A new website allows journalists and poll-watchers to track polling problems in realtime as voters report on their ballot experience. Using the now ubiquitous Google Maps API, a simple interface allows voters or poll watchers to report conditions nationwide. It’s a simple good-or-bad metric (plus comments), might be relatively easy to distort and doesn’t address…
Global Integrity is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates. However, we can endorse the most innovative metrics and analysis tools of the 2008 campaign cycle, and that nod goes to Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com. Telephone polling in the United States is in significant upheaval. First, mobile communications has reduced the accuracy of landline…
Our friends at PATTIRO (Center for Regional Information and Studies) and IHRIP (International Human Rights Internship Program) are “interested in identifying other organizations that are working in the area of the right to education and government budgets.” Please contact Global Integrity (info@globalintegrity.org) if you need contact information for either group. PATTIRO currently works on budget…
Yesterday, the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) jointly hosted a panel event to discuss the current role of independent media in Russia. The panel was entitled “The Struggle for Press Freedom in Russia: The Role of Independent Regional Newspapers” and it featured Anna Koshman who runs a…
In September, our blog highlighted a story on the inordinately high number (over 95%!) of Long Island Railroad (LIRR) employees who file for and receive disability benefits. The New York Times has continued to follow the federal investigation of the LIRR and published two stories already this week focused on the role of doctors, managers…
Senator Ted Stevens (Republican-Alaska) is convicted on seven felony counts for hiding more than US$250,000 in gifts received from an oil executive while in office. Stevens is locked in a tight re-election battle that now looks likely to go to the Democrats. We round up the coverage for you here: The AP has the overview…