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Elections 2015 in Haiti: Top 3 challenges

    Elections 2015 in Haiti: Top 3 challenges

1. Scope of the elections. One of the major challenges Haiti will be facing this year is having to put nearly all of its elected officials to the test. To schedule [...]

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Great expectations for Myanmar’s first open general election?

    Great expectations for Myanmar’s first open general election?

On 8 November Myanmar will hold its first open general election in 25 years to elect a second government under the 2008 constitution. The president in Myanmar is not directly [...]

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Top 10 facts about Burundi’s presidential election

    Top 10 facts about Burundi’s presidential election

Burundi’s presidential election will be held July 21, after been postponed by nearly a week. The postponement comes as a response to a request by leaders from the East African [...]

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Verifiable electronic voting makes grand debut in Argentina

    Verifiable electronic voting makes grand debut in Argentina

Last Sunday, July 5th, two cities from the province of Cordoba used a fully-verifiable electronic voting system to capture and process votes, marking the debut of verifiable electronic voting in [...]

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The Philippines: gearing up for the 2016 general elections

    The Philippines: gearing up for the 2016 general elections

With a little over ten months to go before the Philippines goes to the polls to select the next president, the country’s poll body is itself deep in the process [...]

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Challenging presidential election results: a common political strategy?

    Challenging presidential election results: a common political strategy?

An interesting and somehow groundbreaking paper about disputed elections in presidential democracies has won this year’s IDEA/EIP award for the best graduate student paper on electoral integrity. The International Institute for [...]

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Lowering the voting age: a global trending topic?

    Lowering the voting age: a global trending topic?

Nearly 90% of the world’s countries has set the minimum voting age at 18. However, according to some analysts “momentum is building around the world to lower the voting age [...]

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The 2015 Mexican midterm elections – a snapshot

    The 2015 Mexican midterm elections – a snapshot

Mexican voters headed to the polls on Sunday June 7th to vote for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress (Chamber of Deputies), nine of 31 governorships, 641 federal [...]

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