Work relating to elections.
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Last Sunday night, Citizen TV's 'Kibaki Succession' segment on its 9pm 'Sunday Live' programme featured not the usual discussion by David Makali and Peter Opondo of the week's events, but instead host Julie Gichuru interviewing the chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Issack Hassan.
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Electoral observance “serves to build the foundations of Latin American democracy” said Organization of American States, OAS, Secretary General Jose Miguel Inuslza during opening remarks at a Roundtable entitled “International Election Observation: Progress and Challenges,” held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
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Meanwhile, much of the public seems disengaged. NDI’s recent pre-election assessment notes the general indifference about the elections from citizens across the political spectrum in Jordan.
Author:
Kenya Inter-Party Youth Forum (IPYF) and Sierra Leone All Political Party Youth Association (APPYA)
Publisher:
National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
11/01/2012
Resource Type:
Press Statement
Language:
English
Millions of Ghanaians voted in a close election last December that returned incumbent President John Dramani to office by a margin of less than 3 percentage points. An independent vote count by a local election monitoring organization that used SMS technology to verify returns from around the country gave many voters the confidence necessary to ensure a peaceful election process—both during the voting and in the days following.
Author:
NDI
Publisher:
National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
02/08/2013
Resource Type:
Election Manual
Language:
English
Source:
Peacefare.net
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Published Date:
02/05/2013
Les Campbell, NDI regional director for Middle East and North Africa programs, and Danya Greenfield of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East participated in a recent discussion at the Middle East Institute about the challenges Jordan faces after the Jan. 23 parliamentary elections.
Technical improvements such as standardized ballots resulted in progress from previous elections, but the King still hasn’t instituted meaningful reform.
Source:
Foreign Policy
Article Link:
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Published Date:
01/28/2013
In Foreign Policy, Amy Mawson, a senior project manager at Fireside Research, outlines the challenges that South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission faced in organizing the country’s first post-apartheid election in 1994. The commission, lead by Johann Kriegler, was tasked with creating polling places, issuing voter cards and bringing opposing factions into the conversation, among other things.
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Observers who for the first time were allowed to monitor elections in Jordan said Friday that the vote showed a marked improvement from past polls, but there is still some way to go.
An international team fielded by the National Democratic Institute, made up of 50 observers from 29 countries, highlighted "shortcomings and irregularities," as well as certain systemic problems.
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The new 150-seat Parliament here will include members arrested just days before the elections on charges of vote-buying, and a cast of government loyalists will dominate a body long seen by Jordanians as being as corrupt as it is inept.
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