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Blogpost: Analyse our results for election data #1079

Open dannylammerhirt opened 7 years ago

dannylammerhirt commented 7 years ago

GODI measures election results at the highest level of disaggregation, i.e. polling station level.

The National Democratic Institute defines this as the

However, there has been a drop from 50% of the countries meeting our criteria, to 25% this year. It is likely that this change is not only related to our smaller country sample.

We will investigate where these changes come from. Also we will map, how many countries provide polling station data. This data can be used for follow-up analyses such as a comparison of elections law in different countries

morchickit commented 7 years ago

Why do you need interviews? Do some desk research first! Answer is that elections committees are independent for government and subjected to the elections law, where these lines are usually defined.

On 5 May 2017 7:06 a.m., "dannylammerhirt" notifications@github.com wrote:

GODI measures election results at the highest level of disaggregation, i.e. polling station level.

The National Democratic Institute defines this as the

However, there has been a drop from 50% of the countries meeting our criteria, to 25% this year. It is likely that this change is not only related to our smaller country sample.

We will investigate where these changes come from. Also we will map, how many countries provide polling station data. This data can be used for follow-up analyses such as

  • interviews with policy-makers as to why polling station data is readily provided in some countries but not in others.

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dannylammerhirt commented 7 years ago

Does our assessment of invalid votes lead to different results this year? Check with Michael if our vigilance of spoilt votes is relevant? Shall we be that thorough

dannylammerhirt commented 7 years ago

@tlacoyodefrijol and @morchickit : we need to add notes to the reviewer comments for elections data.

These notes should state that

We'll discuss to in what countries we'll do the changes.

Option 1 : Add a specific note with reference to national law stating that polling station info is never accessible (+ adding link to law)

Option 2: Write a general note for all country entries to state that our results adhere to highest transparency standards (and we only assess data at polling station level this year). These are however often not feasible due to existing legislation.