Insular Council Election 2007
Curaçao

Scope

Curaçao’s Supreme Electoral Council, together with the political parties and competitors in the electoral process, validated 74,342 registered votes in the Insular Council 2007 election. There were no null votes due to the technology. The project included the deployment of one tallying center, 159 SAES3000 voting machines distributed in 106 voting centers, 21 contingency machines in reserve and one data and results collection station situated in the Electoral Council (Hoofdstembureau”).

In the case of Curaçao’s Insular Council Election, Smartmatic not only provided SAES3000 machines, but the entire technological platform and all the services needed to carry out a safe, auditable and modern election on the island. 

While the voting machines can be connected to the tallying center through a range of communication means (fixed line, wireless and satellite telephony), the Electoral Council requested instead, the set up of a data collection center to receive the “hard copy” ballots. Once more, highly qualified Smartmatic personnel worked together with the Electoral Council’s authorized personnel to guarantee a successful and reliable process, from the test preceding the election to the audits following it, validated by all participants of the democratic process.  

The electors needed an average of less than 30 seconds to exercise their right to vote in an election where 278 candidates from 11 different parties were nominated for 21 seats in the Insular Council. After a first bulletin at 20:55 hours and certified result at 21:17 hours, the awarding process began. Of the SAES machines used, 98.75% of them worked perfectly and collected the 74,342 votes that all the parties involved in the electoral process accepted as definitive results.