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In 2006, Flanders organised the local and provincial elections for the first time. People voted electronically in half of the boroughs. This was a major challenge as it is impossible to re-do an election somewhere if things go wrong. The ICT infrastructure has to work very quickly and precisely in order to register and count electronic votes as there is lots of data to be handled in a very short amount of time. The Flemish Government’s ICT partner, EDS Telindus, handled the whole IT processing from start to fi nish. The organisation went very smoothly. As soon as the polling stations closed, the fi rst results came in.