PDAs will be distributed across both autonomous communities to provide 100% coverage to the data transmissions from the polling places
Indra, the premier IT company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America, has been commissioned once again by the Regional Government of Andalusia and the Government of the Principality of Asturias the technology deployment for the provisional scrutiny of the regional elections to be held on March 25th. Around 6, 400, 000 Andalusians, the country's highest census; and nearly 1 million Asturians are expected to vote.
The technology multinational will employ once again the PDA technology to transmit the electoral data from the polling places to the information processing centre. Regarding Andalusia, over 5,100 devices will be deployed in addition to 700 in Asturias. In both cases, the devices will provide coverage to the 100% of voters. PDAs expedite the scrutiny, increase the quality of the data to be transmitted as they incorporate additional controls at the polling places, eliminates repetitive tasks and automates information transmission.
Besides this, Indra will create an elections portal for each event (www.eleccionesparlamentoandalucia2012.es and www.elecciones2012.asturias.es ) to answer possible doubts about the elections: vote by email, CERA vote, accessible vote, rules and legislation or information about the procedures for citizens to perform their duties as polling station officers or administration representatives, among others.
Citizens will also be able to access the provisional results website on election day through the above-mentioned electoral portals.
Indra has been awarded once more the contract for the scrutiny of the Andalusian elections, an electoral process which the company has delivered since 1982.
On the other hand, the IT company also provided technological support to the Asturian elections in 2011.
Leadership in electoral processes
Indra has participated in more than 350 successful electoral processes worldwide involving more than 3.000 million voters and has been at the forefront in the use of new technologies for example: the Electronic Vote, e-Counting, Internet Voting; solutions and services for citizen participation like the iPARTICIPA platform; and technological solutions applied to electoral management such as PDAs or the equipment of polling stations with tools to facilitate and simplify procedures (Electronically Managed Polling Station, MAE)
During the last years, Indra has been involved in the election processes in countries such as UK, Norway, France, Slovenia, Portugal, Italy, United States, Argentina, and Angola among others, offering all kinds of services and electoral solutions and implementing innovative Electronic vote systems. Besides this, the company delivered the scrutiny and the publication of results of the local elections in Spain, held in May 22nd last year along with most of the regional elections on the same day. In addition to this, Indra carried out the provisional scrutiny of the General elections on November 20th, 2011.
In 2011 in Argentina Indra undertook the scrutiny of the primary elections for Presidency, deputies and senators in August, then the national elections in October, the local elections of the city and province of Buenos Aires, and was partially involved in the local elections of Colombia and Oslo (Norway) where its “e-counting” system was employed.
Indra
Indra is the premier Information Technology company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked as the second European company in its sector according to investment in R&D with over € 500 M during the last three years. In 2011 revenues reached € 2,688 M and the international market already accounts for a 50%. The company employs more than 36,000 professionals and has clients in more than 110 countries.
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