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INTERVIEW
Dominion Voting ImageCast Evolution - Dual Display in all this? Did this principle in- ent ways. It is known that
voting booth crease the voting interest? the young generations pre-
Dominion Voting ImageCast Evolution - Voter inserting fer to vote through the In-
ballot Mr. Obradovic: There are ternet, however one should
frequent projects where dif- consider the security chal-
32 May 2016 ferent types of voting should lenges brought by such tech-
be integrated. In Canada for nologies. On the other hand,
ten years we apply a combi- the turnout also depends on
nation of voting at the poll- the political situation in the
ing place by voting through country of voting. Anyway,
the Internet or by phone. In we approach each country
USA there are frequent com- individually, we analyze the
binations of voting by mail, at various options and we offer
the polling places, and lately the best solution. There is no
also through the Internet universal solution that ap-
for the citizens who are not plies for everyone.
in the country at the mo-
ment of voting. In order to For a country such as
achieve greater turnout, the Macedonia it is important to
voting lasts several days. We have experience with coun-
perceived this need of inte- tries that also have certain
gration of different ways of distrust in the electoral pro-
voting at the very beginning cess and where your technol-
of the development so within ogy has been introduced for
our Democratic suit platform the first time. Such are, let’s
everything begins and ends say the examples of Mongo-
in a complex set of applica- lia and the Philippines. How
tions under the title Election did the elections progress
Management System. It is a with your technology in these
matter of applications that countries in terms of the vot-
are used for preparation and ing organizer. What are the
definition of every electoral experiences of your compa-
event, creation of voting lists, ny?
in paper, audio or electronic
form, programming of all Mr. Obradovic: The Philip-
devices from the Imagecast pines and Mongolia are two
series, and then for process- good examples not only in
ing of results, preparation terms of the level of devel-
of various reports, as well as opment of the democratic
“export” of the results for the voting, but also due to the
media in real time. Hence, complexity of geographic-
for example, the TV stations, administrative nature. The
as well as the Internet portals Philippines are a country
can settle the processing of with many voters and quite
the results in real time, and complex and demographic
quite fast after the closing of structure. In the elections
the polling places they can in 2010 we used more than
know the voting results. 85 thousand ImageCast Pre-
cinct voting machines that
When it comes to the vot- processed the voting lists
ing turnout, we must con- with a length of 30 inches
sider that it depends on many (approximately 76 cm). Since
factors. Our task is to provide the Philippines comprise of
the voters to vote in differ-
