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El Salvador

Year	Election type	Voting method	First year	Comments
2024	Legislative Presidential	e-voting Personal	2014	Electoral reforms prior to the the 2024 Elections introduced out-of-country voting for the legislative elections, and also voters abroad were allowed to vote remotely using the internet as well as electronic voting in polling stations abroad.
2013	Presidential	Postal	2014	The law allowing external voting has been enacted in early 2013, allowing voting from abroad for presidential elections in 2014. For the Presidential Elections of 2019, in total 5,948 citizens were registered from abroad, out of 348,305 Salvadoran people living abroad. (Data has been updated in January 2022)
2012	No external voting	No external voting	Not applicable	Although some proposals have been submitted and discussed by the Congress in the last few years, none has been passed so far (research was conducted in 2012).
2007	No external voting	No external voting	Not applicable	International IDEA's initial research on the topic was conducted for the publication of Voting from Abroad: The International IDEA Handbook 2007.

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