Summary
Safeguards should be in place to ensure the accuracy of the vote, no matter the form of balloting or counting used (manual, mechanical, or electronic).
Obligations
Election Parts
Criteria
Quotes
- ...[T]he legal framework should provide safeguards where technology is used to count ballots.
- [States should] ensure transparency of the electoral process, particularly in: 8.2.3. the conduct of the ballot: it is advisable to ensure that polling stations are appropriately designed, that transparent ballot boxes are used, that voting booths are available, that counting takes place in public and that distance voting is well regulated.
- The legal framework… should also provide safeguards where technology is used and ballots are counted other than manually.