What went RIGHT in the 2013 Kenyan national election? Information Technology(correlsense.com)

4 pointsby ohjeezvor 13 Jahren2 comments

What went RIGHT in the 2013 Kenyan national election? Information Technology

http://www.correlsense.com/it-ops/information-technology-in-the-2013-kenyan-national-election/

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mheusservor 13 Jahren

Oh I see, this is a contrarian piece. Because I know more than a little went wrong -- see http://world.myjoyonline.com/pages/africa/201303/102427.php

and

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Computer-bug-behind-th... tell me the vote count ended up by hand ...

hn12vor 13 Jahren

I'm the author of the original article. I didn't think of the content itself as "contrarian", but the headline certainly turned out that way--and of course "contrarian" has different meanings to different people.

Plenty went wrong. Plenty went right.

Hand-recounted votes aren't such a bad thing, in my personal view; more objectively, I think it's only fair to note how often they happen in the US, Canada, the UK, ...