Vote Report India will partner with citizens’ networks, human rights organizations, and journalists to contribute direct SMS, email and web reports on violations of the Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct (PDF). It will then aggregate these direct reports with news reports, blog posts, photos, videos and tweets related to the elections from all relevant sources, in one place, on an interactive map. The interactive map will allow tracking the irregularities in the campaigns leading up to the elections, the voting experience on the day of the elections, and the results themselves.
Vote Report India is powered by two path-breaking non-profit open-source projects — Ushahidi and SwiftRiver — and managed by eMoksha. Ushahidi is an award-winning platform that crowd-sources crisis information. SwiftRiver is a platform that makes sense of multiple sources of information in a fast-changing crisis situation. eMoksha is a non-profit organization that aims to enable stronger democracies through increased citizen awareness and engagement.
With 714 million people headed to the polls in 543 constituencies over 5 days, information on election trends, projections, and outcomes is going to be like a firehose. Several netizens and bloggers have partnered to form Vote Report India to synthesize and disseminate credible information as it streams it.
This might be the first crowdsourced election information network so more the merrier. Gaurav Mishra and Erik Hersman have taken the lead and are looking for volunteers if you are interested.
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