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From Ballots to Touch Screens: Integrating Technology into Voting
Digital ballot readers, electronic results transmission systems and SMS messaging to inform the electorate can help countries streamline and improve the electoral process. As election management bodies turn to technology to help run elections, they must take their country's cultural, political and legal context into consideration to ensure the new systems enhance — and don't disrupt — democracy. This gallery shows some of the technological tools that are being used around the world.
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Inching Toward Democracy: Guinea’s Election Progress
Since the December 2008 coup d'etat that ended 50 years of authoritarian rule in Guinea, the West African nation has continued its democratic evolution.
News & Updates
Feature
The Philippines Goes to the Polls
On May 10, 2010 Filipinos went to the polls to cast ballots for president, vice-president, senators, congressmen, governors, mayors and other key offices in their national and local election. For the first time ever, Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines were used nation-wide. These images, taken by John Lawrence, IFES congressional affairs manager, provide a glimpse into the preparations for Election Day and the polling day itself in the Manila metropolitan area.
Election Material
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France Candidate Info - Jacques CHAMINADE
Candidate information packet provided to voters in advance of the French Presidential election on 22 April 2012. This pamphlet lays out the platform for Jacques CHAMINADE, candidate for the Solidarity and Progress Party (Solidarité et Progrès).
Election Material
Ballot
France Candidate Info - Jean-Luc MELANCHON
Candidate information packet provided to voters in advance of the French Presidential election on 22 April 2012. This pamphlet lays out the platform for Jean-Luc MELANCHON, candidate for the Left Front (Front de gauche).
Election Material
Ballot
France Candidate Info - Marine LE PEN
Candidate information packet provided to voters in advance of the French Presidential election on 22 April 2012. This pamphlet lays out the platform for Marine LE PEN, candidate of the National Front (Front National).
Election Material
Ballot
France Candidate Info - Nicolas DUPONT-AIGNAN
Candidate information packet provided to voters in advance of the French Presidential election on 22 April 2012. This pamphlet lays out the platform for Nicolas DUPONT-AIGNAN, candidate for Arise the Republic (Debout la République).
Election Material
Ballot
France Candidate Info - Nicolas SARKOZY
Candidate information packet provided to voters in advance of the French Presidential election on 22 April 2012. This pamphlet lays out the platform for Nicolas Sarkozy, candidate for the Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire).
Election Material
Ballot
France Candidate Info - Philippe POUTOU
Candidate information packet provided to voters in advance of the French Presidential election on 22 April 2012. This pamphlet lays out the platform for Philippe POUTOU, candidate for the New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste).
Election Material
Ballot
France Presidential Ballots 2012
Ballot papers and ballot envelope for the first round of the French Presidential election held on 22 April 2012. To vote, a voter would fold the paper containing the name of her/his preferred candidate and place it in the envelope. The main candidates in the first round of voting were Nicolas SARKOZY, Francois HOLLANDE, Francois BAYROU, Marine LE PEN, and Jean-Luc MELENCHON.