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, 28th and 29th of August. The conference was organized by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), The Electoral Court of the Ministry ...
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 voter turnout peaked in 1950 when 82% of the electorate voted, it has since been in steep decline. By 1983, participation had dived to 72%, and ...
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 be. The reason is that the elections laws of this small archipelago of only 773,000 people state that the presidency should rotate every four years among ...
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 the National Science Foundation, working with appropriate Federal agencies, shall conduct a 1-year study examining the feasibility of online voting.†It was a promising future ...
14 years ago, in the wake of the 2000 general elections, Americans had to wait 37 days to learn who their leader was. The closest presidential election in US history was the fourth time that a president declared winner by the Electoral College system (G. W. Bush 271, A. Gore 266) had not won the ...
Should Scotland be an independent country? Voters are set to tick off either a YES or NO on their ballots for the Scottish independence referendum on September 18. This could mean that the centuries-old call for a separate and sovereign State of Scotland, which had at several instances been fought on bloody battlefields, may finally be ...