ACEEEO Newsletter - January 2022

Every year, on the first Thursday of February we celebrate our most important democratic institution – elections. Global Elections Day (GED) was initiated by the GEO/ACEEEO conference in 2005, and we are proud that in the past decades it evolved into a tradition, a real celebration organized in democracies throughout the ACEEEO region by EMBs and other electoral stakeholders.

This year, however, we plan to take a step further. It is our aim to make GED truly global, by involving election officials from all around the world. To this end, the GED Summit 2022 is organized by the ACEEEO on 3 February.

The goal of the summit is:

• to celebrate elections, a cornerstone of democracy;
• to acknowledge election officials, working relentlessly as guards of the democracy;
• to demonstrate the unity of the election officials from all over the globe;
• to show the diversity of elections;
• to support the exchange of best practices among the election management bodies; and
• to provide guidance to the voters.

The event will take place online, with the participation of EMBs and international organizations and other electoral stakeholders from all around the globe. Each speaker will be allotted a maximum of 3-4 minutes to share ideas.

During the intervention you may:

• address a message to the election community, underlining your commitment to values related to elections;
• present a best practice from your election system;
• address a challenge you face in your country; or
• to make any other short statement related to elections.

Proposed schedule:

If you wish to participate either as a speaker or as audience, please send an e-mail to aceeeo@aceeeo.org, by 24 January.

In addition to joining the Global Elections Day Summit 2022, we encourage all our Members and Partners to celebrate also in a traditional way by organizing seminars and conferences for young voters, the media and other key stakeholders in their respective countries. The Global Elections Day is an excellent opportunity to reach out to the voters and present them achievements in organization of elections, as well as to initiate discussion about the improvement of the processes. The ACEEEO Secretariat is looking forward to receiving short reports and photos about the activities organized by EMBs. For further reference please visit the dedicated page at https://aceeeo.org/en/projects/global-elections-day.