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Citizen-Technology for Election Monitoring

Making Equal Rights RealIHSP RESEARCH TO POLICY CONFERENCE

OMNI Mont-Royal Hotel, MontrealMay 1, 2010


Making Rights

• Right to vote• Right to contest elections and to be

elected• Right to seek, receive and impart

information about govt. practices• Advance pluralistic, fair, and open

political processes• Preserve elections as a basis for non-

violent competition for governing


Making Equal Rights

• Advance equality of the vote and nondescrimination• Particular attention to:–Malapportionment–Access to run seek office–Barrier to participation for women,

the disabled and ethnic and religious minorities


Making Equal Rights Real

• Goal to evaluate and improve the process• Entire electoral calendar• Using a variety of increasingly

sophisticated methodologies and tactics


data-focused election observation


Impressionistic: Coordinators indicated major problems with missing materials around the country.

Anecdotal: We documented 42 cases of polling stations running out of materials. These reports largely came from urban areas where the opposition is typically stronger.

Data-focused: Based on comprehensive reports, from a random sample of 1070 polling stations, fewer than 2% of polling stations ran out a materials nationally, and these appear to be evenly distributed between stations that voted for government and those that voted for opposition.


telling the story


new media


data visualization

open data


empowering and engaging


hotlines


crowdsourcing


where next?

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