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
The trouble with manual audits
Manual audits have become an integral part of every automated election worldwide. Voters and stakeholders demand them from election commissions as a safety measure against possible machine errors. To many, the presence of manual audits imbues elections with an extra