There was a 25% increase in online voting since the last parliamentary election in the Baltic country with the longest-standing internet voting system in the world. Estonia continues to boasts an impressive culture of e-government.

The Guardian analyzes whether or not Britain should embrace electronic voting.

A record number of 176,491 Estonians citizens have voted electronically at the Riigikogu elections.

The House of Commons Speaker said that 2020 could be the first election in which people have the opportunity to vote online.

Antonio Mugica, director of SGO, spoke to BBC Newsbeat’s politics reporter Greg Dawson about the growing shift to different technologies for voting.

Smartmatic, the world’s leader in election automation, announced the recent establishment of the International Elections Advisory Council (IEAC). Richard Soudriette, founding President of the IFES, has been appointed Chairman.

SGO Chairman’s Mark Malloch Brown shared some ideas on the developing landscape of internet voting in The Staggers, the New Statesman’s rolling politics blog.

“There’s nothing more powerful in terms of reallocating resources among the poor than effective democracy which allows the poor a political voice.”

Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, the new Chairman of SGO spoke to CNN news anchor, Richard Quest, on the flagship news programme “Quest means Business”, about how the new company will ensure the integrity of elections around the world.

Smartmatic, líder mundial en tecnología y servicios de votación, presentó su enfoque holístico de la administración electoral durante la vigésima tercera Conferencia Anual de la Asociación de Oficiales Electorales de Europa (ACEEEO).