters, to advanced online platforms to facilitate remote voting or digital applications to announce timely results.