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Text Messages Used To Monitor Elections 42

InternetVoting writes "The upcoming historic Nigerian elections are going to be defended by an army of observers armed, not with guns, but with text messages. Every one of the observers will be outfitted with a cell phone to report vote tampering. The volunteers are a part of the Network of Mobile Election Monitors, and they use freeware to do what they do. From the article: 'NMEM is using a free system called Frontline SMS, developed by programmer Ken Banks, to keep track of all of the texts. Originally developed for conservationists to keep in touch with communities in National Parks in South Africa, the system allows mass-messaging to mobile phones and crucially the ability to reply to a central computer. It has already been used in countries such as Zimbabwe as a way of bypassing broadcast restrictions and distributing information to rural communities.'"
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Text Messages Used To Monitor Elections

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    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 21, 2007 @03:17AM (#18821843)
    I'll put this in terms most Slashdotters will understand:

    select quote_text from quote where author like 'benjamin%' and quote_text like '%vigil%';

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