Friday, May 14, 2004
Elections in the Philippines
The national elections on May 10 were a mess with as much violence and cheating as you can imagine. But the counting of the votes is even a bigger mess as you can see here. The final results aren't expected within the first 3 weeks.
For comparison, a quote from an article about India's elections:
"India's sheer ability to carry off a marathon nationwide vote with relatively few missteps is worthy of praise. The logistics are staggering: nearly 670 million eligible voters, of whom more than half cast ballots, 750 political parties, 700,000 polling stations and 3.5 million people working to make it all happen. To ensure that the process would be fair and that there would be enough security at the polls, voting was conducted in five phases over several weeks.
And it was all done electronically, making this the world's biggest test yet of voting by machine. Counting the 380 million digital votes took about 16 hours."
For comparison, a quote from an article about India's elections:
"India's sheer ability to carry off a marathon nationwide vote with relatively few missteps is worthy of praise. The logistics are staggering: nearly 670 million eligible voters, of whom more than half cast ballots, 750 political parties, 700,000 polling stations and 3.5 million people working to make it all happen. To ensure that the process would be fair and that there would be enough security at the polls, voting was conducted in five phases over several weeks.
And it was all done electronically, making this the world's biggest test yet of voting by machine. Counting the 380 million digital votes took about 16 hours."
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