In This Issue

2007 offered IFES a remarkable opportunity to celebrate our role in promoting democracy over the last 20 years. We are proud to be one of the international organizations that helped support millions of citizens in their struggle toward more democratic societies over the last two decades, with a record 120 democracies now in existence.… read more »

Kenya's Election Commission is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections on December 27. Some 14 million Kenyans are eligible to cast ballots in the country's fourth national elections since the one-party system officially ended in 1991.… read more »

Thousands of young Kosovo citizens armed only with cell phones took part in a landmark observation project organized by IFES during elections November 17.… read more »

In November, IFES accompanied a Puerto Rican delegation from the State Elections Commission to observe a referenda and a special election in Sarasota County, Florida, where officials unveiled a new voting machine designed to provide access for citizens with physical impairment.… read more »