"Although some prominent Internet activists decided to boycott Monday’s elections in Egypt to protest continued military rule, many well-known bloggers spent the day working as self-appointed election monitors. Using the same social media tools that helped them to force Hosni Mubarak from office, the bloggers posted images of long lines at polling places and passed on reports of apparent violations of the electoral code."
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Thursday 1 December 2011
Election Monitoring Crowd-Sourced in Egypt
From the New York Times' Lede blog:
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2011,
blogging,
Egypt,
election,
monitoring,
social media