Caracas, February 13th 2012.- Once again, Smartmatic's robust automated voting system was used with total success  in yet another Venezuelan election. This time an alliance of opposition parties, grouped under the banner of Coalition for Democratic Unity, carried out primary elections in order to choose their presidential candidate for the upcoming October 7 presidential elections, and the candidates for the governor and mayor elections scheduled for December 16 and April 13, respectively.  

In this electoral event, without precedent in Venezuela, 268 coalition candidates were chosen: 17 candidates for state governors, 250 candidates for mayors and 1 presidential candidate, among 1,108 nominated individuals.

The primary elections began at 8:00 am with the opening of the polling stations. Throughout the day, the candidates urged the voters to participate en masse, praising the virtues of the voting system provided by ...

Brussels, January 30th, 2012.- Belgian federal and regional governments of Flanders and Brussels have chosen Smartmatic as the technology provider to supply - for 15 years - its innovative automated election system, starting with the local elections that will take place in October, 2012.

The advanced voting system created by Smartmatic and customized specifically to support Belgian and European regulations, involves the use of a touch-based Electronic Voting Machine with 17-inch high resolution screen.

"We are thrilled to have been selected as the service and technology providers for the elections in Belgium, a pioneer nation regarding the use of electronic voting. Along with the Belgian authorities, we have been working very hard to develop and offer a new and improved state-of-the-art electronic voting system that fully complies with all requirements, guaranteeing the most secure, reliable and auditable elections. We feel ...

Mendoza, December 14, 2011.-  With the participation of the Civic Foundation, the Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical UCR) is boosting the use of electronic voting in the upcoming elections in Mendoza, Argentina. The proposal is backed up by two bills: one from the Senators Carlos Aguinaga (PD) and Sergio Moralejo (UCR) and one from the Deputy Zalazar Tadeo Garcia, who believe that next year, changes could be implemented with a single ballot electoral reform and a fixed election date for governor, different from the national and presidential and different from municipal elections.

The system to be implemented (electronic vote) was showcased yesterday at a presentation by Carlos Gonzalez of multinational Smartmatic, who noted that the system meets the requirements of safety, speed and reliability.

During the demonstration where it was used a small voting machine with two boards, was showed that there are four steps to cast the ...

Canberra, Australia, December 1st, 2011.- Multinational technology company Smartmatic presented its advanced Identity Management solution, PARmobile and PARclient, at the 7th Biometrics Institute Technology's Showcase & Exhibition recently held in Canberra, Australia, where hundreds of providers showed the latest products and services aimed at supporting government institutions in the implementation of identity management and authentication processes.

PARmobile and PARclient are an all-in-one package designed to help governments in its registration requirements. Smartmatic's solution provides a true solution when it comes to people registration and authentication processes, from migration to enrollment, consolidation to detection of duplicates, adjudication, and all the way up to issuance of ID documents.

"Our Identity Management solution is the future of biometric identification ...