The electoral commission of Peru, called the Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE), recently approved the legal framework necessary to begin implementing e-voting for binding national elections. In a document published in a national newspaper -El Peruano-, the ONPE established the criteria to regulate how the technology will be implemented. Having achieved such remarkable milestone, authorities will ...
Scotland has looked carefully at its electoral system to see how it could be improved. Its government published a consultation document in April. Called ‘Scotland’s Electoral Future – Delivering improvements in participation and administration’, it examines how the country can encourage wider participation in elections – and improve the quality of its democracy. The suggestions range from ...
In three weeks, Indonesians will be selecting a new leader to replace President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Around 71% of the close to 200 million registered voters are expected to troop to polling precincts to vote. Elected by an absolute majority vote, the President serves a 5-year term for a maximum of 2 terms. The July 9 ...
E-voting experiments end in Norway amid security fears. Or at least, that’s how the BBC reported events last Friday (27 June, 2014). However Norway’s Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation was quick to counter the statements made by the news organization. The BBC said that the trials (during elections in 2011 and 2013) ended because of people’s fears ...
Namibian authorities are considering implementing electronic voting for the country's presidential and National Assembly elections to be held later this year. To contribute to a successful adoption process, researchers at Namibia's Biometric Research Laboratory (BRL) have published an article with the criteria they deem necessary to efficiently select the most appropriate electronic voting system. According to the ...
Smartmatic, world leader in electronic voting, and Cybernetica, the Estonian R&D lab that built the original Internet voting system used in Estonia, recently announced the creation of a centre to further develop remote online voting. This multidisciplinary centre of research and development is focused on improving Internet voting by approaching it from a wide assortment of ...