“The 21st Century is truly the golden age of technology. Humanity depends on technology for everything with one notable exception, voting. For more than two centuries democracies have relied on hand counted paper ballots and ballot boxes to conduct elections. Reluctance to invest in election technology often comes from unfounded misgivings about the reliability, accuracy ...
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) have always been consigned to the fringes of society and generally do not enjoy the same access to services as more able-bodied citizens. Even in the exercise of the right to suffrage, PWDs are fighting an uphill battle for inclusion. On such PWD in the United States, Katy Hoel, has decided she’s ...
Automated elections in the Philippines got a boost when an election watchdog announced that its random manual (RMA) showed a 99.8% match between the electronic count and the manual count. "It is already high," said Tammy Lipana of the National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel), adding that "there is no perfect system, but as we can ...
On May 9 the Philippines automated its third national election with great result. Leveraging technology, basically all candidates vying for local offices were proclaimed between Election Night and the next day. The staggering speed of past three automated elections stands in stark contrast against the slowness of the process under the manual system where it it ...
Smartmatic, a world leader in election technology, recently conducted a market research study to explore the relationship between voter turnouts and the voter experience and the voting technology in the U. S. Here are some of the key findings of the research: 33% of US registered voters stated that there had been at least one previous election ...
For the first time since 2005 when municipal council elections were carried out in Saudi Arabia, women were able to participate as both voters and candidates. In this election there were 5,938 male candidates and 978 women running for half of the seats in a municipal council of 2,100 posts. Although only 20 women won seats (1% ...