Chair has married the gameplay with the vote counting and turned it into a globally connected experience.
But the slow pace of the vote counting has sparked violence in some parts of the country.
Opposition leader Michael Sata has won Zambia's presidential election after two days of vote counting following a tight race with incumbent Rupiah Banda.
However awkward it may have been for the man whose neighbor was running for office, this system made vote counting transparent and did not require voters to read or write.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Vote counting in Iraq began Thursday night after a surprisingly high number of voters turned out to choose the nation's first full-term parliament since Saddam Hussein's ouster.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Election officials in Kenya began transporting their ballot counts to be tallied in the capital Wednesday after the electronic vote counting system broke down, as the coalition of a top presidential candidate levied charges against Britain's high commissioner that the U.K. is meddling in the vote.
In an election fraught with ironies, here is one more: Al Gore , the putative inventor of the Internet, when faced with the perfect test of his belief in empirical solutions to the world's problems, immediately threw out objective, electro-mechanical vote counting in lieu of the most subjective of measurement schemes--teams of politically biased observers peering at increasingly mangled paper ballots.
Blaze even suggests that the computer system responsible for counting the emailed votes might be connected to the traditional vote-counting systems, potentially tainting entire elections even beyond the emailed ballots.
But after the vote-counting fiascoes of recent years, we need to reassure people that their vote will be counted correctly.
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The regional assembly is in charge of electoral procedure and, among other things, vote-counting.
There is a map of Florida's counties and a chapter proposing solutions to vote-counting problems.
It recommends an increase in federal support for state and local governments to purchase new vote-counting equipment.
He set up a one-man lab in Boston, where he invented and patented an electric vote-counting machine.
One would be to move vote-counting from local polling stations to district centres.
Filipinos are fervently hoping that the computerisation of the vote-counting in May's presidential, congressional and local elections will solve the problem.
As if to emphasize that Cambodia is not out of the woods yet, confusion and controversy surrounded the first two days of vote-counting.
Its problems inconsistent voting procedures, antiquated voting equipment, sloppy vote-counting could have happened in any state, argues Paul Gronke, an elections expert in Portland, Oregon.
Kennedy and his snarling little brother Bobby made political "ruthlessness, " unrestrained campaign spending, Teamster support and Mayor Richard Daley's vote-counting techniques into virtues.
The next stage is the vote-counting, a process vulnerable to dispute.
The IEBC chairman's announcement came as the running mate of Mr Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, said they had evidence that the results had been doctored and called for vote-counting to be stopped.
Nowadays, these are normally fraud-free in voting and vote-counting.
Facing no challenge for his job as majority whip, he was able to deploy his vote-counting network (the 64 lawmakers who serve as his assistant whips) behind three of the party's new leaders.
This continues until one candidate has 50% or more of the vote in that round of counting, or there are no more votes to be distributed.
Following glitches with hi-tech voting and counting systems, the vote-tallying process was started again from scratch, and by hand, on Wednesday.
The Democratic Party has always stood up for the principle of counting every person's vote.
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Monday's presidential vote proceeded mostly peacefully, but the counting process has been stymied by a myriad of break-downs and errors.
Counting in the UK-wide Alternative Vote Referendum was delayed by 35 minutes in Northern Ireland.
But, in contrast to his Peruvian counterpart, Mr Chavez said he would back a postponement of the vote if, as seemed possible, the computerised counting system was not ready.
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