Tagged: voting machines
The Election Network
Nigeria and South Africa: How Both Polls Differ
Two months after Nigeria held what has been termed the most controversial election in recent times, its counterpart in the south of the continent gets ready to decide its fate in a similar fashion. Nigeria’s elections suffered major setbacks from its sudden postponement to widespread reports of violence and electoral malpractice, marring the exercise. South […]
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
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
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 […]