Smartmatic expands operations in Mexico

The new venture will provide solutions to modernize the Mexican electoral administration, with a broad portfolio of solutions

Mexico, Mexico City -February 20, 2015- Smartmatic, the leading company in election automation, recently confirmed the creation of Smartmatic Elecciones México, a company set to meet the needs of the Mexican states related to the organization of their election processes.

Smartmatic Elecciones México is based on the experience amassed by Smartmatic, a company that has recorded over 2 billion votes, has made over 700 thousand voting machine deployments, and has assisted over 200 million voters in the United States, the Philippines, Belgium, Brazil and Venezuela.

According to Luis Vecchi, Smartmatic’s CEO for Latin America, “with this new undertaking we are making available to Mexico the safest, most transparent and most exact technology in the market, together with all our experience in successfully conducting impeccable elections.”

Smartmatic Elecciones México is confident it will provide solutions to modernize the Mexican election administration, and to this end it is endowed with a broad portfolio of solutions and with the unique possibility to tailor them to the characteristics of the local surroundings. “We are making readily available to the Mexican authorities a portfolio of products and services capable of substantially modernize every single step of an election, from solutions to help create and purge voter registries, to advanced voting instruments which can be used both in person and online, up to modern systems even capable of real-time broadcast of results”, added Vecchi.

During its early stages, the company will service Mexico’s different regions from its headquarters in the Federal District (DF).