Votes&Ballots Podcast

10/02/2024

President Aliyev was re-elected to a fifth term on 7 February in a snap observers said was neither free nor fair. Initial figures from the CES indicated Aliyev won 92.4% of the vote with 70.85% turnout as of 17:00 local time.

President Ilham Aliyev was re-elected to a fifth term on 7 February in a snap election observers said was neither free nor fair. Initial figures from the Central Election Commission (MSK) indicated Aliyev won 92.4 per cent of the vote with 70.85 per cent turnout as of 17:00 local time. Aliyev won th...

09/02/2024

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/02/08/tsik-otkazal-borisu-nadezhdinu-v-registratsii-kandidatom-na-prezidentskikh-vyborakh-news?fbclid=IwAR1WyOBvUVGNv3Ke4qZUhTXXoBY_CXmoPUVrpMByiP8E5rZbZ-m4i3yRBB4_aem_AbwS3vnw0EeKT1Ine9_tSQgZ11idPwjinAI7ftj8sEVSleeZ_9tGxLSUyknesrIOOFQ

Центризбирком отказал Борису Надеждину в регистрации кандидатом на президентских выборах. Об этом говорится в официальной трансляции заседания на ютюб-канале «З....

31/01/2024

31/01/2024

Russian anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin said on Wednesday he had submitted 105,000 signatures of support to the Central Election Commission (CEC), technically enough to challenge incumbent Vladimir Putin in the March presidential election.

29/09/2023

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/breaking-musk-fires-entire-election-integrity-team-at-x?fbclid=IwAR3jQVxg5bLSOuQCLDY14PPwU6iVelqnV177bUXI-NFWlxr6KywGKhLbGXY_aem_AbjBK6BMcwXC-HenXD3W1kmQKNesid6A0W3MV-3wRZT8e6pG1XW4EcuS4lPOatvCREE

Here we go.

15/09/2023

🔹 "Fake" observers identified during pseudo-elections in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories

On September 10, 2023, Russian authorities held the annual “single voting day” not only within their borders but also in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.

With the aim of providing a degree of international legitimacy to the otherwise illegitimate Russian elections in Ukrainian territories, Russian occupation forces brought a number of foreigners to the occupied parts of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts to perform a role of “international election observers

🔴 In total, we've identified 34 non-Russian foreign individuals who acted as politically biased "fake" election observers

👉 Find the full list of in our press statement: https://bit.ly/3Rlia0s
👉 database: http://fakeobservers.org

Our research on politically biased "fake" election observation: https://bit.ly/3RnSkc9

Centre for Democratic Integrity

15/09/2023

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-protect-2024-election?fbclid=IwAR2VDn0GmQt6AxM2KhqeGL-xwZ0qNrlj6xjJ-A99puZUU7VxhbtqVp3WHjs

States must make key reforms to defend against election subversion.

08/09/2022

Where is the first place in the world institutionally pre-printed ballot papers to be used?

a/ UK
b/US
c/Tasmania
d/Bulgaria

23/01/2022

A draft executive order that then-President Donald Trump considered signing in December 2020 would've directed the Pentagon to seize voting machines in key states and hunt for evidence of fraud

The Jan. 6 select panel has obtained the draft order and a document titled "Remarks on National Healing." Both are reported here in detail for the first time.

22/01/2022

10/01/2022

This is my piece on the Iraqi election 2021 and the use of technology.

"... in many cases the super-technologization of the elections played a very negative role for the process of election organization. In those cases, simple technical shortcomings decreased the level of public trust in the process instead of increasing it. That is why the super technological election in Iraq in 2021 was so interesting to be observed."

Some years ago there was a trend that could be seen mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and some Central Asian countries to implement a wide range…

04/01/2022

Incumbent leaders in France, Hungary, Slovenia and more face hurdles ahead.

09/12/2021

09/12/2021

The new episode of Votes&Ballots:

How Trump attacked the public trust in elections and how the post-election audits can help? How these audits should be done?

https://soundcloud.com/user-162844759/votesballots-ep-7-how-to-secure-elections-with-david-levine?si=55b8b23ba6ac4e69a42d6a14ee2b5ca1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

06/09/2021

“In principle, if well used, technology can bring cost-effectiveness and transparency and level playing ground. If ill used it brings exactly the contrary - opacity, political parties not trusting the process, and conflict. The use of technology in an electoral process is strictly linked to trust enjoyed by the Election management body, and what is the perception of trust that the electorate have in this use of technology”

05/09/2021

How to support elections? The new episode of Votes&Ballots with Fabio Bargiacchi, founder and Executive Director of the European Center for Electoral Support!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4X7YHMBIIBD4SDqXYRzo4W?si=T3iluy5GS2ysEe9rMIiZVw&dl_branch=1

Apple Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/votes-and-ballots-podcast-ep-6-how-to-support/id1553612057?i=1000534361056&l=en

13/08/2021

02/07/2021

Can a democratic election put an end to the crisis in Belarus?
Alexander Shlyk, former head of Election department of OSCE and current adviset at Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's Office:

"The entry point for this crisis in Belarus was the falsified elections. So the only way out of the crisis is the good election. We are not speaking of the current regime holding an election…"

https://soundcloud.com/user-162844759/votes-and-ballots-podcast-ep-5-democratic-elections-in-belarus-with-alexander-shlyk

23/06/2021

A cartoon by Matt Reuter.

16/02/2021

Votes&Ballots podcast is already on Apple Podcasts!

https://podcasts.apple.com/bg/podcast/votes-ballots/id1553612057

‎Government · 2021

13/02/2021

Superb job by IDEA: the medical protocols how to vote under COVID-19.

At the start of the pandemic, many countries postponed elections. From June 2020, the trend shifted to holding elections. Thanks to information sharing and peer-to-peer exchanges, election authorities gained an understanding of the risks and prevention/mitigation measures. To date, more than 100 cou...

13/02/2021

From remote corners of the Himalayas to crocodile-infested mangrove swamps of the Andaman Islands, government officials travelled by foot, road, train, helicopter, boat and sometimes elephant to enable people to vote.

12/02/2021

Catalans will head to the polls on 14 February to elect a new parliament, in a critical juncture for both the independence movement and those opposing it in…

10/02/2021

What are the latest trends in elections observation?
Hear in the latest episode of Votes&Ballots with Patrick Costello from EEAS!

https://soundcloud.com/user-162844759/votes-and-ballots-podcast-ep-4-eu-eoms-in-2021-with-patrick-costello

In Ep. 4 I interview Mr. Patrick Costello, the head of division in the EEAS dealing election observation missions. What are these missions, why we need them, what EOMs in 2021, trends in election obse

10/02/2021

What will be the EUEOMs in 2021?

The answer from Mr. Patrick Costello from EEAS in the new episode of Votes&Ballots!

https://soundcloud.com/user-162844759/votes-and-ballots-podcast-ep-4-eu-eoms-in-2021-with-patrick-costello

In Ep. 4 I interview Mr. Patrick Costello, the head of division in the EEAS dealing election observation missions. What are these missions, why we need them, what EOMs in 2021, trends in election obse

18/01/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X4uKUtScNA&fbclid=IwAR1Z4xMC1_Ts_x1Nm4WOvQmRBaVHMPHJMzW_45VVvpwd-JiXFdAs7EFgzZY

As part of the College of Social Sciences inaugural lecture series, we are delighted to present the inaugural lecture of Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democrac...

04/01/2021

GUEST PODCAST: The Votes and Ballots podcast interviewed Erik Asplund, International IDEA's Electoral Processes programmer officer about Elections and COVID-19. This external podcast is only available on the Votes and Ballots Soundcloud platform. Many countries that have held elections during the pa...

03/12/2020

Ep.3: How to hold an elections under COVID19: Interview with Erik Asplud from the International IDEA.

Votes&Ballots Podcast - the first podcast about elections Episode 3: Interview with Erik Asplund from the International IDEA: How to hold an election under COVID19