Getting Started with a PVT

The success of a quick count hinges on groundwork laid early in the project. This chapter discusses the work that needs to be done in the first weeks of a quick count project. The key building block tasks are:

What is a PVT?

Open Election Data Initiative

Citizens, technologists and civil society organizations across the globe are demanding more openness in government, including government data, so that they can ensure public institutions are more transparent, responsive and accountable. At the same time, election management bodies (EMBs) are making more electoral data public in a variety of ways. Citizens need to be equipped to advocate for and analyze election data, while EMBs can use emerging open election data principles to ensure they release election data in ways that are useful to citizens. 

Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors

Over four million citizens in more than 100 countries have engaged in nonpartisan citizen election monitoring since it started in the mid-1980s in the Philippines. Nonpartisan citizen election monitoring contributes to electoral integrity, defends political rights, mitigates potential for violence, helps create governmental accountability, deters and exposes fraud, promotes public confidence in elections and resulting governments as warranted, and strengthens citizen organization and participation in public affairs.

January 4, 2017

With All Eyes on Ghana, NDI Observers Applaud the Country’s Peaceful Elections

In early December, 30 delegates from 14 countries and four continents began arriving in Accra, Ghana for NDI’s international election observation mission. Experts had warned that the December 7, 2016 election, much like the 2012 election, would likely be very close. But this time there were fears of violence and low confidence in the country’s electoral institutions and staunchly partisan political actors.

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Acción Ciudadana Final Report: Long-Term Observation of Electoral Violence

Acción Ciudadana final report on the long-term observation on electoral violence and campaign spending in 20 municipalities: During 2015 elections, the Guatemalan chapter of Transparency International, Citizen Action Acción Ciudadana (AC), organized a long-term observation in 20 municipalities that were identified as having experienced high levels of electoral violence during past elections. The observation, focused on monitoring and mitigating incidents and triggers of electoral violence and observing illegal campaign financing in the target municipalities.

December 17, 2016

Orderly Voting Process Characterized Macedonia's 2016 Parliamentary Elections

Macedonia’s voters came out in large numbers in parliamentary elections on December 11 in a bid to stem a prolonged political crisis that has effectively stopped the political process and upended the country’s bid to join the European Union and NATO. With turnout at approximately 70 percent, citizens voted in six election districts and for 120 members of parliament in what domestic and international observers, including NDI’s Macedonian citizen observation partner, MOST, described as an orderly voting process, albeit not problem-free.

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External Evaluation Findings on the Mirador Electoral Election Observation

External evaluation findings on the Mirador Electoral election observation: To help safeguard the integrity of Guatemala’s 2015 elections, NDI and nine-member local observation coalition, Electoral Watch (Mirador Electoral), conducted a comprehensive program to monitor the pre-election environment as well as the electoral process and polls on election day. Following the conclusion of this program, NDI contracted an external evaluation of the project to gain insight on lessons learned and recommendations for future electoral processes.

Mirador Electoral Final Election Observation Report

Mirador Electoral final election observation report: To help safeguard the integrity of Guatemala’s 2015 elections, NDI and nine-member local observation coalition, Electoral Watch (Mirador Electoral), conducted a comprehensive program to monitor the pre-election environment as well as the electoral process and polls on election day.

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