Last April, more than four million Paraguayans were registered to hit the polls for a general election. Voters went to choose both national and local authorities. The event is the seventh election since 1992 when democracy was established as the country's form of government. More than 700 posts were up for election. The most noteworthy being ...
The controversy around the upcoming DRC elections has only increased after the South Korean Government distanced itself from Miru Systems, the Korean company that will be providing voting equipment to the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI in French). The decision of the Korean government to cut ties with Miru for this project comes as a surprise ...
The three national elections scheduled in Colombia for 2018 are keeping election authorities quite busy. The first round of elections were held on March 11, when citizens elected members of Senate and House Representatives. Later this month -on May 27- Colombia will hold the most awaited presidential race in years, with a runoff on June 17 ...
Although Turkmenistan is recognized internationally as a repressive and authoritarian regime, citizens are scheduled to head to the polls on March 25 to elect 125 five seats in the Turkmenistan Parliament Meljis. According to the 2017 World Report published by Human Rights Watch, “Turkmenistan is among the world’s most repressive and closed countries, where the president ...
Illiteracy has always been a major exclusionary factor in elections. Voters who lack the ability to read and write often find themselves unable to exercise their right to choose their leaders, given most elections system’s dependence on these critical skills. Yet a new paper by a leading provider of electronic voting offers the encouraging insight that ...