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Inexpensive mobile phones and online maps are bringing new levels of transparency to elections across the continent...

Pat Merloe, director of electoral programs at the Washington-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), described such efforts as an "advance in transparency in Africa and around the world". But he called attention to the limitations of web-based efforts to monitor elections.

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