TECHNOLOGY
Conrad Omodiagbe
Fire Guts DRC Electoral Commission Destroying over 8,000 Voting Machines
With just 9 days left to the December 23rd presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a fire has reportedly destroyed over 8,000 voting machines in the country’s capital of Kinshasha, according to the nation’s electoral body. The country’s National Election Commission (CENI) reported that the fire broke out in the early hours of […]
Conrad Omodiagbe
Facebook Looks to Tackle Fake News Ahead of Nigeria’s 2019 Polls
As part of its commitment to transparency, the Facebook team in Nigeria has expressed their desire to fight the current trend of fake news shared across the internet ahead of the Nigerian general elections scheduled to hold in February next year. Announcing this at an exhibition for members of the press and the general public, […]
Conrad Omodiagbe
Fake News and its role in Brazil’s 2018 Elections
According to an investigation carried out by a Brazilian publication, Folha, supporters of the new president elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, made use of the Facebook-owned social media platform, WhatsApp, to disperse unverified information about his major opposition during the October polls. With 55 percent of the votes casted in October, Bolsonaro allegedly benefited from […]
Conrad Omodiagbe
Pennsylvania Commits to New Voting Machines and Audits for 2020
Following the ruling in favour of the Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein’s 2016 suit seeking for recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan (which played a large role in deciding the 2016 polls) Governor Tom Wolf has affirmed the state’s commitment to buying voting systems that keep verifiable paper records in 2020. Stein filed the […]
Asari Ndem
New Voting Technology in Maltese Elections
A tech company has set out to quicken the pace of vote-counting and reduce human error in Maltese elections. A vote counting hall in the country has recently been upgraded to include new machines to improve vote counting at the end of elections, housing a new electronic system for European elections. The new machines will reportedly scan […]
Asari Ndem
Voting Machines have an unexpected enemy, the weather
Americans who voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections had to contend with various factors like voter suppression, long queues at polling booths and, shockingly, the weather. In Georgia, many voters reported being unable to feed their ballots into the voting machines and machine experts have diagnosed the problem, humidity. “Across Georgia, heavy rain is an added hurdle for […]
Asari Ndem
Portugal’s plan to fight fake news ahead of its 2019 election
Following the permeation of fake news in America’s political landscape, the National Election Commission of Portugal is putting measures in place to combat the spread of ‘alternative facts’ ahead of the country’s general elections next year. Portugal’s Election Commission and National Cyber Security Centre have reportedly been working on initiatives to minimise the problem of […]