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Location Year of election Election type Recommendation # in final report Type of recommendation Thematic area Secondary thematic area Type of change required Status of implementation Comment
United States of America 2018 LEOM Parliamentary elections
The Election Assistance Commission’s mandate on certification of voting machines could be broadened to include the authority to decertify voting technologies based on new and emerging cyber threats. The Commission’s mandate on certification should be extended to online and offline voter registration systems, electronic poll books, and results transmission systems.
Recommendation # in final report: 34
Type of recommendation: Other
Thematic area: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Type of change required: Sub-legal
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: New Voting Technologies
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United States of America 2018 LEOM Parliamentary elections
Additional measures could be taken by the election administration to avoid queues, including through better planning and queue management, installation of additional voting equipment in polling stations, or increasing the number of the polling stations in densely populated areas.
Recommendation # in final report: 35
Type of recommendation: Other
Thematic area: Election Day
Type of change required: Practice
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: Election Day
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United States of America 2018 LEOM Parliamentary elections
To enhance transparency, jurisdictions should consider promptly publishing results by polling station. When reporting preliminary results, election officials should also include available information on how many provisional and absentee ballots have yet to be processed. State authorities should publish preliminary and final election results
Recommendation # in final report: 36
Type of recommendation: Other
Thematic area: Election Day
Type of change required: Practice
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: Election Day
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United States of America 2020 LEOM Presidential and Parliamentary
In order to further increase cyber security capacity at state and lower levels, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other relevant cyber security organizations should continue expanding their services and training efforts to encompass all election jurisdictions.
Recommendation # in final report: 19
Type of recommendation: Other
Thematic area: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Secondary thematic area: Election Administration
Type of change required: Practice
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: Cyber Security
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United States of America 2020 LEOM Presidential and Parliamentary
The Hatch Act should be uniformly and consistently applied across all levels of government, including senior-level administration officials and political appointees.
Recommendation # in final report: 24
Type of recommendation: Other
Thematic area: Campaign Finance
Type of change required: Sub-legal
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: Election Campaign
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United States of America 2020 LEOM Presidential and Parliamentary
To help address security and reliability concerns of ageing equipment, the election jurisdictions should be mandated to review and periodically upgrade or replace existing outdated voting technology solutions. Such equipment should have a voter-verified paper audit trail to support methods to verify the machine-based vote counts.
Recommendation # in final report: 32
Type of recommendation: Other
Thematic area: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Type of change required: Practice
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: Voting Technologies
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United States of America 2020 LEOM Presidential and Parliamentary
In order to enhance transparency and voter confidence, jurisdictions should consider the use of ballots in which all elements indicating voter’s choices are human readable.
Recommendation # in final report: 34
Type of recommendation: Other
Thematic area: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Secondary thematic area: Election Administration
Type of change required: Practice
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: Voting Technologies
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United States of America 2020 LEOM Presidential and Parliamentary
All jurisdictions relying on technology for voting, counting of votes and tabulation of results should mandate some form of a post-election audit as a results verification method.
Recommendation # in final report: 37
Type of recommendation: Other
Thematic area: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Type of change required: Legal
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: Voting Technologies
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United States of America 2022 LEOM Parliamentary elections
Continued efforts should be made to improve accessibility of the voting process for persons with disabilities and to ensure that the necessary preconditions are in place for independent voting.
Recommendation # in final report: 30
Thematic area: Participation of Persons with Disabilities
Type of change required: Practice
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2024
Final report heading: Election Day
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United States of America 2016 EOM Presidential and Parliamentary
Legislation should be in place to guarantee the secrecy of the vote for in-person voting, including provisional and absentee voting.
Recommendation # in final report: 6
Type of recommendation: Priority
Thematic area: Legal Framework
Secondary thematic area: Election Day
Type of change required: Legal
Status of implementation: Mostly
Year of assessment: 2020
Final report heading: Election Day
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