Sri Lanka's Real Victory Will Be Full Integration

June 16, 2009

My visit to Sri Lanka a few weeks ago was very different to my past visits. I have traveled to Sri Lanka for meetings with the Department of Elections several times over the past three years. IFES has been implementing a program to computerize the voter registry in Sri Lanka since 2005. But this time was different

Voter Registration, Voting Technology, Elections, Post-conflict

After the Tsunami:
Sri Lanka Modernizes its Voter Registry

March 01, 2007

After 2004’s devastating tsunami destroyed large numbers of Sri Lanka’s electoral records, IFES began working with the country’s Department of Elections to computerize its voter registry.

Elections

Sri Lanka Launches Computerized Voter Registry

February 09, 2007

Washington, DC – FEBRUARY 8, 2007 – Sri Lanka launched the country’s first computerized voter registry today, the result of a two-year project with IFES that began after the 2004 tsunami destroyed paper voter records in Galle. The tsunami showed how a natural disaster could potentially disenfranchise thousands of voters and consequently shake voters’ confidence in their democratic institutions.

A Year Later: Sri Lanka after the Tsunami

December 30, 2005

Sri Lanka was completely unprepared for the scale of impact produced by the tsunami of December 26, 2004. This was the worst natural disaster to hit the country in hundreds of years

The International IDEA Handbook of Electoral System Design

January 01, 2002

This handbook describes the attributes of various electoral systems and explores their advantages and disadvantages.

Electoral Systems