This year, approximately 1.5 billion people have elected their representatives in 96 elections held in five continents. That’s the equivalent of 21% of the world population. Asia, a continent with 4.427 billion people, saw some 800 million people casting a ballot. India (553 million voters) and Indonesia (134 million voters) accounted for almost half of the ...
The results of the most recent Bolivian national elections, held on October 12, undoubtedly represent a milestone in the long-standing worldwide struggle for gender equality. As a result of the election, 48% of the representatives to Bolivia’s National Assembly, officially named Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional de Bolivia, will be women -16 in the 36 member Senate and ...
As early as 1999, in the midst of the dot-com bubble, Bill Clinton sent a memorandum directing the National Science Foundation to study the potential of Internet voting: “The Director of the National Science Foundation, working with appropriate Federal agencies, shall conduct a 1-year study examining the feasibility of online voting.†It was a promising future ...
 The Republic of Romania is scheduled to hold the first round of its presidential elections this November. The country uses a two-round presidential elections model, the first of such round is slated to be held on November 2. In case a candidate obtains more than 50% of the votes in this first round of voting, he ...
Voters in the Republic of Fiji, a Melanesian island country in the South Pacific Ocean, are set to fill all fifty (50) seats in its Parliament in the upcoming September General Elections. Yet, ahead of Election Day, a number of people are raising concern over changes in the ballot. In compliance with a recently promulgated electoral ...
Image courtesy of  Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net According to an article in Australia’s Business Spectator, Australia’s Department of Communications has told a parliamentary group, The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, that ‘it was inevitable Australia would embrace online voting’ A spokesperson from the department told the committee how electors could one day vote on their own devices ...