According to a recent survey carried out by Mancunian marketing agency, Tecmark and polling company YouGov, 63% of adults in the UK think that online voting would boost turnout in elections. The strongest support was found amongst women, people living in London, and young people aged 25 to 39. Â I-voting is most popular amongst Northerners and ...
Bulgarian President, Rosen Plevneliev, has resubmitted to the Parliament his request for a national referendum on electoral rights. The activation of a plebiscite on election rules aims to inquire Bulgarians on three key issues: whether they want to elect lawmakers directly trough a majority system (rather than from party lists), to make voting compulsory and ...
Israelis headed to the polls on March 17 to elect their 20th Knesset (Parliament). The event was widely seen as a referendum on the governance of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu; who –after a close-fought campaign- has claimed victory. His party Likud won 30 seats, six more than his closest follower the opposition Zionist Union (led by ...
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has called for requests for expressions of interest (REI) for companies to provide advice on paper ballot scanning and counting technology. The AEC intends to initiate a multi-stage procurement process for the required services. Electronic vote scanning and counting would be implemented at the next general election to be held in ...
Here are the 5 W's of the latest Estonian i-voting experience What happened? The Estonian online voting platform was used for the eighth straight national election. This time, Estonians were electing their Rigiikogu (Parliament). 176,328 people i-voted. This represents an increase of 71% since last elections - May 2014-  and 25% as compared to the previous Rigiikogy elections ...
Edmonton's executive committee voted to request the province to allow online voting. A report was brought to the committee at the petition of council Andrew Knack, highlighting what it would take for the city to include internet voting for future elections. Knack expects the cost of i-voting to be minimal. Also i-voting would increase voter turnout ...
Campaigners for online voting are optimistic about the possibility of i-voting making its much awaited grand debut in the UK very soon. The Digital Democracy Commission has recommended that the government should run online voting pilots in the next parliament with a view to all electors having the choice of voting online at the 2020 general ...
In response to an invitation by the Nigerian government, the European Union (EU) has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to the Presidential, Parliamentary, Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections to be held on 14 and 28 February respectively. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the ...