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: 

(C) Mapping Buenos Aires Capital City Primary Elections, school by school

Don’t miss the step by step behind the scenes about our news app that allowed readers to perform real time analysis of the results of the elections showing as many details as possible, including the results by polling station!

(D) Open Interviews using Facebook Q& A for Elections Candidates in Buenos Aires

The main goal LA NACION had behind the coverage of the primary election in Ciudad de Buenos Aires, was to focus on giving a service to the audience and to bring together the voters and the politicians. With this in mind, the social media area was asked to think of a tool to help accomplish this goal.

Immediately we thought about the Q&A platform Facebook have recently made available. The huge amount of Facebook users in Argentina, the affinity politicians have with it were some of the excuses we needed to try it out.

The Q&A is a platform in which a celebrity or politician recieve questions from the audience, and answers them in real time. The hosts, in this case LA NACION, establishes a duration of this action (in our case was 30 minutes per interviewee), and make a Facebook post in its fan page. There, the guest can choose which question to answer.

Learn more about these experiences with Facebook!

D) Explanatory videos

We also made animated videos explaining different aspects of coming events.

VIDEO: Which are the documents you need to vote?

VIDEO: Which are the key dates and what do we vote?

VIDEO: Who are elegible to vote?

VIDEO: Information for citizens less than 18 years old and for those that cannot vote

VIDEO: How the primaries work? All you need to know about the primaries, open, simultaneous and compulsory elections.

(E) Twitter Reverb with Twitter Data

We played with Twitter Data to highlight the way a story develops on Twitter. Something non-coders can use to interrogate an API and create a visual,Twitter Reverb.

The spinning circle in the middle represents the numbers of retweets and the major influencers. Context for individual retweets are shown as smaller circles.

Clicking on the circles at the bottom would take you through to the tweets themselves.

See the example embedded in reporting.

(F) Video inverviews with candidates “Conversaciones”

Another highlight on elections reporting are interviews to candidates (presidential, governors, Buenos Aires City council) in our own newsroom. Videos have chapters for main Q&A and there is also a complete version of the conversation (around 20 minutes).

An aggregation of all Conversaciones (Conversations) project.

(G) Elections DATA: Finally, all our data journalism has a special tagging and can be accesed from the Elections MInisite.