election monitoring

Commentary: 2019 Elections to be collated, transmitted electronically - INEC - Premium Times Nigeria

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Commentary: 2019 Elections to be collated, transmitted electronically - INEC - Premium Times Nigeria

Commentary on a Premium Times report about INEC's intention to transmit election results electronically.

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PollwatchNG: Real-time Monitoring of Elections in Nigeria

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PollwatchNG: Real-time Monitoring of Elections in Nigeria

Elections in Nigeria are chaotic and fraught with numerous problems like late arrival of election materials, ballot box snatching, rigging and violence. We developed the Pollwatch project to support the election monitoring role of the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER).

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Quickcount 2007: Mobile SMS Messaging to Prevent Election Rigging in Nigeria

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Quickcount 2007: Mobile SMS Messaging to Prevent Election Rigging in Nigeria

For the 2007 elections, I partnered with a group of Filipino developers, to build an sms-based election monitoring system (which we called QuickCount 2007). This automated system was able to receive and process sms reports including ballot count results from 18,000 Action Congress polling agents at 9,000 polling units all over the state.

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