On October 5th, South America's largest democracy will hold general elections. To expedite the voting experience of citizens, speed vote processing, and enhance the overall transparency and security of the election, the Tribunal Superior Eletoral (TSE) -Brazil’s electoral authority- will deploy the same electronic voting platform it has used in every election since 1996. In total, 530,000 electronic voting ...
Wikimedia Commons/OddurBen. Some rights reserved. Iceland’s next Parliamentary elections aren’t until 2017. But as soon as they’ve been held and a new government has been elected, a new constitution will be submitted to the new Parliament. And it won’t have been written by any political parties or politicians. It will have been written by regular citizens. You may ...
Vote buying and vote selling are some of the earliest known forms of electoral fraud. The reason why it’s been so pervasive througout time is simple, any time a voter can prove how he voted, the door for this kind of fraud opens. Although manual voting has seen its fair share of vote buying/selling throughout the ...
Image courtesy of  Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net According to an article in Australia’s Business Spectator, Australia’s Department of Communications has told a parliamentary group, The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, that ‘it was inevitable Australia would embrace online voting’ A spokesperson from the department told the committee how electors could one day vote on their own devices ...
Voters in the constituent country of Sint Maarten are set to elect fifteen members of the unicameral Parliament on August 29. The small territory on the Caribbean, which is a semi-autonomous entity in the Kingdom of Netherlands, has  13,708 registered voters out of the roughly 37,000 population. The Sint Maarten Parliament is primarily tasked with the function ...