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A government official checks voting machines before the 2010 presidential election in Brazil. Francisco Simoes
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An election worker in the Philippines checks a print out from a Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machine during a test of the voting system. The May 2010 national elections were the country's first fully automated polls. Mielyne Rayos
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An election worker tests equipment in Brazil. Incorporating isolated communities into electronic voting systems can be challenging due to the need for reliable data transmission. Igor Oliveira
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Election workers compile results from precincts across Kosovo at a central counting office in Pristina during the 2010 parliamentary elections.
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Election officials work to issue voter identification cards to registering voters in Nigeria in early 2011. Workers in a registration center divide up tasks in the registration process. One processes a registrant's fingerprints, photograph and information
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Members of the Kenyan election commission visit the Philippines Commission on Elections to learn about that country's experience implementing a nationwide automated voting system in 2010. V. Fidel Guidote
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Poll workers at a voting station in Oslo, Norway, check voters against an online register to confirm their eligibility and determine whether they have already voted at another polling station.
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Norway's Ministry for Local Government and Rural Development piloted an Internet voting system for its September 2011 local government elections. Votes received online were processed using three separate servers for each step in the process cleansing, mix
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Georgia Central Election Commission Chairman Zurab Kharatishvili announces election data to news media ready to broadcast the results. In addition to technology directly aiding election process, communications technology has changed the way election offic
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A polling official in Washington, D.C., demonstrates his precinct's electronic voting equipment during the 2010 congressional elections. As technology is introduced in the electoral process, transparency can be promoted by ensuring that voters and observe
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Electronic voting machines are tested in advance of the 2010 national elections in the Philippines. Paperless voting methods are often used to prevent fraud and can allow results to be transmitted efficiently.
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Men wear t-shirts advertising an SMS service allowing Ugandan voters to check their registration information via text message in 2011. The greatest number of texts 179,283 of them were received the day the polls opened. Demand peaked on Election Day when
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A screenshot of a new voter registration database in Nepal shows the data collected by the country's voter registration system, including a photo and fingerprints to better identify voters
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An election worker shows a woman in Nepal how to use a thumb scanner as part of the fingerprint recognition technology used in Nepal's voter registration system.