CONFERENCES/EVENTS

Democracy is government by citizens, and elections are the tool which is used across the democratic world to ensure that citizens are in control of their political system. This means that citizens should be at the heart of any election, and that the absolute priority of any election process and management should be to ensure that elections are organised in such a way as to optimise the engagement, participation, satisfaction, trust, and perceived legitimacy of citizens.
Successful management of elections is crucial to a valid outcome of the democratic process. And the effective management of Information about the processes is also critical. Truly democratic elections often stand and fall with the quality of the electoral management in term of process and information. There is no one size fits all approach for successful electoral process and information management.
However, election management is mainly about handling the organisation, logistics and infrastructure of elections. Breaking it down, election process and information management is predominantly tackling the challenge of voter registration, guaranteeing a transparent and secure electoral process, carrying out a flawless authentication of voters, providing the necessary facilities, instruments and materials for elections and securing a faultless and adequate counting of the votes and presentation of results.