Our history

Bulgaria tests voting automation

In a step toward modernizing its elections, Bulgaria deploys 3,000 electronic voting machines as a pilot to a potential nationwide rollout.

New online voting record in Estonia

Online participation reached 44,4% of all votes cast in Estonia’s Parliamentary elections, an increase of 40% over the same elections in 2015.

Modernizing elections in Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County selects Smartmatic to help election authorities manufacture and implement the County’s new system for 2020.

Smartmatic on election integrity council

Smartmatic joins the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Sector Coordinating Council for the Election Infrastructure Subsector.

Italy's first fully automated election

Authorities rely on Smartmatic for technology and services to deploy 24,700 touchscreen voting machines across Lombardy to serve 7.8 million voters.

Voter registration in Sierra Leone

Our biometric technology helps authorities in Sierra Leone to register voters across the entire country ahead of the 2018 national elections.

Voters praise Internet voting in Utah

In Utah’s Republican primary, 80% of voters who registered online cast votes online. 94% describe the experience as good. 97% would prefer voting online in the next election.

End-to-end electronic voting in Kyrgyzstan

We deploy biometric authentication and electronic voting for student senate elections at the American University of Central Asia in Bishtek, Kyrgyzstan.

Sierra Leone streamlines results transmission

Our technology enables election authorities in remote areas in Sierra Leone to streamline election result transmission and certify the results via biometrics.

Three Mexican states modernize elections

Smartmatic's third election in Mexico includes streamlining preliminary results for an election in Chiapas. We helped Campeche and Tabasco earlier in the year.

Smartmatic earns two ISO certifications

Smartmatic earns ISO 9001 Quality Management System and ISO 14001 Environmental Management System certifications, reflecting our commitment to improvement.

Improving public safety in the Philippines

Smartmatic technology powers Bataan's emergency command center for the Metro Development Authority and Provincial Disaster Management Council.

Achieving social impact through technology

CEO Antonio Mugica and Chairman Lord Mark Malloch-Brown launch SGO to help governments improve elections, efficiency, pollution control, and identity management.

Modernising UK elections

The ePen, a digital pen to improve the speed, accuracy and integrity of traditional ballot-counting processes, is used for the first time in a local UK election.

Belgians vote in three elections on one day

Belgium conducts the first European Union Parliamentary election ever to use a voter verified e-voting solution, with our technology.

Haiti updates its civil registry system

By creating a better database, we help Haiti provide its citizens with better services in the years following the devastating earthquake of 2010.

Smartmatic technology is used in the USA

The system is used in Chicago, the third largest jurisdiction in the US. It is secure and accessible, and provides a voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT).

Belgium chooses us to design and manufacture its election hardware and software for the next 15 years

We deploy the first batch of 20,000 machines and in October, Belgium has a successful automated election – our first in Europe.

A smarter transport system for Cartagena

We win an 18-year contract to implement and operate an automated fare-collection and fleet-management system for mass transportation in Cartagena, Colombia.

A new voter register for Zambia

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) chooses Smartmatic for Zambia's biometric voter register. Voter registration increases 40%. Read the case study.

Smartmatic helps Haiti's earthquake recovery

Following a devastating earthquake, we send people and equipment register citizens, which helps put aid where it is most needed in less time.

Mexico expands biometric registration

Biometric registration allows Mexico's government to issue citizens national identity cards. Our rugged, portable kits perform even in very remote areas. Read the case study

Philippines’ first fully automated elections

After a complex bid, we provide a pioneering voting solution for Mindanao province that increases voter participation and delivers election results in record time.

Voters in Curacao’s tests Smartmatic's e-voting

Over 76,000 citizens use auditable Smartmatic technology to vote in the Dutch Antilles' Insular Council elections. As a result, all parties accept the results' validity. 

Validation from people who matter

The Carter Center, founded by Jimmy Carter to advance human rights, and the European Union validate our voting technology as secure, reliable and auditable.

New R&D center opens in Taipei

Smartmatic continues it commitment to be the industry leader in research and development by opening it second R&D facility, this one in Taipei, Taiwan.

World's first automated election with paper trail

Venezuela’s 2004 elections are the first election ever to use a VVPAT – voter-verified paper trail. This feature is now the de facto standard worldwide.

First advanced automation platform launched

Enabling hyper-secure connection between devices, our NEA technology will form the basis of our future election platform.

First 20 utility patent filled in US

Patented technologies developed in-house will form the basis for almost all of the company's future election devices and tools.

Smartnet platform launched

Smartnet is one of the earliest platforms to enable the Internet of Things (IoT), a solution designed to make online protocols highly secure.