pollS MANAGEMENT
South Africa’s recently concluded national and provincial elections have shone the spotlight on the role of technology in electoral and democratic processes. This was the first national election in which the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) deployed digital devices, known as the voter management devices (VMD), across over 23 000 voting districts.
VMDs were first deployed during the 2021 local government elections to replace the so-called zip zip machines. They were used to capture voters’ information, including their residential addresses, update the data of
