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January 18, 2006
Canadian Election Results Via SMS
This January 23rd is Canadas federal election day and as if the media is not fast enough with this sort of thing, mobile-savy Canadians will be able to get up-to-the-minute local real time results via sms/text messaging. The service is provided by CTV.ca and Globeand mail.com.
The innovative joint initiative between CTV and The Globe and Mail will be available, at no additional cost, to any Canadian mobile phone subscriber.
via MOpocket
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January 06, 2006
voter registration via SMS in Malaysia
Malaysians will be able to register as voters online and through the short messaging service (SMS) once amendments to existing laws are made. Malaysia has 4 million eligible voters who are not registered [seems like a low number to me]. Most aren't registered due to lack of facilities and infrastructure, and personal preference. Officials discussed auto registering people when they turned 21, but decided that this method ran counter to democratic process.
i wonder how they're doing ID verification - didn't see anything about it in these articles.
see: http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/National/20051228095128/Article/indexb_html
and
http://web.utm.my/today/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=231
Posted by ben at 08:08 AM | Comments (0)