Australia: More electronic voting to ensure smooth election

More electronic voting to ensure smooth election

The ACT Electoral Commission is expanding its computer-based systems for October's Legislative Assembly election. --->>>

Electoral commission registers e-voting uptick in NSW by-election

Electoral commission registers e-voting uptick in NSW by-election
Users of the NSWEC’s iVote system doubled in the Clarence electorate

Record numbers of NSW voters used the state electoral commission’s e-voting system, iVote, to cast their ballot in the recent by-election for the seat of Clarence. The number of voters who employed iVote in the electorate more than doubled compared to the March state election.

The iVote system was established by the NSW Electoral Commission’s (NSWEC) for blind, vision-impaired and disabled voters, as well as those living in remote areas and out of state on the day. It was first slated in June 2010 and used in the state election earlier, with more than triple the number of expected voters casting an e-ballot with the system. --->>>

NZ: Online voting to boost turnout: Greens

Online voting to boost turnout: Greens

The Green Party wants parliament to consider online enrolment and voting for future elections, after a record low turnout for last month's election.

The final election results, released on Saturday, show only 74 per cent of enrolled voters cast a vote in last month's general election, down from 79 per cent in 2008.

Following the election, the Green Party called for parliament's justice and electoral select committee to look at why voter turnout was so low as part of its regular post-election inquiry.

The Greens have since undertaken an informal online survey, asking people what would make them more inclined to enrol or vote. --->>>

Philippines - Comelec execs to campaign abroad for absentee voting

Comelec execs to campaign abroad for absentee voting

MANILA, Philippines—Members of the Commission on Elections will embark on a “tour” of countries with many Filipinos to convince them to register as overseas absentee voters for the 2013 mid-term polls. --->>>

Google to cooperate with Egyptian government in upcoming elections

Google to cooperate with Egyptian government in upcoming elections

Government may use Google technology for the upcoming elections' logistics. e-voting is not however foreseen.

'Election API' service will allow voters to access voting and candidate information from their PCs and mobile phones. --->>>

Internet voting for overseas Filipinos?

Internet voting for overseas Filipinos?

Filipino expatriates from the United States, Australia and Jordan have apparently scored a key point in removing a legal impediment blamed for the low turnout in overseas absentee voting.

The Joint Congressional Committees on Foreign Affairs and Suffrage are now considering a substitute bill amending the Overseas Absentee Voting law, in order to do away with the requirement for Filipinos to submit an affidavit to return to the country 3 years after registration. --->>>

Voter fraud: 65% of votes in Balochistan were bogus

Voter fraud: 65% of votes in Balochistan were bogus

Balochistan had the highest rate of fake voters during the 2008 general election, according to findings from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). --->>>

Press Release - Canadian company, CODE Incorporated, completes second successful electronic/ bio-metric voter registration in Africa

The Canadian firm, CODE Incorporated, based in Ottawa, Ontario has recently accomplished their 2nd successful African Electronic Voter Registration (EVR) project. --->>>

Engineers Australia internet voting ballot could be declared invalid after a revolt by members.

Engineers Australia internet voting ballot could be declared invalid after a revolt by members.

More than 300 members, the number required to force a new vote, have supported calls for a new ballot requisition nine months after the online poll took place. The requisition is expected to be delivered to Engineers Australia within days.

The association, which has 90,000 members, will then have to inform the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, which will then advise the Office of the Governor-General, who is the Engineers Australia patron.

On November 16, Engineers Australia conducted a ballot seeking changes to its royal charter and bylaws. It used electronic voting for the first time as well as traditional paper-based postal votes. But scrutineers said they had been unable to verify the e-voting results. --->>>

Electoral transparency: Biometrics could eliminate bogus votes if approved

Electoral transparency: Biometrics could eliminate bogus votes if approved

Technological innovations will make bogus voting difficult if not impossible in Pakistan, where the number of bogus votes has called into question the legitimacy of the present government, if the introduction of biometrics is mandated for the next elections. --->>>

Online voting not feasible in India: CEC

Online voting not feasible in India: CEC

BANGALORE: Making voting hi-tech will make the entire democratic process of voting an unsafe venture, feels S Y Quraishi, Chief Election Commissioner of India. He said on Tuesday that India was not yet ready for bringing in technology into the voting system. The CEC spoke to TOI on the utility of the voter ID cards and put the onus on the citizen to step out and vote. --->>>

Karnataka - E-voting planned for municipal elections

Karnataka - E-voting planned for municipal elections

BANGALORE: State Election Commissioner C R Chickmath on Monday said that e-voting would be held in a few areas in the state during the municipal elections to be held in 2013.  --->>>

See also:  State EC to introduce more options to encourage voting
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New Zealand - Online tool to simplify referendum

Online tool to simplify referendum

The Electoral Commission has launched an interactive website to simplify the electoral system referendum that will take place in conjunction with the national election on November 26. --->>>

Maharashtra governor calls for online voting

Maharashtra governor calls for online voting

The state governor, K Sankaranarayanan, has advocated major electoral reforms in the form of introduction of online voting system in elections.

He was speaking at the launch of the official website of the state election commission at Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (Yashada), in Pune on
Tuesday.

“If we can have online banking, why can’t we have online voting?’’ he asked, making a strong plea for the educated to be involved in the process of elections and the political system at large. --->>>

Gujarat panchayat poll: Ballot boxes back in fashion

Gujarat panchayat poll: Ballot boxes back in fashion

The State Election Commission (SEC) may have encouraged online voting during the municipal elections but it is going back to ballots and boxes for the polls to be held in more than 11,000 gram panchayats later this year. --->>>

Australia, NSW: Electronic voting hailed as success

Electronic voting hailed as success

A NEW electronic voting system at the NSW state election has been declared highly successful, with four times as many people using the technology than the NSW Electoral Commission hoped.

The iVote system was introduced to help people with a disability or who found it difficult to get to a ballot box, by enabling them to vote via the internet or over the phone. --->>>

Diebold Named Best Information Technology Company in Brazil in Its Industry Segment by Exame Magazine

Diebold Named Best Information Technology Company in Brazil in Its Industry Segment by Exame Magazine

Diebold, Incorporated's (NYSE: DBD) Brazilian operation has recently been named the best information technology (IT) company in the "digital industry" segment by Brazil's Exame Magazine in its 38th edition of "The Biggest and the Best." Other companies considered for this recognition included: IBM, HP, Totvs, Itautec, Scopus, Positivo and CPM. --->>>

Maharashtra - Citizens to decide fate of e-voting before civic polls

Citizens to decide fate of e-voting before civic polls

Even as tenders have been invited for creating the online portal and supporting data systems to enable e-voting in the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections in February next year, the process will be finalised only after citizens give their go-ahead. --->>>

Russians abroad to vote via electronic devices

Russians abroad to vote via electronic devices

December 4 will see parliamentary elections in Russia. However, Russian citizens who are now living and working abroad will also have a possibility to vote.

On December 4, polling stations will open in all countries with which Russia has diplomatic relations. For the first time, they will be equipped with a technical novelty - electronic devices which will ease the procedure of voting and calculating the votes. --->>>

India: Maha EC to use hologram in EVMs to ensure safety

Maha EC to use hologram in EVMs to ensure safety

Maharashtra State Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan today said holograms will be pasted on the electronic voting machines (EVMs) to ensure their safety and prevent them from any kind of tampering. The state election commission has received complaints from various political parties about the vulnerability of the EVMs, she said. "As a security measure, holograms will be pasted on EVMs which will have a unique code. And it cannot be duplicated, is non-cloneable nor can it be tampered," Satyanarayan told reporters here. --->>>