Argentina: A verifiable e-Voting solution yields speedy results in Cordoba

On July 5th 2015, citizens from the province of Cordoba headed to the polls to elect executive and legislative authorities.

In the cities of La Falda and Marcos Juarez, 104 SAES-3377 voting machines were deployed to receive 34,784 eligible voters. This was Argentina’s first experience with a fully-verifiable electronic voting solution.

Thanks to Smartmatic’s technology, authorities were able to publish official results only 45 minutes after voting ended, a record.

Besides providing electronic voting machines, Smartmatic guaranteed the timely consolidation, transmission and aggregation of results.

Smartmatic was also responsible for supplying a preliminary results solution to process count reports from the polling centres were voting was done manually – 2,659,058 eligible voters.