The first round of France’s legislative elections saw participation levels hit their highest level since the 1980s. They also set a new record: over 410,000 votes were cast online by French citizens living abroad.

Online voting is becoming more and more common. Could it be the future of elections? Read our guide to the potential advantages, as well as key issues in security and trust.

With many Ukrainians displaced by the war or unable to attend physical meetings, Condominium E-Voting empowers residents to address vital issues with just a few taps on their devices.

The impasse surrounding electronic voting in trade unions in the UK has implications for democracy, workers’ rights, and government influence.

In 2021 Pakistan tried introducing electronic voting machines. In 2022 that decision was reversed. What went wrong and what can we learn?

Ahead of a series of elections in 2023, Nigeria’s electoral authority introduced the new Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), which uses facial recognition and fingerprinting to authenticate voters. In theory it was a big step towards electoral integrity – but on election day, almost nothing went as planned. Daniel Stefanov reports on what went wrong, and what lessons we can take away from it.

A team of researchers in the UK has developed an e-voting system which allows voters to confirm that their vote was correctly counted, while also preserving the secrecy of the ballot. One of the team, Feng Hao, talked us through how the “self-enforcing e-voting” system works. 

Many of us are familiar with the term e-voting, but, hastened by the pandemic, technology is finding its way into ever more stages of the electoral process. From election planning and voter registration to electoral justice, technology can be a valuable tool in improving efficiency and security. But a 2022 report from the Community of Democracies surveying the use of technology in the electoral process of a number of its members, finds that successful implementation is complicated and there is no one-size-fits-all solution to free and fair elections.

Overseas voting would seem to be an obvious use case for digital democracy. Yet for citizens living abroad voting can be an odd mix of old and new.

Whether we vote manually or using voting machines may seem like a purely formal matter. Yet the case of Brazil demonstrates how a voting system can actually improve citizens’ well-being through higher and more equal political participation.