Resources

NDI Handbook: How Domestic Organizations Monitor Elections: an A to Z Guide

This handbook serves as a basic toolkit for domestic civic organizations conducting election monitoring programs. Drawing on the experiences of NDI partner organizations around the world, it lays out the key elements involved in observation of the entire election process.

Media Monitoring to Promote Democratic Elections: An NDI Handbook for Citizen Organizations

This handbook takes a step-by-step approach to media monitoring. It covers:

• The importance of determining who controls the media and the difference between state-controlled versus private and broadcast versus print media;

• Issues to address in deciding what media and what subjects to monitor;

• Planning and organization of a media monitoring project;

The Quick Count and Election Observation: An NDI Guide for Civic Organizations and Political Parties

This handbook to conducting a Quick Count (also known as Parallel Vote Tabulation, or PVT) addresses the importance of developing systematic observation of vital election day processes, including the quality of voting, ballot counting and tabulation of election results, as well as the projection of electoral results with extremely narrow margins of error and high degrees of statistical confidence. It covers:

• Planning and organizational issues;

Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process: An NDI Monitoring Guide for Political Parties and Civic Organizations

This voter registration monitoring guide addresses:

• The role of voter registration and the principal types of voter registration systems;

• Why it is important for political parties and civic organizations to monitor these systems;

• Specific techniques for monitoring processes for collecting names, creating a voter registry and polling station voter lists, correcting errors in the lists and use of the lists on election day.