K-Mobile Voting Exported to Kyrgyzstan... Asia's First Adoption in Public Elections

- Korea Electronic Voting Co., Ltd. Provides Mobile Voting Service for Kyrgyzstan National Election
- Pilot Introduced in Local Council Elections, Achieving Stable Service and High Voter Turnout

[Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan Online Voting Monitoring Status]

Kevoting technology from Korea Electronic Voting Co., Ltd. (CEO Jaeyoung Park), the number one electronic voting company in Korea, has been recognized for its technological excellence by being adopted for an overseas national public election, the first among domestic online voting service companies.

On the 9th, Korea Electronic Voting announced on the 12th that its mobile election platform service was adopted for the local council member election in Kyrgyzstan, and it received a plaque of appreciation from the Kyrgyz government for successfully conducting the election with a high turnout rate of 82.52% and stable service in the pilot election held in the Bakent region.

According to Korea Electronic Voting, the Bakent region faced difficulties conducting elections using traditional methods due to regional conflicts. After review by the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission, an online voting method without visiting polling stations was considered. The election was conducted by entering identity information online and verifying identity through Face ID authentication using Korea Electronic Voting’s service.

Nurjan Shayldabekova, Chairperson of the Kyrgyz Central Election Commission, stated, “During the preparation for online voting, we received and reviewed proposals from various global electronic voting companies, but we adopted Korea Electronic Voting due to Korea’s strong national brand recognition, stability, reliability, and operational know-how. In particular, to create a transparent system, we introduced Korea Electronic Voting’s voter self-verification technology and posted it on the website so that anyone can directly verify the vote, increasing trust. Despite the short preparation period, we perfectly prepared and achieved an unprecedented remarkable turnout rate of 82.52%.”

The Kyrgyz government also stated, “Voters who could not visit polling stations due to local issues were able to participate safely and conveniently from remote locations, and direct democracy was continuously realized through online voting.” The Central Election Commission added that President Sadyr Japarov personally participated in the preliminary test, showing great interest in the newly introduced online voting and requested thorough preparation.

The Kyrgyz government evaluated that through the introduction of this online voting system, it has laid the foundation to lead the most advanced and transparent election system among Central Asian countries by increasing voter participation via mobile phones as an alternative to declining turnout rates and providing online voting services for many overseas nationals who are abroad for reasons such as employment. They also expressed their intention to actively adopt the system in the upcoming election scheduled for October this year and future elections.

Jaeyoung Park, CEO of Korea Electronic Voting, said, “Korea Electronic Voting successfully completed the Kyrgyzstan election through years of operational know-how and core technology of online voting, and as a result, many neighboring countries are showing interest. Taking this opportunity, we will expand our business not only domestically but globally and continue to contribute to the development of electronic voting.”

Korea Electronic Voting, a subsidiary of the Dasan Group, provides online voting for domestic party elections (party leader, local election primaries), association president elections, labor union chairman elections, public institution labor director elections, and elections for representatives of apartment complexes and resident representative chairpersons. It serves 24,755 institutions domestically with a cumulative voter count of 22,479,667, proving its reliability through numerous references as a specialized electronic voting company.

Korea Electronic Voting’s 'Kevoting' is an online voting system that meets all seven electronic voting guidelines presented by Korea’s Central Election Commission. It possesses and directly provides core electronic voting technologies such as key splitting, bit delegation, blind signatures, and zero-knowledge proofs.

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