Categoría: Elections

Elections in Argentina 2015 Highlights

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This 2015 will be a year full of elections in Argentina: Regional PASO elections, Regional final elections and the mother of all… Presidential elections.

So first we published our (A) elections calendar:

 

Argentina voting is a compulsory right, so Argentinians will be voting many times during this year. The PASO elections are not withheld inside the political party affiliates but rather extended to the whole census.

To introduce our users to the candidate´s background, we published a (B) special interactive in which you can find detailed data and even the affidavit of the candidates:  Seguir leyendo →

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Mapping Buenos Aires City Primary Elections, school by school

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On April 26th Buenos Aires City has held its first Primary elections (PASO). PASO stands for Simultaneous and Obligatory Open Primary elections. In this election two main things are decided:

  • Which candidate will pass as the official candidate for each political party for the final elections

  • Each political party has to achieve at least 1.5% of the total votes to be able to continue on the election race.

Solving problems on the fly

The local government decided to switch technological providers for this and upcoming elections and as usual there is some adjustment time to get things working smoothly.  Seguir leyendo →

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The Political Maze 2015

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The candidates for president in Argentina are already immersed in the complex electoral race with focus on arriving to the Casa Rosada by the end of 2015. A good exercise for voters is to explore as a wayback machine and review the political past of each candidate, and get more background beyond their promises or public statements.

LA NACION launched by the end of 2014 “The Political Maze 2015”, an interactive tool for visualizing the political path made by the major candidates and crosses between them in different political parties during previous elections.  Seguir leyendo →

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