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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB

2. Website Address 8. Voting Process
www.tce.gob.ec At the polling station, a voter gets ballot paper(s)
www.cne.gob.ec on which s/he has to mark the box according to
her/his choice of candidate and then drop the
3. Nature of EMB ballot(s) in a ballot box.
Independent
In its 2004 local elections, Ecuador used
4. No. of Members in EMB electronic voting machines. Of the three areas
5 where three different technologies were piloted,
one offered voter-verifiable paper audit trail. In
5. Terms of office
6 years that, voters could verify their votes through paper
receipts and the technology offered one physical
6. EMB Members selected by and two electronic records for every phase of the
Council of Civic Participation and Social Control process
7. Chairperson’s Appointing Authority (C) ELECTION CALENDAR
EMB
1. Last Election Dates
8. Names of Elections conducted by EMB 19 February 2017
Presidential elections
2. Future Election Date
9. Parliamentary elections February 2021

(B) ELECTORAL PROCESS 3. Compulsory Voting
Compulsory for citizens between 18 and 65 years
1. Total Population as on old; non-compulsory for citizens aged 16–18,
17.1 Million (Feb. 2019) illiterate people, and those older than 65

2. Registered Electors as on
13 Million (June 2018)

3. Method of voter registration
Citizens turning 18 are automatically included in
the voter register. Their data is drawn from the
civil registry

4. Name of the Document viz Electoral Photo
Identity Card
An identity or citizenship card or passport is
required to vote.
5. Voter turnout in last National Elections: Total,
Percentage
72.98%

6. Voting Method
Manual marking of Ballots; Electronic voting
piloted in 2004

7. Audit Trail
Piloted in 2004

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