Voters in Switzerland will say whether they approve of three proposals in the referendum that takes place on 9 February, 2014: A quote to limit immigration from the European Union A federal decree on the financing and expansion of the rail network and An initiative on abortion The latter proposes that abortions are paid for by the mother, rather ...
We seem to trust our electoral system in the UK. So much so that we let people vote simply by giving their name and address at polling centres – as long as it matches the local electoral register. Hardly foolproof, is it? And postal voting is even less secure. Good news, then, that the electoral commission is ...
Egypt will hold a referendum on its amended 2012 constitution over two days on 14 and 15 January, 2014. Voters will be asked if they approve of the draft constitution – complete with all the changes that have been made in the last year. A committee of ten legal experts began to amend the constitution in 2013. ...
It has according to an article on the website belonging to ERR, Estonia’s public broadcasting organisation, called Record broken in final hours of E-voting By 2:30pm on 16 October, 121,104 people had voted online in the country’s municipal elections. That’s 16% of the electorate, surpassing 2011’s figure of 15.4%, and not all the results were in at ...
 The evolution of information technology in recent decades has brought the adoption of electronic voting to the agendas of electoral commissions and governments around the world. South America is no exception. To begin any discussion on voting technology, the first references are Brazil and Venezuela , two countries leading automation in a global scale. Since the ...