Not long ago, Ireland dumped its 7,500 voting machines in one of the most notorious scandals in the election automation industry. The technology, introduced in 2002 on a trial basis, had only been used in three occasions when news stating that the equipment was faulty emerged. The Irish voting system, developed by Nedap, could not guarantee ...
"Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union." These were the words of Jean Monnet, a French political economist and diplomat, considered by many as chief architect of European unity. And on 22 May, around 400 million people from 28 EU member states will continue to choose who’s in charge, ...
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, the country’s current President, as the favourite. She was elected in Lithuania’s last Presidential[H1] elections, in 2009, where 1,393,278 people voted, a turnout of 51%, slightly ...
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 be facing challenger Andrej Kiska on March 29, only two weeks after both politicians obtained the most votes out of the 15 contending candidates (28% ...
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, routing them to their local authority, who will put them on the electoral roll. The system will migrate 46 million people from the old electoral roll ...
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 decree on the financing and expansion of the rail network and An initiative on abortion The latter proposes that abortions are paid for by the mother, rather ...