by Ernesto Parisca | Jun 30, 2014 | Africa, E-voting, Elections

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 ...
by Ernesto Parisca | Jun 25, 2014 | E-voting, Elections

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 ...
by Ernesto Parisca | Jun 19, 2014 | E-voting, Elections, In the news, The Americas
While on a trip to Chicago, senator Juan Carlos Romero Hicks made some interesting declarations about the possibility of voting for Mexicans living abroad: "In 2018, Mexicans living abroad will be able to choose their president from a computer, a consulate or by mail."
He also indicated that the electoral reform that was recently approved by ...
by Ernesto Parisca | Jun 16, 2014 | Elections

John Bercow, House of Commons Speaker, has said that e-voting in polling stations or at home would not be an earth-shattering innovation.
Well, actually, it would if you look at it literally, considering the UK’s current voting system. But what John Bercow is actually trying to do is to facilitate a switch to electronic voting, rather ...
by Ernesto Parisca | Jun 13, 2014 | E-voting, Elections, In the news
On June 5, the Election Commission of Pakistan (EPC) announced their intention to use adopt voting technology for the 2018 general elections.
Although the Sindh government’s intention was to implement technology as early as November of this year, the obstacles to be sorted in order to make electronic voting a reality will make it impossible to ...
by Ernesto Parisca | Jun 10, 2014 | Elections, Europe

Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northwest part of Spain, has scheduled a non-binding referendum in November 2014. The exercise is meant to assess the pulse of Catalonians about the region’s bid for independence, a movement which has gathered steam in recent years and has caused considerable tension between Catalonia and the central Spanish government ...