On October 25th a general election was held in Argentina. Voters went to the polls in order to choose both the President and the Congress, while some provinces also elected governors. For the presidential race a second round was needed according to the electoral laws in Argentina after the surprisingly close results of the first ...
On October 25th, elections to both the lower chamber of the Polish parliament (Sejm) and the upper chamber (Senate) were held for the 2015-2019 period. 460 seats were contested for the Sejm and 100 for the Senate. Over 30 million people were registered to vote, with a turnout of more than 15 million voters for a ...
On November 8th the citizens of Burma headed to the polls in order to cast their votes in the first elections since 1990 when the military government recognise the victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy. Now, 25 years later, voters have participated en masse with an estimated turnout of 80% of ...
Amit Singhal, senior vice president and software engineer at Google, responded Robert Epstein’s article which suggested that Google had the power to shift the voting preferences of undecided voters. Given the importance of this topic, we had written a post about Epstein’s piece last month. In this new article, published in Politico on August 26, Singhal ...
September 22 was National Voter Registration Day in the United States, and what a better day to discuss the current registration system. One point of view adding value to the debate was the release of The Brennan Center for Justice new paper: Case for Voter Registration Modernization in 2015. This Voter Registration Modernisation project is a comprehensive ...
“How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election†is the title of an article written by Robert Epstein and published by Politico in August. According to Epstein, Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, “Google has amassed far more power to control elections than any company in history has ever had.†Epstein’s assertion ...