Should Scotland be an independent country? Voters are set to tick off either a YES or NO on their ballots for the Scottish independence referendum on September 18. This could mean that the centuries-old call for a separate and sovereign State of Scotland, which had at several instances been fought on bloody battlefields, may finally be ...
Minority shareholders could take part in making important company decisions soon, according to market experts. The recent defeat of Tata Motors' resolution to approve a salary increase for its senior executive and the convenience of electronic voting could lead to greater investor participation in the future. Electronic voting means that shareholders do not need to be present ...
 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 ...
With the help of the Office of National Electoral Processes (ONPE), around a thousand workers in Peru's congress used a method of electronic voting where physical presence was not required to choose their representatives for the Parliamentary Management Committee of Assistance and Stimulus (CAFAEÂ ). This innovative form of voting enables workers in the legislative precincts to ...
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 ...
On October 5th, South America's largest democracy will hold general elections. To expedite the voting experience of citizens, speed vote processing, and enhance the overall transparency and security of the election, the Tribunal Superior Eletoral (TSE) -Brazil’s electoral authority- will deploy the same electronic voting platform it has used in every election since 1996. In total, 530,000 electronic voting ...
Wikimedia Commons/OddurBen. Some rights reserved. Iceland’s next Parliamentary elections aren’t until 2017. But as soon as they’ve been held and a new government has been elected, a new constitution will be submitted to the new Parliament. And it won’t have been written by any political parties or politicians. It will have been written by regular citizens. You may ...
Vote buying and vote selling are some of the earliest known forms of electoral fraud. The reason why it’s been so pervasive througout time is simple, any time a voter can prove how he voted, the door for this kind of fraud opens. Although manual voting has seen its fair share of vote buying/selling throughout the ...