Parliamentary Elections 2005
Venezuela

Scope

During the 2005 parliamentary elections, Smartmatic deployed 22.150 SAES3000 voting machines for 22 States and 5.180 SAES3300 machines for Miranda State and the Capital District. 100% of the SAES units placed in the 9.235 automated voting centers were installed in record time and worked perfectly since the beginning of the voting day.

The following people worked during this electoral event: 11.404 Voting Machine Operators (OMV after their initials in spanish), together with 1.503 contingency OMVs; 84 Collection Operators in 42 Collection Centers throughout the country (which were established for the collection of the removable memory cards of those voting centers not technically enabled to transmit the data); 1.722 support technicians (TS) nationwide, plus 10% for contigency purposes, totaling 1.857 TS. Also, 89 PCs were installed in 24 Regional Assemblies for the manual inputting of voting registries and for the tallying and awarding processes.

The average time to vote in the Parliamentary Elections using SAES technology was 90 seconds, including the 4 seconds it takes the machine to print the voting voucher. 184 members of the parliament were elected, 167 of which were deputies elected directly for the National Assembly (97 nominal, 65 list, 3 indigenous, 2 per the excedent of the average of inhabitants in each electoral circumscrpiton), 12 deputies for the Latin American Parliament and 5 for the Andean Parlament.