Election Observation: Data, Elections and a trip to Kenya
Channel: Privacy International
Date: 05/05/2023

This week we’re joined by Lucy and Laura to discuss the use of technology in elections, and their time monitoring the Kenyan Presidential Election in 2022.

Links

Human rights abuses including unlawful killings by police, violence at Kenya’s 2017 election: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/08/27/kenya-post-election-killings-abuse

Claims of fraud from Kenya’s last election: https://www.cartercenter.org/countries/kenya.html

PI and the Carter Center’s joint election report: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5053/our-final-report-kenyas-2022-election-collaboration-carter-center-election-expert

Challenge to the 2022 election result and Supreme Court decision: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-62768439

More about the use of data in elections: https://privacyinternational.org/taxonomy/term/848

Our data and elections checklist: https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3093/technology-data-and-elections-checklist-election-cycle