Smartmatic, a world leader in election technology, recently conducted a market research study to explore the relationship between voter turnouts and the voter experience and the voting technology in the U. S. Here are some of the key findings of the research: 33% of US registered voters stated that there had been at least one previous election ...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is going to great lengths to ensure that all registered voters in the Philippines are equipped with knowledge on how to properly cast their votes in the May 9 national and local elections. As part of its voter education efforts, the Comelec recently launched www.Pili-Pinas2016.com. The site, which is envisioned to ...
For the first time since 2005 when municipal council elections were carried out in Saudi Arabia, women were able to participate as both voters and candidates. In this election there were 5,938 male candidates and 978 women running for half of the seats in a municipal council of 2,100 posts. Although only 20 women won seats (1% ...
On October 25th a general election was held in Argentina. Voters went to the polls in order to choose both the President and the Congress, while some provinces also elected governors. For the presidential race a second round was needed according to the electoral laws in Argentina after the surprisingly close results of the first ...
On December 6, Venezuelans headed to the polls to elect 167 representatives to the National Assembly. Electronic voting played a key role in helping authorities run the election. Only a few hours after polls closed, a first election results bulletin was published by Venezuela’s National Election Council. With 96% of the data transmitted, the opposition coalition was ...
On October 25th, elections to both the lower chamber of the Polish parliament (Sejm) and the upper chamber (Senate) were held for the 2015-2019 period. 460 seats were contested for the Sejm and 100 for the Senate. Over 30 million people were registered to vote, with a turnout of more than 15 million voters for a ...
On November 8th the citizens of Burma headed to the polls in order to cast their votes in the first elections since 1990 when the military government recognise the victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy. Now, 25 years later, voters have participated en masse with an estimated turnout of 80% of ...
A total of 167 deputies will be elected on December 6, 2015. 164 deputies will be chosen at the state level while 3 additional deputies will be elected to represent Venezuela’s indigenous population. 1,799 candidates are competing in these elections. 19,504,106 voters are registered to participate. 40,528 electronic voting machines will be deployed across 14,566 polling stations. This same automated election ...