Illiteracy has always been a major exclusionary factor in elections. Voters who lack the ability to read and write often find themselves unable to exercise their right to choose their leaders, given most elections system’s dependence on these critical skills. Yet a new paper by a leading provider of electronic voting offers the encouraging insight that ...
The year 2018 will be an important one for the Americas as roughly 82% of the approximately 580 million eligible voters in the region are expected to cast a ballot in presidential, legislative or local elections. The unusually high number of expected voters is due to the fact that the four most populated countries in the ...
Around the world, key democratic institutions are taking a bad hit on their trust index. This “implosion of confidence†was revealed in the 2017 Trust Barometer conducted by Edelman Intelligence, which determined that three fourths of the general population’s trust in all four key institutions — government, media, business, and NGOs has been eroding significantly. Of ...
Following recent elections in Algeria, Gabon, Republic of Congo and Senegal, the African continent is preparing to observe several more elections- including the first local elections in Tunisia, legislative elections in Angola, general elections in Somaliland, and presidential elections in Rwanda. This dynamic region has historically drawn much attention to their electoral processes, and as a ...
With the month of July soon ending, the international community still waits to see a number of critical elections be held in Europe- including presidential elections in Slovenia, parliamentary elections in Norway, municipal elections in Denmark, and an independence referendums in Catalunya, Lombardy, and Veneto. As anticipated, these upcoming elections pose potential changes to the framework ...
Eighty six per cent of the 58 million registered Turkish voters turned up in polling precincts to decide whether or not to adopt 18 proposed amendments in the Constitution. While Turkish elections regularly draw good turnout, the 2017 polls elicited one of the biggest voter participation in recent history. Early count has “Yes†winning with 51.36% of ...