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Electronic voting and Lithuania’s Presidential elections

    Electronic voting and Lithuania’s Presidential elections

  Lithuania's Presidential elections will take place on 11 May 2014. There were initially 12 candidates but only seven received the required 20,000 supporting signatures. According to Wikipedia opinion polls show Dalia Grybauskaitė, [...]

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Slovakia prepares for a second round

    Slovakia prepares for a second round

Slovakia is gearing up for a presidential run-off election to elect a successor to President Ivan Gasparovic who is currently concluding his second term in office. Prime Minister Robert Fico will [...]

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Online voter registration on its way in the UK

    Online voter registration on its way in the UK

  Question: How do you move 46 million people to individual electoral registration from a household-based system? Answer: With a new government website that will enable people to manage their own applications, [...]

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Swiss to vote on three issues in the 9 February 2014 referendum

    Swiss to vote on three issues in the 9 February 2014 referendum

  Voters in Switzerland will say whether they approve of three proposals in the referendum that takes place on 9 February, 2014: A quote to limit immigration from the European Union A federal [...]

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UK electoral commission calls for voter ID

    UK electoral commission calls for voter ID

We seem to trust our electoral system in the UK. So much so that we let people vote simply by giving their name and address at polling centres – as [...]

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Has Estonia beaten an e-voting record?

    Has Estonia beaten an e-voting record?

  It has according to an article on the website belonging to ERR, Estonia’s public broadcasting organisation, called Record broken in final hours of E-voting By 2:30pm on 16 October, 121,104 people [...]

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