World leader in electoral solutions, Smartmatic, is now ready to assist the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, Brazil’s top election authority, to hold the second round of the Brazilian municipal elections on October 28, 2012. During the first round (10/07/2012), Smartmatic contributed
“Innovation is a core value at Smartmatic”
During a recent interview with findBIOMETRICS, Smartmatic’s CEO Antonio Mugica spoke about the upcoming electoral projects that the Company will be deploying during October. According to Mugica, Smartmatic is simultaneously participating with its advanced technology in projects in Belgium, Venezuela
Carter: “The electoral system in Venezuela is the best in the world”
Last week, during the Annual Conversations held at the Carter Center, former US President Jimmy Carter said that “the voting system in Venezuela is the best in the world”. Carter commended Smartmatic’s e-voting technology for allowing an easy verification of
Africa’s next big challenge
According to projections made by the International Monetary Fund, Africa, on average, will be the fastest growing economy of any continent for the next five years. Seven of the ten most prosperous economies are African. Besides the impulse given by
Legal barriers to voting technologies
Some of the most commonly found barriers to the implementation of technological solutions for election management are related to the legal framework of electoral processes. As a rule of thumb we could consider that the closer electoral technology is to
When to adopt voting technologies?
As more people realize the benefits that advanced voting technologies have brought to democracies around the world a very simple question comes to mind, when should a country go ahead and automate its elections? The answer to this question is