Underwood to monitor Ukrainian polling sites
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Former Guam Delegate Robert Underwood will be one of 20 former Congress members to observe polling sites for the Ukraine presidential election this Sunday.
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Europe's leading election monitoring agency, known for keeping tabs on voting in trouble spots such as Belarus and the Balkans, is gearing up for a super-sized challenge: observing the U.S. presidential election.
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Canadians of Ukrainian descent asked the Canadian government to fund travel for up to 1,500 observers to Ukraine to monitor a second try at elections, set for December 26.
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November 6, 2004 â An  Open Source web based Survey tool is playing a key role in keeping track of voting irregularities in todayâs US Presidential Elections. PHPSurveyor (http://phpsurveyor.sourceforge.net), a PHP based online survey tool, is being used to gather data across the United States about all voting irregularities. In the first 10 hours of voting alone, over 13500 incidents had been recorded using the software. The tool was selected by the Verified Voting Foundation as part of their Election Incident Reporting System (http://www.verifiedvoting.org/eirs/) as one of three major system components â all of which are Open Source.    The Advokit tool provides a structure within which campaign leaders can match volunteers to tasks, and manage task completion. The MapServer tool displays clickable maps. PHPSurveyor is used to allow Verified Votingâs thousands of volunteers across the United States to enter voting irregularities and incidents online as the day progresses. Researchers can view the collected data in real time by mining down through a map of the US, viewing incidents at a Nationwide, Statewide, or County level.  PHPSurveyor developer Jason Cleeland said âIâm very excited that my tool is being used for a project of this scale and importance. Itâs an indication both of the success of Open Source as a development strategy, and itâs flexibility in allowing organizations to freely bend an existing project to new uses.â  âWhile PHPSurveyor is generally a tool for simple development and collection of survey responses online, the Verified Voting Foundations âTechWatchâ group of technologists have been able to integrate it with realtime reporting mechanisms that allow legal teams and press across the United States, and the world, to respond immediately to any problems in the Presidential elections as they occur.â  PHPSurveyor was first developed in 2003 by Jason Cleeland in response to his organisationâs need for a better way to run and record surveys. âPaper based surveys were effective, but required a large commitment in terms of staff resourcing,â Mr Cleeland said. âFor a non-profit organisation, finding the time for staff to perform the required data entry was a real problem. Yet at the same time, we had a constant need to run surveys of our members. Writing an online survey tool solved these problems. It eliminated the double-handling of the respondent completing the survey, and a data entry operator transferring that response to computerâ said Mr Cleeland. âInstead, the respondent completes the survey online, and the data is immediately available for review.â  From a relatively basic system, the tool quickly grew a wider feature set. âIt was the release of the software on Sourceforge as an Open Source GPL product that really broadened PHPSurveyors outlookâ said Mr Cleeland. âWithin a matter of weeks some IT developers from a public non-profit TV station in Dallas, Texas had started adding code and providing improvements. And since then, more ideas, suggestions, and improvements have flowed from all over the world on a constant and sometimes overwhelming basis.â  At the time of writing PHPSurveyor had collected over 23500 incident reports on the US Presidential election, with 13500 being entered in the 10 hours since voting commenced. âI expect that by the close of polls there will be around 30 to 35,000 entriesâ Mr Cleeland said, âand that by the time all the paper reports have also been collected the tool will have collected at least 40,000 responses. This is very exciting to watch â to see a tool that was intended to handle around 1000 survey responses, to one that can collect - in a very short time frame â over 40,000 indicates to me the benefits of opening source code to the world.â
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A look at a number of states where poll monitors are massing for Tuesday's election. Authorities worry they could confuse or intimidate voters, particularly where races are close.
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Today's papers see challenges ahead for Ukraine's newly-inaugurated president
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Ukrainian former Prime Minister and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko casts his ballot as his daughter Sofia, bottom right, looks on at a polling station in Kiev, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The 500 Canadian observers who will monitor Sunday's election in Ukraine got an emotional send-off Tuesday from Ambassador Mykola Maimeskul.
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Russian State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin, who is a member of CIS mission of observers at the Ukrainian presidential elections, notes an increased participation of Crimean residents in the voting.
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The AFL-CIO will monitor polls in battleground states on Election Day to guard against voting abuses, and is launching a new effort to educate voters about the process and their rights.
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The Central Election Commission of Ukraine has announced that the second round of the countryâs presidential election would be held.
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Ukraine's Parliament will set a date for the presidential inauguration after the election outcome is officially announced, a source in Parliament has said.
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Violations have been registered in the Ukrainian presidential elections on Sunday.
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The political turmoil in Ukraine will make it difficult to determine the precise outcome of the presidential election there, according to a local educator who has made several trips to the nation and is familiar with the situation.
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The Ukrainian presidential candidates wrapped up their stormy campaigns Friday, as hundreds of Canadians prepared to monitor the Boxing Day vote.
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Regional polls in Russia  next Sunday may be a blueprint for nationwide elections in the  coming 18 months. If they are, the Kremlin's harshest critics  will be watching the national votes from the sidelines.
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Former Mississippi Congressman Ronnie Shows is going to be an election observer-in Ukraine.