New Delhi: Chief election commissioner V.S. Sampath has expressed ECI’s readiness to share the Commission’s expertise and experience with more countries, under UNDP aegis for the 2014 General Elections. He suggested holding of an international workshop for senior election officials to share experiences and discuss improvements in election management strategies.
He was addressing the twenty Four Heads of Elections Commissions from 8 countries of the Middle East and Africa have just finished witnessing the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi. The delegates included Chief Election Commissioners/ Commissioners from South Sudan, Jordan, Gambia and Guinea Bissau and senior representatives from Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria and Senegal.
In view of the great interest shown by delegates in the use of technology, and Electronic Voting Systems in particular, he broached the idea of a International Technology Workshop, which could bring together some European countries which have experimented with different types of Electronic Voting systems and Asian/African countries who are interested in learning about the use of technology in elections. He also reiterated ECI’s readiness to share its six-decades of experience and skills in election management with desirous countries of the South, particularly through capacity-building programmes at IIIDEM.
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