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Common Election Monitoring Categories

  • Erik

    Chief Doesalotofstuff
    Joined: Jan '09
    Posts: 65

    Ushahidi has been used to help monitor elections in 4 different countries so far (India, Mexico, Afghanistan and Lebanon). Here are the categories that they set. Someone here might find this list helpful.

    India (http://votereport.in):

    • All CategoriesuForged Vote (FORG)
    • Violence (VIOL)
    • Voter Bribing (BRIB)
    • Voting Machine Problems (EVOM)
    • Other Irregularities (OTHR)
    • Inflammatory Speech (HATE)
    • Election Commission Interventions (ECIN)
    • Voter Name Missing (MISS)
    • What Went Well (WELL)

    Mexico (http://www.cuidemoselvoto.org):

    • Todas las Categorías
    • Alteración de las urnas
    • Padrón Incompleto
    • Violación del voto secreto
    • Falsificación de resultados
    • Campañas en casilla
    • Violencia
    • Credenciales falsas
    • Retención de credenciales
    • Compra de votos
    • Funcionarios irregulares
    • Coacción sindical
    • Otras irregularidades
    • Coacción con programas sociales

    Mexico (In English):

    • All Categories
    • Alteration of the polls
    • Incomplete census
    • Violation of the secret ballot
    • Falsification of results
    • Campaigns in box
    • Violence
    • False Credentials
    • Retention of Credentials
    • Vote buying
    • Officials irregular
    • Union coercion
    • Other irregularities
    • Coercion with social programs

    Afghanistan (http://aliveinafghanistan.org):

    • All Categories
    • Vote Tampering: Vote buying, ballot box stuffing, fake IDs
    • Disturbances: Violence, intimidation, harassment, roadblocks
    • Defamation: Inflammatory speech, posters, billboards defaced
    • Voting Access: Station closed, voting suspended, list altered
    • Illegal Campaigning: in public places, polling booths, religious places
    • What went well
    • Campaign Events
    • Citizens Speak
    • Vote count
    • Taliban
    • Reconstruction
    • Disaster

    Lebanon (http://sharek961.org):

    • All Categories
    • Voting Access: Station closed, voting suspended, list altered
    • Vote Tampering: Vote buying, ballot box stuffing, fake IDs
    • Defamation: inflammatory speech, posters, billboards defaced
    • Disturbances: violence, intimidation, harassment, roadblocks
    • Illegal campaigning: in public places, religious places, polling center
    • What went well
    • Accredited Observers
    • International Media
    • Local Media
    • Civil groups
    • UNVERIFIED Citizen Reports
    • LADE
    • Other/Miscellaneous: Anything else

    Posted 2 years ago #

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