Our history

We help citizens in 11 democratic countries with advanced technology, from election administration to voter authentication to online voting - all in less than 12 months.

CGI and Smartmatic work with the Greater London Authority (GLA) to successfully deliver e-counting for approximately 7.9 million hand-marked paper ballots.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Smartmatic expands its risk-mitigation portfolio with PPE, products and strategies to ensure safe in-person voting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our system provides a voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) in Chicago, the third largest jurisdiction in the US.

We set up 500,000 voting machines, hire and train support staff for 400,000 vote centers, and configure and deploy 1,320 BGAN Sabre satellite terminals to transmit results in Brazil.

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

Following a devastating earthquake, we send people and equipment to Haiti to register citizens, which helps to quickly put aid where it is most needed.

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

We provide a pioneering voting solution for Mindanao province that increases voter participation and delivers election results in record time. It is the first automated election in the Philippines.

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

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

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

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.

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

First 20 utility patents issued for technologies developed in-house will form the basis for almost all of the company's future election devices and tools.

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