The Guardian Council has agreed to hold electronic elections in 8,000 polling stations.
According to Iran digital economy annotation, Hadi Tahan Nazif, the spokesman of this council, announced in his press conference today that he agreed with the proposal of the Ministry of Interior to hold electronic elections in some areas.
According to the Ministry of Interior, the 2024 parliamentary elections will be held in 65,000 branches, and according to the law, the voting processes in about 8,000 branches must be done electronically.
The responsibility of the Ministry of Interior is according to the law that the parliamentarians approved in June this year. According to this law, the Ministry of Interior has been obliged to conduct the voting and counting processes in the first election after the approval of the amendment to the election law in at least one-eighth of the constituencies with multiple seats.
Also, the Ministry of Interior should develop electronic processes in the next election periods, taking into account the social, economic, political, and security conditions and with the approval of the Guardian Council.
When was electronic election introduced?
For the first time during Hashemi Rafsanjani’s government and for the election of his second government in 1972, it was decided to use a fax machine to count votes, but it was not implemented.
In Mohammad Khatami’s government, the government used electronic vote counting in the city council elections in 1977. This experience was the first successful use of electronic processes in elections.
After that, in the elections of the 6th Parliament in 1978, the government wanted to hold the elections of the 6th Parliament electronically, but the Guardian Council did not agree to this two days before the elections, even though all arrangements had been made.
Then the Guardian Council, once again and this time during the presidential election of the 8th government in 1980, also opposed this issue because it was not sure of the functioning of the vote counting software.
In 2006, the Guardian Council agreed that some stages of parliamentary elections were held electronically in only 13 cities, and in 2008, the Election Supervisory Council did not approve the software that was designed.
In 2018, however, Tehran city council elections, which were conducted by the municipality, were held completely electronically and became the first successful experience of holding completely electronic elections in Iran.
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