According to Ecuador’s National Electoral Council, Manabí will be one of the provinces that introduce electronic voting as a pilot project in the elections scheduled for February 2017. The pilot will also include Guayas, Pichincha, Azuay and Santo Domingo de
Australia could use government portal to verify voter identity
Voter authentication, that is, the process by which authorities validate the voters’ claimed identity is a major challenge voting system. But when the voting occurs remotely (by mail or online) things get even trickier. To circumvent this challenge, Australia is
Electronic voting comes to Namibia
Namibia will make history at the end of 2014 when it becomes the first African country to hold presidential and general elections using electronic voting machines. Namibia is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the African Union, and the
Costa Rica holds its first electronic elections for children
This past April 6, young people throughout the country participated in the first electronic elections for Costa Rican youth. Children aged six and above had the opportunity to “choose” the nation’s next president. Local retailer -Gollo Shops- served as polling
Paraguay analyzes using the Brazilian electronic voting system
After using Brazilian voting technology in the 2013 elections, Paraguay is looking into permanently adopting Brazil’s electronic voting system in the future. Brazil, a frontrunner in the adoption of voting technology, has been using Direct Recording Electronic voting machines (DRE)
Puerto Rico to implement electronic tallying by the 2016 elections
Puerto Rico has set 2016 as the date to implement e-tallying. To achieve such goal, the State Election Commission has begun by outlining the road map that will guide the adoption of this new voting system. The idea is to