The Voting Operations Topic area was originally written by Alan Wall and updated by Louise Olivier under the supervision of EISA from 2005-2006. The topic area also contains contributions from Sa Ngidi. Work on this topic area has been supported by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation.
Alan
Wall is an election consultant with over 20 years
of electoral administration and democracy advisory experience. From 1984 to
1994 he held various senior management positions with the Australian Electoral
Commission. He has since managed IFES projects in Azerbaijan in 1999 and in Indonesia
between 2000 to 2004, been a senior electoral official for the United Nations
in Eastern Slavonia in 1996 and Nigeria
in 1998, and was an advisor to the South African electoral authorities for the
local government elections of 1995. During 2005 and 2006 he has been Senior
Advisor to Democracy International, directing their local government election
support programs in Indonesia.
Consultancy projects he has undertaken include evaluating voter registration processes
in Iraq
and in Ukraine,
and the preparation of a Handbook of Electoral Management Design for
International IDEA.
Louise Olivier is a lawyer by training who has more than six years experience in the field of election management beginning with the Electoral Commission of South Africa where she worked in recruitment and training, legal services and research. She is based in Johannesburg, South Africa where she works as a consultant and conducts legal research for the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. She has undertaken electoral consultancy work for the African Union and the Commonwealth.
Ms Sa Ngidi is an elections practitioner with qualifications in law. She has worked for EISA managing EISA’s assistance to election practitioners in the SADC Region. Ms Ngidi gained her electoral experience at the Electoral Commission of South Africa where she was responsible for electoral matters in the volatile Kwazulu Natal Province for just under 5 years. She is based in Johannesburg, South Africa where she manages electoral matters for the Electoral Commission of South Africa, Gauteng Province. She has observed elections in Europe, Australia and Southern Africa.
