Feature Articles

			Strengthening Electoral Processes: the Role of EMBs between Elections, Civil Registry and International Electoral Observation The Organization of American States (OAS) and Elections Canada hosted the Sixth Inter-American Meeting of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) in Ottawa, Canada from June 21-23. The event highlighted the role of EMBs between elections, civil registration and international observation.
			Open Source Software and the Electoral Assistance Community Expanding the use of open source software may offer new opportunities for the electoral assistance community to improve coordination and modernize assistance missions.
			Roadblocks to the 2010 Palestinian Elections Several critical challenges must be overcome ahead of the critical 2010 Palestenian elections.
			Combining Civil and Voter Registration: Advantages and Limitations A recent report analyzes the benefits and limitations of combining the civil and voter registration processes based on the experiences of both developed and growing democracies.

 

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New ACE FOCUS ON

• ELECTORAL LAWS: A Macroscopic Perspective

The newest installment in the ACE Focus-On series examines electoral law from a global perspective. It focuses on nine aspects: legal framework, electoral management, boundary delimitation, voter registration, political parties and candidates, media, voting operations, vote counting and voter education, with the purpose of indicating what kinds of regulations are most and least frequent and pointing out some factors that are related to the adoption or non adoption of these rules.



New ACE Consolidated replies

• Family and proxy voting in Macedonia

"In line with international standards and the regional forum’s recommendations to outlaw and eliminate family voting, UNDP Macedonia is planning to launch a project aimed at raising public awareness on vote secrecy accentuating that proxy and family voting is a strong violation of electoral rights. We are wondering if colleagues, when working with elections in other parts of the world, have already faced similar problems of group/family voting? How did they tackle the matter, provided that regulation prohibiting proxy-family voting is not enforced?"

• Gender Quotas in African Countries

"What are some strategies and legislation in African countries that call for the 30% quota? Have any of the quotes been adopted in national constitutions?"

• Conduct during Elections for Civil Servants and Ministers

"This question is a request for comparative information regarding Campaign/Election related Codes of Conduct for Ministers and Civil Servants."

Special events

Electoral Administration Fellowship Program

The International Electoral Education Council conducts Electoral Fellowships at national EMB offices to provide students with first-hand learning experiences. See more here.

Association of European Election Officials Annual Conference

September 3-5, 2009 Yerevan, Armenia

http://www.aceeeo.org/

American Political Science Association 2009 Annual Meeting & Exhibition

September 3-6, Toronto, ON, Canada

http://www.apsanet.org/content_2665.cfm

VoteID 2009

September 7-8, 2009 Luxembourg

http://voteid2009.uni.lu/

World e-Democracy Forum

October 22-23, 2009 Paris, France

http://www.edemocracy-forum.com/

The Fourth Annual EISA Symposium

November 17 – 18, 2009 Johannesburg, South Africa

http://www.eisa.org.za/