In 2015, United Arab Emirates (UAB) will conduct its third Federal National Council (FNC) election since this legislative body was formed in 1971. Previous elections –held in 2006 and 2011- represented an important first step towards Emirati democracy. The FNC is the federal authority of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) formed to represent the general Emirati people. ...
As the world continues to gravitate towards greater technology adoption in all realms of daily life, the kind of question posed in this article by Edie Lush is becoming more frequent and more relevant. What is keeping some European nations from adopting voting technology? By comparing the positive impact that technology has had on Philippine elections ...
In our blog, we’ve asked ourselves this very same question in previous posts when addressing the UK and the many other nations in which Internet use is so pervasive that casting a ballot online could soon be a reality. But this time around, the question is being asked by former UK Government Minister and SGO Chairman Lord Mark Malloch-Brown in ...
On November 30, Uruguayans will head back to the polls to elect a successor to Jose “Pepe†Mujica. During the first round, Tabare Vazquez, candidate for the Broad Front, received 1,134,187 votes (47,8%) while Luis A. Lacalle, representing the National Party, received 732,601. A total of 2,620,791 registered voters are expected at the precincts. In the first round, ...
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 ...
German Cardoso, President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay and a representative of the city of Maldonado, recently visited the Spanish Congress to learn about electronic voting. It is important to point out that the Uruguayan parliament is the only one in South America that has not yet implemented this voting system. Parliamentary elections are still carried out using the “freehand†mechanism. It ...
The VI Ibero -American Conference for Electoral Justice entitled: "The role of Electoral Justice as a guarantee of democratic probity", was held this year in Cancun, Mexico on the 27th, 28th and 29th of August. The conference was organized by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), The Electoral Court of the Ministry ...