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Adecco Italia is showcasing its expertise in project management and recruiting through its work with a US technology-services provider that helped develop the electronic polling process for Italy’s 2006 elections.

The client invited Adecco Italia to join a bid to develop a pilot electronic polling system for one-fifth of the national voting base for the political election in April last year. This was the third such experiment since the technology had been tested in the regional elections of 2004 and the European Parliament election in 2005.

The pilot polling system worked in parallel with the official process and did not provide official results. The system enables operators to produce a report once the poll has closed. These reports were compared and matched with the results gleaned from the traditional manually counted process. The Ministry of Internal Affairs then published the results online.

The electronic poll, which was deemed a success and will be rolled out across the country at the next election, allows results to be divulged immediately to the public. It simplifies the entire polling process, offering greater integrity and security while reducing the time spent counting votes.

To implement the pilot system, Adecco Italia recruited and trained 20,000 IT operators for the regions of Lazio, Liguria, Puglia and Sardinia in just six weeks. “This is a landmark change in technical innovation for the voting process in Italy,” says Alessandro Cei, business line director of Adecco Italia. “Adecco’s ability to provide a large number of talented IT professionals in such a short period of time ensured it worked without a hitch.”

Adecco Italia serviced more than 4,000 section coordinators overseeing 11,395 operators and 4,332 back-up operators. Lazio, the most populated region, required more than 7,700 workers.