Colombia to introduce electronic voting in 2014
Colombia to introduce electronic voting in 2014
Monday, 06 February 2012 10:34 Mary
Cecelia Bittner
The Colombian government plans to implement an electronic voting system for the 2014 elections, reports newspaper Vanguardia.
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A forum led by Senator Juan Manuel Galan Pachon outlined a number of implementations that would improve Colombia's electoral system, including electronic voting, a fingerprinting system, and voter registration.
Pachon said that modernizing the electoral system would combat crimes like buying of votes, impersonation, identity theft, and 'transhumance' -- a method of electoral manipulation where voters move to cities other than their place of residence in order to vote for a particular candidate.
He compared the current system to a "broken telephone" that leaves room for human error and corruption. A difference of up to 10% had been found between pre-count and official vote counts, he said.
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