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Title: GLOBAL PRACTICE MEETING ON ELECTORAL SYSTEMS


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GLOBAL PRACTICE MEETING ON ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
PROCESSES
ICT and Elections
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Benefits of Technology for Electoral
Administration
ICT and Elections
  • Voters trust
  • Accuracy
  • Efficiency
  • Decrease of overall costs
  • Administration improvements

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Issues to take in consideration
ICT and Elections
  • Legal implication
  • Voters perceptions
  • Benefits
  • Implementation time frame
  • Cost effectiveness
  • Sustainability

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Electoral Administration Stakeholders
Electoral Systems and ProcessesICT and Elections
  • Government
  • Political Parties
  • Civil Society Organizations
  • Professional Groups
  • EMB Staff
  • Suppliers????

Customers
  • Citizens / Voters
  • Society in general

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Technologies for Electoral Administration
Electoral Systems and ProcessesICT and Elections
  • Administrative Systems
  • Data Base Systems
  • Voting Operations Systems
  • Dissemination of Information

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Administrative systems
ICT and Elections
  • Accounting and budgeting
  • Personnel management
  • Procurement
  • Logistics
  • Auditing
  • Districting and re-districting

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Administrative systems
ICT and Elections
  • Few specific Legal Implications
  • Usually little impact on voters perceptions
  • Good efficiency gains
  • Implementation time frame has usually low impact
    on the electoral process
  • Costs can be significant but are recoupable
  • Easily sustainable

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Data Management Systems
ICT and Elections
  • Voter register
  • Parties and candidates data base
  • Geographic information
  • Voting stations data base
  • Polling officials data base

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Data Management Systems
ICT and Elections
  • Can have legal implications
  • Voter perceptions are important
  • Good efficiency gains
  • Implementation time frame can impact the
    electoral process
  • Costs can be significant but usually are
    justifiable

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Dissemination of Information
ICT and Elections
  • Training of electoral officers
  • Voter information
  • Dissemination of electoral results

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Voting Systems
ICT and Elections
  • Voters verification
  • Voters authentication
  • Vote recording
  • Vote counting
  • Vote tabulation and consolidation

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Voting Systems
ICT and Elections
  • Can have significant legal implications
  • Voter perceptions are very important
  • Efficiency gains depends on technology used
  • Implementation time frame can impact elections
  • Costs can be significant
  • Sustainability can be questionable

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EXAMPLES
ICT and Elections
  • Elections Brazil (Voting)
  • Elections Jamaica (Registration and
    authentication)
  • Elections Switzerland (Internet Voting)

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Strategies to use technologies without
jeopardizing the electoral process
ICT and Elections
  • Involve stakeholders
  • Survey political environment
  • Survey cultural issues
  • Present the benefits clearly
  • Be transparent about costs/other issues

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To insure success
ICT and Elections
  • Conduct feasibility studies
  • Prepare contingency plans
  • Have back up and recovery procedures
  • Have manual systems to back up computer systems

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Conclusion
ICT and Elections
  • The use of technologies are here to stay but
    their implementation could be problematic if not
    taken with sensitivity and care
  • and
  • Visit www.aceproject.org

Maria Helena Alves
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