E-voting experiments end in Norway amid security fears. Or at least, that’s how the BBC reported events last Friday (27 June, 2014). However Norway’s Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation was quick to counter the statements made by the news organization. The BBC said that the trials (during elections in 2011 and 2013) ended because of people’s fears ...
Namibian authorities are considering implementing electronic voting for the country's presidential and National Assembly elections to be held later this year. To contribute to a successful adoption process, researchers at Namibia's Biometric Research Laboratory (BRL) have published an article with the criteria they deem necessary to efficiently select the most appropriate electronic voting system. According to the ...
Photo: Reuters 1.5 million registered voters 10,087 overseas registered voters 1,734 candidates are vying for seats in the new parliament, the House of Representatives. It will replace the General National Congress, which has been plagued by problems since the election two years ago. 1,601 polling stations 200 parliamentary seats are up for grabs 32 seats reserved for women How does the electoral ...
Smartmatic, world leader in electronic voting, and Cybernetica, the Estonian R&D lab that built the original Internet voting system used in Estonia, recently announced the creation of a centre to further develop remote online voting. This multidisciplinary centre of research and development is focused on improving Internet voting by approaching it from a wide assortment of ...
While on a trip to Chicago, senator Juan Carlos Romero Hicks made some interesting declarations about the possibility of voting for Mexicans living abroad: "In 2018, Mexicans living abroad will be able to choose their president from a computer, a consulate or by mail." He also indicated that the electoral reform that was recently approved by ...
John Bercow, House of Commons Speaker, has said that e-voting in polling stations or at home would not be an earth-shattering innovation. Well, actually, it would if you look at it literally, considering the UK’s current voting system. But what John Bercow is actually trying to do is to facilitate a switch to electronic voting, rather ...
On June 5, the Election Commission of Pakistan (EPC) announced their intention to use adopt voting technology for the 2018 general elections. Although the Sindh government’s intention was to implement technology as early as November of this year, the obstacles to be sorted in order to make electronic voting a reality will make it impossible to ...
Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northwest part of Spain, has scheduled a non-binding referendum in November 2014. The exercise is meant to assess the pulse of Catalonians about the region’s bid for independence, a movement which has gathered steam in recent years and has caused considerable tension between Catalonia and the central Spanish government ...