Electronic voting in Venezuela, another successful election

Electronic voting in Venezuela, another successful election

On December 6, Venezuelans headed to the polls to elect 167 representatives to the National Assembly. Electronic voting played a key role in helping authorities run the election. Only a few hours after polls closed, a first election results bulletin was published by Venezuela’s National Election Council. With 96% of the data transmitted, the opposition coalition was ...

Historic vote in Burma

Historic vote in Burma

On November 8th the citizens of Burma headed to the polls in order to cast their votes in the first elections since 1990 when the military government recognise the victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy. Now, 25 years later, voters have participated en masse with an estimated turnout of 80% of ...

9 facts about the upcoming Venezuelan Parliamentary elections

9 facts about the upcoming Venezuelan Parliamentary elections

A total of 167 deputies will be elected on December 6, 2015. 164 deputies will be chosen at the state level while 3 additional deputies will be elected to represent Venezuela’s indigenous population. 1,799 candidates are competing in these elections. 19,504,106 voters are registered to participate. 40,528 electronic voting machines will be deployed across 14,566 polling stations. This same automated election ...

Can Google rig elections? – the rebuttal

Can Google rig elections? – the rebuttal

Amit Singhal, senior vice president and software engineer at Google, responded Robert Epstein’s article which suggested that Google had the power to shift the voting preferences of undecided voters. Given the importance of this topic, we had written a post about Epstein’s piece last month. In this new article, published in Politico on August 26, Singhal ...