Crowdsourcing Accountability in a Nigerian Election

Bailard, Catie Snow; Livingston, Steven

doi:10.1080/19331681.2014.947056

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“…These authors found that a successful collective action initiative is possible through crowdsourcing election observation through citizen-generated reports based on modern digital technologies. Such success is dependent upon (a) community mobilization and (b) responsive state institutions including the election management bodies (EMBs) (Bailard and Livingstone, 2014). In future, besides deepening the value of the parallel vote tabulation, citizen election observation has to invest heavily in crowdsourcing and crowdmapping to complement traditional election observation methodologies.…”

Section: The Crisis Of International Election Observation: the Woundmentioning

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Pouring Salt into the Wound: The Crisis of International Election Observation and COVID-19 in Africa

Matlosa

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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International election observation in Africa is in crisis. This crisis manifests in various ways, including lowering of standards from democracy promotion to ‘peaceocracy’; strategic interest bias; progress bias; low-tech methodologies; dominance over citizen observer groups; and contradiction of verdicts of election observation missions with court judgments. The crisis characterizes the wound of international election observation. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic found a pre-existing unhealthy condition of international election observation, thereby pouring salt into the wound. It accentuated the existential crisis of international election observation. Observation has to be recalibrated during and after the pandemic. Existing challenges facing international election observation have to be redressed. International election observation has to adapt to the new condition marked by COVID-19. This adaptation should include development and implementation of guidelines on election observation during COVID-19. In the long run, sustainability of election observation rests in the institutional strengthening of citizen-based observer groups.

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Section: The Crisis Of International Election Observation: the Woundmentioning

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Pouring Salt into the Wound: The Crisis of International Election Observation and COVID-19 in Africa

Matlosa

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…Ushahidi is a good example of the new tools that have become available. It is an opensource crowdsourcing platforms that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after 2008 post-election violence (Bailard and Livingston, 2014). It has been widely used to monitor elections in different countries, e.g.…”

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“…In longstanding democracies like the United States, there may be fewer concerns about violence at the polls, but nonetheless, security issues regarding electoral fraud have undoubtedly increased in recent years (Norris, Garnett, and Grömping 2017). Thus, this area should receive more attention on state election websites, particularly as it pertains to allowing citizens to be active in monitoring security concerns at the polls, as is done with the ''crowd-sourcing'' model of election observation in some other countries (Bader 2013;Bailard and Livingston 2014;Gromping 2017aGromping , 2017b. Turning to their social media presence (Figure 2), 82% of states had Facebook pages and 88% of states had Twitter handles.…”

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Behind the Screens: E-Government in American State Election Administration

Garnett

2020

Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy

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This article considers election administration e-government in the United States. It asks: How robust is American states' usage of Internet-based platforms for electoral information dissemination and communication with voters? It conducts a content analysis of state election websites according to the activities common to all electoral management bodies, presents a summary of the use of social media by state election officials, collects data on the means of communication available to voters, and conducts a small-scale test of e-mail responsiveness. It concludes that the United States performs well in terms of providing information about registration and election results. The greatest area for improvement is providing information necessary for full transparency. Scholars and practitioners will benefit from using the framework developed in this article to measure and compare changes in election e-government over time, and to consider the United States within a broader international context.

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Crowdsourcing Accountability in a Nigerian Election

Cited by 30 publications

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Pouring Salt into the Wound: The Crisis of International Election Observation and COVID-19 in Africa

Pouring Salt into the Wound: The Crisis of International Election Observation and COVID-19 in Africa

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