London, May 6th 2013. Smartmatic, a leading global provider of technology and services for automated elections, has announced the appointment of Marco Huberts as President of its Europe, Middle East and Africa operations (EMEA).

“It’s a great pleasure for me to welcome Marco to our management team. His experience and leadership will help our growth in these markets, helping forward-thinking electoral commissions to embrace projects toward more transparent, more efficient and more secure elections”, said Antonio Mugica, CEO of Smartmatic.

Huberts will undertake the overall responsibility of developing Smartmatic’s opportunities throughout EMEA, in particular those involving its electoral solutions business.

"I’m delighted to join Smartmatic's passionate, committed and knowledgeable team. I welcome the opportunity of working closely with electoral commissions and governments ...

Caracas, March 7th 2013.- “The Venezuelan voting system has been the most solid component of the electoral process. The current system, used in the last 5 national elections, has consistently safeguarded the integrity of the automated voting process”. This is one of the conclusions in the final report on the October 7th, 2012 Venezuelan Presidential Elections, prepared by the Carter Center’s Study Mission.

The text also explains that “in all these processes, both the opposition and the government have won and lost; and both have accepted the results”. The authors also add that those political parties which participated in the Presidential Elections agreed that the voting system provided by Smartmatic worked satisfactorily, “giving voters the chance to peacefully exercise their right to ...

Tbilisi, Georgia, February 25th 2013.- ‘Conflict Management in Electoral Processes’ – was the main topic of the third annual meeting of Election Management Bodies of Central Asia, Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, stated Zurab Kharatishvili, Chair of the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia, who afterwards expressed his satisfaction as the successful meeting's host.

For Mr. Kharatishvili, working with fellow high-level electoral officials from many countries, and having them share their experiences and practices, surely contributes to an improved electoral climate and international voting norms and customs.

This important event, organized by the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia with the cooperation of the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, was attended by representatives from the electoral commissions of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, ...

Caracas, December 17 2012.- For the second time this year, Venezuelan voters exercised their right to elect State Governors and representatives to Legislative Councils through a sophisticated electronic e-voting system that enabled electoral authorities to announce the official results in only 3 hours after the polls closed.
 
The modern technology used in the e-voting platform was designed, manufactured and implemented by Smartmatic, the leading developer of electronic voting systems in the world. Smartmatic's system has been in use in Venezuela since 2004.  

"Because our system is fully automated, Venezuela was able to conduct today's voting to elect Governors in 23 states and regional officials only 70 days after the nation's presidential election," said Antonio Mugica, CEO of Smartmatic. "From the registration of candidates, to the verification of the systems through early auditing, to ...