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Is it time to introduce electronic voting for UK elections?

    Is it time to introduce electronic voting for UK elections?

In our blog, we’ve asked ourselves this very same question in previous posts when addressing the UK and the many other nations in which Internet use is so pervasive that casting a ballot [...]

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10 essential facts about the runoff Uruguayan elections

    10 essential facts about the runoff Uruguayan elections

On November 30, Uruguayans will head back to the polls to elect a successor to Jose “Pepe” Mujica. During the first round, Tabare Vazquez, candidate for the Broad Front, received 1,134,187 [...]

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The 2014 elections in numbers

    The 2014 elections in numbers

This year, approximately 1.5 billion people have elected their representatives in 96 elections held in five continents. That’s the equivalent of 21% of the world population. Asia, a continent with 4.427 [...]

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Uruguay learns about electronic voting

    Uruguay learns about electronic voting

German Cardoso, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay and a representative of the city of Maldonado, recently visited the Spanish Congress to learn about electronic voting. It is important to point out that the Uruguayan parliament is [...]

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VI Ibero-American Conference of Electoral Justice: The role of justice as electoral endorsement

    VI Ibero-American Conference of Electoral Justice: The role of justice as electoral endorsement

The VI Ibero -American Conference for Electoral Justice entitled: "The role of Electoral Justice as a guarantee of democratic probity", was held this year in Cancun, Mexico on the 27th, [...]

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Advocacy group hopes i-Voting will improve turnout in UK

    Advocacy group hopes i-Voting will improve turnout in UK

In a trend that is being observed in most democracies around the world, the United Kingdom is also struggling with increasing voter apathy.  A study has found out that while [...]

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New Comoros president known November

    New Comoros president known November

The Union of Comoros will hold its presidential elections  on November 16.  Interestingly, not every registered voter in the country will have a say on who their next leader will [...]

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Internet voting = Postal voting 2.0

    Internet voting = Postal voting 2.0

As early as 1999, in the midst of the dot-com bubble, Bill Clinton sent a memorandum directing the National Science Foundation to study the potential of Internet voting: “The Director of [...]

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