Smartmatic's blog about electronic voting
The reasons to deploy electronic voting systems vary substantially from country to country. Low public trust in elections and electoral authorities in most Latin American countries is another of the reasons mentioned for the growing adoption of election technology.
In a previous post, some reasons for a growing deployment of election technology services in Latin America were mentioned.
There is no doubt that technology itself can have a hugely positive impact in developing democracies.
Needless to say, to close the gender equality gap in most economic, political and technological fields is still an imperative pending task in 2017.
The British authorities seem to have been listening. Recently, the government announced a number of measures to strength the electoral system and eliminate electoral fraud.
2016 was a year marked by electoral surprises. From UK, and all the way to Colombia, elections proved that no result is guaranteed until the last voter casts his or her ballot.