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Kenyan Startup Ushahidi Launches a Crowdsourced Campaign to Monitor the U.S. Election

“Ushahidi does election monitoring in 40 countries around the world. We said: ‘Why not for the US?’ ”

November 7, 2016
by TechCrunch/

The Kenyan software company Ushahidi has launched a campaign to observe the upcoming U.S. elections.

The operation, called USA Election Monitor, will track voting irregularities reported via website, email, Twitter and SMS and post accounts to an online interactive map.

“It’s a citizen-inspired, citizen-led election deployment,” Ushahidi’s Executive Director Daudi Were told TechCrunch.

 

 

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