Israelis headed to the polls on March 17 to elect their 20th Knesset (Parliament). The event was widely seen as a referendum on the governance of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu; who –after a close-fought campaign- has claimed victory. His party Likud won 30 seats, six more than his closest follower the opposition Zionist Union (led by ...
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has called for requests for expressions of interest (REI) for companies to provide advice on paper ballot scanning and counting technology. The AEC intends to initiate a multi-stage procurement process for the required services. Electronic vote scanning and counting would be implemented at the next general election to be held in ...
Here are the 5 W's of the latest Estonian i-voting experience What happened? The Estonian online voting platform was used for the eighth straight national election. This time, Estonians were electing their Rigiikogu (Parliament). 176,328 people i-voted. This represents an increase of 71% since last elections - May 2014-  and 25% as compared to the previous Rigiikogy elections ...
Campaigners for online voting are optimistic about the possibility of i-voting making its much awaited grand debut in the UK very soon. The Digital Democracy Commission has recommended that the government should run online voting pilots in the next parliament with a view to all electors having the choice of voting online at the 2020 general ...
In response to an invitation by the Nigerian government, the European Union (EU) has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to the Presidential, Parliamentary, Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections to be held on 14 and 28 February respectively. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the ...
An outstanding study carried out by Kristjan Vassil and Mihkel Solvak, political researchers at the University of Tartu in Estonia, confirmed that electronic voting has proven its worth over the past ten years. Research results showed that different population groups embrace the internet voting solution in equal measure. Internet voting was first enabled in 2005. The ...