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Zoran DOKOVIC,
Migration/Freedom of Movement Adviser, OSCE/ODIHR
Information technologies in voter registration
In many of 56 OSCE participating States, voter registers are linked to or produced
from the population register and hence the quality of the latter directly affects
the exercise of universal and equal suffrage. These states use data from the population
register to compile voter lists, to contact voters, and to plan the location
of polling facilities. The voter list delivered to the election authorities is often
a standard set of data that can be extracted from the population register. The
OSCE ODIHR, as the leading agency in Europe in the field of election observation,
recommends in those OSCE participating States that practice population registration
and where the system keeps up-to-date information, to use population
register data for creation of voter lists.
Aiming to consolidate the OSCE’s expertise acquired so far in the area of population
and voter registration and to provide more effective support for field operations,
the ODIHR has developed and published in September 2009 its Guidelines
on Population Registration. In assisting participating States to build sustainable,
accurate and transparent voter registration systems, the ODIHR supports participating
States in modernizing and reforming population registration in a manner
that is in conformity with international standards.
In its Guidelines on Population Registration, the ODIHR, among other issues,
addresses the use of information technology in the registration process. Without
engaging into elaborating particular information technology solutions, the guidelines
highlights those decisions that need to be taken in order to provide for