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The first dimension is to upgrade and consolidate the knowledge base of the ACE Project by introducing dynamic components, providing a set of interactive and networking functions and specialized services for the ACE community of users.

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The second dimension is to build the ACE Project as a “living” knowledge hub, by developing and consolidating the ACE Practitioners’ Network – a virtual “community of practice” in the field of electoral systems and processes.

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The third dimension is to introduce a “capacity development” component to the ACE Project with particular emphasis on training, professional advisory services and the promotion of peer partnerships, especially among electoral management bodies.

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• knowledge base: overall enhancement and upgrade of the core knowledge depository of the ACE Project

Electoral Systems

Legislative Framework

Electoral Management

Boundary Delimitation

Voter Education

Voter Registration

Voting Operations

Parties and Candidates

Vote Counting

Media and Elections

Election Integrity

Elections and Technology

The ACE Knowledge Base

Restructuring and upgrading the quality of existing texts, commissioning new ones, broadening the scope of the materials and introducing new themes. This general overhauling process is based on the assessment of practitioners’ needs and trends and innovations in the field of electoral systems and processes.

Restructuring and upgrading the quality of existing texts, commissioning new ones, broadening the scope of the materials and introducing new themes. This general overhauling process is based on the assessment of practitioners’ needs and trends and innovations in the field of electoral systems and processes.

Expansion of the ACE knowledge base through the provision of specialized services, the collection of resources and the production of high quality materials which are regularly fed-in by the Practitioners’ Network.

Expansion of the ACE knowledge base through the provision of specialized services, the collection of resources and the production of high quality materials which are regularly fed-in by the Practitioners’ Network.

Introduction of a new feature in the ACE webpage, a dynamic tool bar interacting with the main text of the ACE Project and bringing up links and resource materials having close relevance with issues highlighted in the core text.

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• existing components: integration and expansion of existing components of the current ACE Project

The ACE “Focus On…” Series

The ACE "Focus On" series explores in greater detail cross-cutting issues presented in the ACE Project. For each featured theme, the FOCUS ON highlights substantive issues, concepts and sample materials in the ACE Project and identifies additional online resources for users to research more information.

Elections and Disability

Direct Democracy

E-voting

HIV-AIDS and elections

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Case Studies

The current version of the ACE Project assembles 133 Case Studies on administration of elections and experiences in different countries, which were the contribution from practitioners and scholars around the world.

Emphasis will be put into the development and inclusion of new case studies from a broader number of countries; the regional dimension of the Practitioners’ Network offers an opportunity to broaden and enhance the collection of case studies of electoral experiences from different regions of the world.

Emphasis will be put into the development and inclusion of new case studies from a broader number of countries; the regional dimension of the Practitioners’ Network offers an opportunity to broaden and enhance the collection of case studies of electoral experiences from different regions of the world.

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Sample Materials

While extremely useful, the current Sample Materials section of the ACE Project is underutilized and presents some limits, such as the fact that materials are randomly selected, the collection is not too comprehensive and has geographical limitations, with most of the available resources pertaining to a non-representative number of countries.

Focus on transforming and expanding the current Sample Materials Section into a stand-alone project, a comprehensive database that systematically collects and makes available a wide range of resource materials on elections (such as: laws and regulations, reports, assessments, sample materials, studies, essays, news articles, etc)

Focus on transforming and expanding the current Sample Materials Section into a stand-alone project, a comprehensive database that systematically collects and makes available a wide range of resource materials on elections (such as: laws and regulations, reports, assessments, sample materials, studies, essays, news articles, etc)

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Glossary

The multi-language Glossary of electoral terms will be comprehensively revised, expanded and “contextualized” to make it more relevant to the various regions in the world where it is used.

The multi-language Glossary of electoral terms will be comprehensively revised, expanded and “contextualized” to make it more relevant to the various regions in the world where it is used.

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• external resources: integration of the ACE Project with already existing and closely related external resources

The Election Process Information Collection (EPIC)

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EPIC offers a systematic collection of how countries actually manage their elections. By presenting information about electoral systems, electoral management, legislative framework, voter registration, voter education and other related topics in a wide range of countries, users are able to compare, and identify common practice within electoral administration.

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Democracy Direct – IFES Virtual Resource Center

Democracy Direct is searchable database built by IFES from the F. Clifton White Resource Center’s collection of democracy materials from around the world including: Technical and Observer Mission Reports; Voter and Civic Education Posters; Election Analysis and Results from national elections worldwide; Videos and other multi-media materials; Information on electoral supplies, services and equipment; Compendiums of Election Laws from 22 countries (available in a variety of languages); and much more…

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Other Resources Online

Electoral System Design

The Voter Turnout Database

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• new functions: inclusion of new interactive and networking functions to be provided by the ACE Project

FUNCTIONS

The Practitioners’ Network website functions as a “gateway”, a portal integrating the consolidated knowledge and the advisory services provided by the network’s members, serving as well as a meeting place for online debates on substantive electoral topics.

FUNCTIONS

The Electoral Forum is a meeting place where the members of the Practitioners’ Network participate to online discussions and to stimulate debate on topics relating to electoral systems, structures, administration, legislation, principles, etc.

Serve as a portal for the integrated services and consolidated knowledge of the Practitioners’ Network

FUNCTIONS

An educational tool developed on the 12 topic areas. By undertaking the ACE Electoral Quiz, users may test and expand their knowledge of the 12 topic areas of the ACE Project, examine issues deeper and improve professional skills.

The Practitioners’ Network

Create a virtual meeting place to discuss technical issues, exchange ideas and know-how

Equip ACE users with an interactive educational tool that enables them to maximize their knowledge

The ACE Electoral Quiz

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Global Electoral WatchA newsletter-type facility, listing events such as seminars and conferences, providing online tutorials, compilations of training materials, information and contact details of available courses, staff exchanges, scholarships and job opportunities.

Promote professional development in electoral administration

FUNCTIONS

Electoral Advice Online offers interactive, online advisory services on electoral administration, processes and systems. Through this “help desk” resource, users submit questions to the members of the ACE Practitioners’ Network and get timely and professional electoral advice online.

FUNCTIONS

Questions & Answers is an online archive that collects the pool of questions submitted by users and answers produced by the experts, making them available to the ACE community at large.

Serve as a repository of “dynamic” knowledge, produced on effective needs

Provide professional advisory services online

The second dimension for the ACE Global Network envisions the establishment of a “community of practice” in the field of election systems and

processes – the “ACE Practitioners’ Network”.

As one of the three main dimensions of the ACE Project, the Practitioners’ Network represents the foundation, inspiration and main source for enhancing

and updating the ACE knowledge base.

In terms of building and enhancing the ACE knowledge base, the Network’s primary functions are to:

produce relevant and high-quality knowledge, services and core resources to the ACE Project (such as development of the topic areas,

case studies, reports, white papers, other materials and information generated by its members, provision of advisory services);

disseminate and put into effective use such knowledge, services and resources;

ensure quality-control and their relevance.

The Practitioners’ Network constitutes a means of bringing together and supporting a group of individuals sharing common interests and

professional responsibilities.

The Practitioners’ Network constitutes a means of bringing together and supporting a group of individuals sharing common interests and

professional responsibilities.


• consolidate and expand knowledge: moving forward the field of election administration


• consolidate and expand knowledge: moving forward the field of election administration The ACE Practitioners’ Network is built on major areas of specialization

corresponding to each of the 12 topic areas of the core text of the ACE Project:

Electoral SystemsElectoral SystemsVoting OperationsVoting OperationsVoter RegistrationVoter RegistrationVoter EducationVoter EducationBoundary DelimitationBoundary DelimitationElectoral ManagementElectoral ManagementLegislative FrameworkLegislative FrameworkElections and TechnologyElections and TechnologyElection IntegrityElection IntegrityMedia and ElectionsMedia and ElectionsVote CountingVote CountingParties and CandidatesParties and Candidates



Supports the development of the ACE knowledge base through its sub-networks, topic area-based

Produces and collects electoral resource materials, provides knowledge and information

Develops and disseminates new, regionally-based and locally-owned case studies

Provides high quality professional electoral advisory services

Generates materials for the “Questions & Answers” archive of the Practitioners’ Network portal

Creates capacity development opportunities, peer-to-peer exchanges, secondments, topic-related professional visits, events and job opportunities

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• share knowledge: establishing a professional community of practice

The ACE Practitioners’ Network serves as a vehicle for:

the building of common standards, language, methods and models around specific technical, legal, procedural issues relating to elections;

the delivery of professional advisory services - both among the same Network members and to the ACE community at large;

the establishment of a “network of peers” who are in constant contact and interaction, who can rely on and each other, break isolation, solve problems and get timely support;

the creation of opportunities for face-to-face meetings and professional development events either globally or at a regional level.

request and get mutual support and solicit input for solutions.

As a community of practice, the ACE Practitioners’ Network enables election practitioners to:

exchange information and know-how;

share opinions, experiences and lessons learned;

debate technical issues online;




the first peer group comprises electoral practitioners who – regardless of where they live in the world - are grappling with the

same or similar issues;

the second group, those working in the same region, who are familiar with the social, cultural, geographical and historical

particularities of this given area.

The ACE Practitioners’ Network is based on two man streams:




• provide knowledge services: offering the combined knowledge services of the network members to the ACE users

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Next week our Election Commission will participate to Parliamentary Hearing to decide on the introduction of electronic voting machines based on the Indian model.

With these machines there is no possibility of an invalid or blank vote. We would urgently like to know your opinion on whether we should include in the machines a blank vote option as a choice for the voter:

Is a blank vote a voter’s right? Do protest votes play an important function?

How have other countries having electronic voting systems dealt with such an issue?

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Though the Indian Electronic Voting machines (EVMs) can be programmed to record “NOTA” option (apropos Michael), the reason it is not so recorded lies in the experience of the past. In the FPTP voting system of India, contest at the provincial level could be quite close. Many times the difference between the winning candidate and the trailing candidate is less then the total invalid votes. As you are aware, in the Indian type of EVM at present there is no scope for an invalid or void vote. But if “NOTA” option were to be introduced, then a large number of those Indian voters who are illiterate, might mistaken it for some candidate and thus cast vote which will essentially be an invalid vote. Moreover, in the absence of a legal provision, a voter can not exercise the NTOA option. Thus in countries where there is no option available at present to exercise this option, there it may not be advisable to introduce this option. Similarly where this option already exists then configuring machines to record NOTA should present no problem. By the way, in India, instead of NOTA option, to show their dissatisfaction and angst with politicians, sometimes all the voters from certain village decide to boycott the elections: a collective exercise of NOTA option!!!

Let me add a couple of comments to Horatio, and Michael's and others' input. I just returned from observing the US election. In Florida, the ballot not only involved elections for President, Senate and Congress, but also for multiple local offices and for local initiatives. In this kind of situation where would one draw the line on "none of the above" and what would be the criteria for inclusion or exclusion of this option??? Personally I favour the inclusion of the option but choosing it would result in a rejected ballot in order to avoid the complications described. The rejected ballots would then be subdivided into none of the above ballots, and ballots rejected for other reasons.Ron

To add a few quick comments to the mix. My colleague Kevin Bodel has made the point that if machines are to be configured in this way, it would be necessary to specify in the law what will be the consequences if (a) "None of the Above" (NOTA) wins an absolute majority (eg NOTA 60%, Party A 25%, Party B 15%); or (b) NOTA wins a plurality but less than 50% (eg NOTA 40%, Party A 35%, Party B 25%). (It has the potential to get messier in preferential and proportional systems (for example, if there are 10 vacancies and NOTA wins a quota, should the number of vacancies to be filled by live candidates drop to 9?), but I won't worry about that at the moment.) It seems to me that whether or not providing voting for NOTA would be a good thing will vary from case to case. It will be most justified in situations where the people are genuinely badly served by all of their politicians, and where voting is in effect a sham, or bordering on it - but those are exactly the sorts of cases in which the elites would have too much sense to introduce it. In more democratic systems its effects would be more problematical. My personal view is that the system should encourage (though not necessarily compel) people to exercise their power to choose. There will always be some people who are genuinely indifferent between the candidates (and they will normally have the option of abstaining), or who feel strongly about lodging a protest vote; but I think that offering NOTA as an explicit option might encourage some people to make a rather glib statement (cynicism being much admired in some circles), when they are not really indifferent between the remaining candidates. I'm not sure that anyone would really be better off for that. Michael

I fully agree with Nadia's comment. I just would like to add a specific comment. Almost all the machines I know about allow a blank vote (or undervote, as it is the name in the US jargon). Most of them will inform the voter that s/he is issuing a blank/under vote and ask s/he to ratify the decision to avoid blank votes being issued by mistake.When voting with paper ballots, the inclusion of a box "None of the above" allows differentiating between blank ballots cast by ignorance or mistake from "purposeful" blank ballots, in the sense that the person does not want to vote for any of the available candidates. It is because there is that difference that the inclusion of a specific box "None of the above" makes sense in paper based systems.In the world of machines, if the machine requires a ratification in the case of a blank/under vote, this is the equivalent of including an specific box. The voter has opted by a blank vote after being informed that s/he might be incurring in error. I think that the addition of a specific "none of the above" makes sense in the world of machines only if the machine does not inform the voter in case of blank/under votes.

Switzerland has options for blank votes with e-voting, since blank votes are taken into account when it comes to voter turnout. I think the answer is quite simple - wherever a blank vote is a possibility in a country, then it has to be offered with e-voting as well. Vice versa - e-voting should not offer a possibility (i.e. blank vote) that the traditional way of casting a ballot does not offer. All voters should be treated equally. Best, Nadja

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capacity development The capacity development dimension focuses on types of services:

the delivery of training and other professional development activities for election officials from developing countries or emerging democracies;

the provision of technical advisory services;

the promotion of peer partnerships (especially among electoral management bodies), including staff exchanges and technical visits among peer organizations.

The capacity development dimension of the ACE Global Network endeavors to:

increase the capacity of electoral management bodies to perform their duties in an efficient and professional manner;

enhance the ability of electoral management bodies to function as learning organizations;

promote a greater professionalism among electoral administrators;

assist EMBs, governments and legal bodies in developing, reviewing or improving improve the legal, policy and regulatory frameworks of elections.

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The Election Process Information Collection (EPIC) Project

This comprehensive online database collects comparative and country-by-country data on election systems, laws, management and administration

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VR01. What is the legal voting age in the national elections?

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elections?

VR05. What is the registration method for national elections?

VR06. How frequently is the voters register updated?

VR08. Is it compulsory to be on the voters register?

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VR07. What methods are used to compile and update the voters register?

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Electoral Resources Online aims at providing a focal point for gathering and sharing existing information, knowledge and resources on electoral processes and systems.

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Cambodia – Voter Registration Form – 1993 National ad Provincial ElectionsThis document is the specimen of the voter registration form used to register eligible voters for the 1993 National elections held under the auspices of the peacekeeping mission of the “United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia” (UNTAC). Registration of voters lasted for several months, enrolling an approximate 23 million citizens for the first democratic elections ever held in Cambodia. Added by Lotta Lann - 12 Apr 2004 add to “my folder” download

Georgia - Voter Registration System - Technical Assessment - ODIHR 1999This paper is a comprehensive technical assessment conducted by the “Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights” (ODIHR). The document examines the system used in Georgia to compile the voters’ lists, highlights the flaws and problems affecting it, and offers a a set of realistic recommendations for the legal and technical reform of Georgia’s voter registration system. .Added by Antonio Spinelli - 22 Apr 2004 add to “my folder” download

East Timor – UNTAET Voter Registration Card - 2001 ElectionsThis is a sample of the voter registration form developed and adopted by the “United Nations Transitional Administration In East Timor” (UNTAET). Final voter registration records indicated a total 778,989 East Timorese registered. On polling day, Timorese voters elected 88 representatives from 12 political parties to form the Constituent Assembly that drafted East Timor's first Constitution.Added by Stina Larserud - 12 Apr 2004 add to “my folder” download

Yemen – Voter Registration Diagnosis – UNDP 2000This study, conducted by the “United Nations Development Programme” (UNDP), examines different alternatives to reform Yemen to voter registration system. It provides an in-depth analysis of three alternatives to reform the systems, including advantages and disadvantages of the each, costs and technology implications, possible challenges and finally a set of recommendations is also offered. Added by Antonio Spinelli - 22 Apr 2004 add to “my folder” download

Iraq: Voter Registration – Out of Country OIM - 2005A study of the Out Of country Voter registration operation conducted by the International Organization for Migrations (IOM) for the January 2005 National Assembly elections in Iraq. This study examines the complexities of this operation as well as the best practices and the l.

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Photographic voters´ lists, pro and cons. I would like to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of establishing a photo voters´ register in addition to photo voter IDs (which appears very expensive, complex and time

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Soy una profesora de Ciencia Política y de la Administración de la Universidad de Valencia. Estaría interesada en los "materiales de muestra" que se indican en su página web sobre el proyecto “Administración y Costo de Elecciones”. No

sé por qué cuando intento consultarlo es como si estuviera vacío o no se pudiera acceder a él. Lo he probado varios días sin éxito. Por un trabajo que estoy elaborando, me interesaría tener una muestra de papeletas de votación de distintos

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Message sent on: 14 June 2004 13:21

Well, by referring to a mixed proportional representation system, I intended to bring into the discussion a possible alternative that, for personal experience, proved to be responsive to an environment similar to the one being examined. Anyway, your opinion is welcome, as it provides a a new and interesting perspective on this very subject.

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Frankly, I am convinced that the question posed by andell is not being address from the right angle. In your which is the fact that these type of electoral systems seem to have produced controversial results in terms of political representation when adopted and implemented in transitional situations.

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My experience with this topic is somehow limited, but I would invite you to cover this subject also from a point of view of representation, including women, the illiterate and disabled voters and minority and other vulnerable segments of the society.

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Good point! I would like to add that, when considering transitional elections in post-conflict environments, one has to also give careful consideration the proper sequencing of the various operations and aspects comprisingo the technical and political aspects of the transition process…

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