1. On April 14th 2013, Venezuela will choose a President for the 2013-2019 term. María Bolívar, Henrique Capriles, Nicolás Maduro, Eusebio Méndez, Julio Mora, Reina Sequera and Fredy Tabarquino are the seven candidates who will take part in the race,
Smartmatic: much more than innovative voting machines
The execution of a transparent national election, that is efficiently executed and yields legitimate results, represents a huge challenge that requires a careful planning of all the numerous steps of the electoral process, the collection and processing of a considerable
What is Global Elections Day?
Valentine’s Day may be this month’s most famous date (after all, it’s the second most celebrated day in the world – after New Year’s Day). But there’s another day in February we should all remember, too. Global Elections Day was
Past and future of the world leader in voting automation
For the last 12 years, Smartmatic has cemented its position as the world leader in voting automation thanks to successful deployments in Venezuela, the Philippines, the United States, Belgium and Brazil, among other countries. The figures of our executed projects
Obama votes with Smartmatic voting machine
As if conducting successful elections in Venezuela and Belgium, and providing various electoral services for the two rounds of the municipal elections in Brazil in the span of one month was not enough, Smartmatic, the world leader in the electoral
Brazil continues to shield the vote by extending the use of biometrics
On October 7th 2012, Brazil held elections across its 27 states to elect mayors, deputy mayors and city councilors for its 5,568 municipalities. Only the voters from the Federal District, the 21-island archipelago Fernando de Noronha, and those residing abroad