This manual, published jointly by NDI and IFES, addresses the challenges, opportunities and risks to adopting and monitoring electronic voting and counting technologies. The manual is designed as a resource for democracy and governance specialists, election management bodies, election observers and political parties. It offers 25 country examples, including three in-depth case studies on Brazil, the Netherlands and the Philippines, highlighting lessons learned with these technologies, as well as practical nearly 20 checklists of key considerations.
KABUL – Key reforms enacted since widespread fraud marred Afghanistan’s 2009 and 2010 polls have brought about a guarded optimism among political and civic leaders that next year’s presidential and provincial council elections will be better, according to the findings of a pre-election assessment mission fielded by the National Democratic Institute (NDI).