Voting, selfies and secrecy of the ballot

By Jeff Fischer

October 11, 2016   |   0 comments

The recent decision by a U.S. Appeals Court to strike down New Hampshire’s ban on taking selfies of voted ballots could have harmful repercussions at home and abroad. Electoral integrity expert Jeff Fischer explains how....
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Remedying the underrepresentation of women in Burmese elections

By Tihana Bartulac Blanc

July 14, 2015   |   0 comments

Burmese democracy has a famously female face in Aung San Suu Kyi, but women are still underrepresented in politics. Electoral integrity expert Tihana Bartulac Blanc explores this phenomenon in Burmese politics and how to remedy it. ...
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CSOs & solar-powered computers to drive Cambodia’s electoral progress

By Christopher Smyser

June 29, 2015   |   0 comments

With the passage of long-awaited electoral reform laws, Cambodia’s civil society and an educated electorate will play a key role in ensuring that the laws in practice advance democracy. Solar-powered computers may be one innovative, environmentally-friendly and affordable tool to provide voter education and keep democracy on track....
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Curing the disease of electoral fraud

By Jeffrey Carlson

September 9, 2014   |   0 comments

Vote fraud is like a cancerous growth that will spread throughout the system and ultimately affect a state’s governance. If vote fraud is the disease, then the cure is creating and sustaining functioning electoral integrity systems that prevent, mitigate and deter vote fraud....
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Shortsighted in South Sudan

By Tihana Bartulac Blanc

June 16, 2014   |   0 comments

South Sudan’s 2010 elections and 2011 referendum are possibly the only positive experiences that the South Sudanese have had with political processes in their short history – and the electoral institutions that organized them are vital to the country’s ongoing peace process and to its political future. So why has international support to the National Election Commission come to a halt?...
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