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Citizen-Technology for Election
Monitoring
Making Equal Rights Real
IHSP RESEARCH TO POLICY CONFERENCE
OMNI Mont-Royal Hotel, Montreal
May 1, 2010
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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 nonviolent competition for governing
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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
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Making Equal Rights Real
• Goal to evaluate and improve the
process
• Entire electoral calendar
• Using a variety of increasingly
sophisticated methodologies and
tactics
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data-focused election observation
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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.
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telling the story
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new media
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open data
data visualization
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empowering and engaging
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hotlines
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crowdsourcing
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