On 8 November Myanmar will hold its first open general election in 25 years to elect a second government under the 2008 constitution. The president in Myanmar is not directly elected by the people, but chosen by MPs following the vote. For these upcoming autumn historic polls, the president Thein Sein has reaffirmed his vow to ...
The digital space has all but overrun every aspect of life in the United Kingdom. The rapid growth of digital business in the country strengthens Britain position as one of the global hub of technology excellence. Despite all these technological leapfrogging however, the UK’s electoral system is a curious anachronism with its reluctance to do away ...
Burundi’s presidential election will be held July 21, after been postponed by nearly a week. The postponement comes as a response to a request by leaders from the East African Community plus South Africa, to try to stop worsening violence in the central African state. The Government agreed with a delay in the vote, but said ...
Last Sunday, July 5th, two cities from the province of Cordoba used a fully-verifiable electronic voting system to capture and process votes, marking the debut of verifiable electronic voting in Argentina. Thanks to the advanced technology deployed, authorities were able to release results only 45 minutes after voting ended. La Falda and Marcos Juarez used 104 ...
With a little over ten months to go before the Philippines goes to the polls to select the next president, the country’s poll body is itself deep in the process to select a technology provider to automate the electoral process. The  Commission on Elections (Comelec), which is riding on an all-time approval rating high  after the ...
An interesting and somehow groundbreaking paper about disputed elections in presidential democracies has won this year’s IDEA/EIP award for the best graduate student paper on electoral integrity. The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) together with the Electoral Integrity Project (EIP; Harvard University & University of Sydney) announced the results of the 2015 ...
Nearly 90% of the world’s countries has set the minimum voting age at 18. However, according to some analysts “momentum is building around the world to lower the voting age to 16 years. Some nations have already made the shift, with voting in national or local elections occurring at age 16 in Austria, Germany, Norway, ...
Mexican voters headed to the polls on Sunday June 7th to vote for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress (Chamber of Deputies), nine of 31 governorships, 641 federal deputies in 17 federal entities, 993 mayor offices in 16 states, and 16 borough heads for the Federal District. Here we present some interesting facts about ...