Episode 7: Delivering electoral justice with election technology

For decades, many have hoped that technology would revolutionize how elections are conducted. Replacing traditional paper-based approaches could offer a dramatic improvement in voter identification, faster and easier voting and results, higher accuracy, heightened integrity and public trust, and lower cost. However, electoral technologies have sometimes proven vulnerable to failure and security breaches, distrust by contestants and voters, inflated costs, and legal challenges. This podcast features a panel which explores how electoral technology should be handled with respect to electoral justice. Panelists (justices and senior election/legal experts) will discuss common challenges in litigating disputes related to election technology, in particular from the recent Kenya (2022 General Elections), U.S., Brazil (2022) and Nigeria elections (2023 February), present lessons learned from recent cases, and emerging best practices and challenges.

Introduced by Toby James.  Chaired by Chad Vickery, IFES Vice President of Global Strategy and Technical Leadership. Panelists: 

• Justice Yargata Nimpar (Nigeria Court of Appeal)

• Judge Tunheim (U.S. District Court of Minnesota)

• Justice Daniel Musinga (Kenya Court of Appeal and Vice President of Judicial Council on Elections)

• Ronan McDermott (Global Sr. election expert)

• Typhaine Roblot (IFES Sr. Legal and Justice Advisor)