Election fraud protests will endure in Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Election Fraud

Headline ECUADOR: Election fraud protests will endure

Mexico-US relations to remain challenging under Biden

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Minister ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bilateral Relationship ◽  
Election Fraud ◽  
Democratic Norms ◽  
Do So

Significance Arguing that to do so before the result becomes official on December 14 would be premature, AMLO has rejected claims that his silence is tantamount to endorsing President Donald Trump’s allegations of election fraud and that it could sour relations with the incoming administration. Impacts Biden’s presidency will be broadly welcomed in Mexico, with less hostile rhetoric facilitating friendly relations. The need to control the spread of COVID-19 will define some elements of the bilateral relationship in the short term. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard will continue to lead the bilateral relationship, while AMLO maintains his focus on domestic matters. Tensions may rise as the 2021 elections near, if AMLO is viewed by Washington as undermining democratic norms.

Zimbabwean election fraud concerns will persist

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Election Fraud

Headline ZIMBABWE: Election fraud concerns will persist

African election fraud will persist despite innovation

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Technology Deployment ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
International Donors ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Election Fraud

Significance International donors and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are promoting greater use of technology in elections across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Electoral technology deployment is already more widespread in the region than anywhere else. Impacts Reliance on connective electoral technology will increase cybersecurity risks. Donors will support technological solutions but increasingly push for cheap and simple hardware and software. Electoral manipulation and voter harassment ahead of voting will prove more difficult to address through technological innovation.

Mozambique debt crisis will overshadow FRELIMO victory

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Funding Programme ◽  
Election Fraud ◽  
The Government ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies ◽  
Campaign Financing

Subject Mozambican debt revelations. Significance President Filipe Nyusi’s grip on the ruling FRELIMO has been strengthened after his and his party’s convincing (albeit disputed) election victory last month. Nevertheless, the poll triumph has quickly been eclipsed by recent US court revelations surrounding a long-standing hidden debts scandal, which has implicated leading FRELIMO figures. Nyusi’s embattled government hopes that economic developments will soon dominate the headlines as it ramps up major new liquefied natural gas (LNG) investments and attempts to convince the IMF to initiate a new funding programme. Impacts The government-RENAMO peace agreement will come under increasing pressure after evidence of FRELIMO-associated election fraud. Maputo's political and fiscal woes mean oil and gas companies will have free reign to implement their preferred investment plans. Civil society pressure for greater campaign financing transparency will prove fruitless amid FRELIMO resistance over the short term.

Mali election fraud claims may founder

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Election Fraud

Headline MALI: Election fraud claims may founder

The Forensics of Election Fraud

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Myagkov ◽  
Peter C. Ordeshook ◽  
Dimitri Shakin
Keyword(s):  
Election Fraud

The More Control, the Better?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeeyun Oh ◽  
Mun-Young Chung ◽  
Sangyong Han
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Design ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Story Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High User ◽  
User Control ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Control Versus ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Despite of the popularity of interactive movie trailers, rigorous research on one of the most apparent features of these interfaces – the level of user control – has been scarce. This study explored the effects of user control on users’ immersion and enjoyment of the movie trailers, moderated by the content type. We conducted a 2 (high user control versus low user control) × 2 (drama film trailer versus documentary film trailer) mixed-design factorial experiment. The results showed that the level of user control over movie trailer interfaces decreased users’ immersion when the trailer had an element of traditional story structure, such as a drama film trailer. Participants in the high user control condition answered that they were less fascinated with, absorbed in, focused on, mentally involved with, and emotionally affected by the movie trailer than participants in the low user control condition only with the drama movie trailer. The negative effects of user control on the level of immersion for the drama trailer translated into users’ enjoyment. The impact of user control over interfaces on immersion and enjoyment varies depending on the nature of the media content, which suggests a possible trade-off between the level of user control and entertainment outcomes.

GREEN OPEN ACCESS IN KENYA: A REVIEW OF THE CONTENT, POLICIES AND USAGE OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Wanyenda Leonard Chilimo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Current State ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

 There is scant research-based evidence on the development and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa, and in Kenya in particular. This article reports on a study that attempted to fill that gap and provide feedback on the various OA projects and advocacy work currently underway in universities and research institutions in Kenya and in other developing countries. The article presents the findings of a descriptive study that set out to evaluate the current state of IRs in Kenya. Webometric approaches and interviews with IR managers were used to collect the data for the study. The findings showed that Kenya has made some progress in adopting OA with a total of 12 IRs currently listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and five mandatory self-archiving policies listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). Most of the IRs are owned by universities where theses and dissertations constitute the majority of the content type followed by journal articles. The results on the usage and impact of materials deposited in Kenyan IRs indicated that the most viewed publications in the repositories also received citations in Google Scholar, thereby signifying their impact and importance. The results also showed that there was a considerable interest in Swahili language publications among users of the repositories in Kenya.

Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Pennycook ◽  
David Gertler Rand
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
False Beliefs ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
Election Fraud ◽  
Voter Fraud ◽  
Election News

The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election saw an unprecedented number of false claims alleging election fraud and arguing that Donald Trump was the actual winner of the election. Here we report a survey exploring belief in these false claims that was conducted three days after Biden was declared the winner. We find that a majority of Trump voters in our sample – particularly those who were more politically knowl-edgeable and more closely following election news – falsely believed that election fraud was wide-spread and that Trump won the election. Thus, false beliefs about the election are not merely a fringe phenomenon. We also find that Trump conceding or losing his legal challenges would likely lead a ma-jority of Trump voters to accept Biden’s victory as legitimate, although 40% said they would continue to view Biden as illegitimate regardless. Finally, we found that levels of partisan spite and endorsement of violence were equivalent between Trump and Biden voters.

Motivating Exercise Through Social Media: Is a Picture Always Worth a Thousand Words?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlyn Johnston ◽  
William E. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Exercise Motivation ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Within Subjects

In the present study, we examined how the influence of exercise-related social media content on exercise motivation might differ across content type (with images vs. without images) and account type (individual vs. corporate). Using a 2 × 2 within-subjects experimental design, 229 participants viewed a series of 40 actual social media posts across the four conditions (individual posts with images, corporate posts with images, individual posts without images, and corporate posts without images) in a randomized order. Participants rated the extent to which they felt each social media post motivated them to exercise, would motivate others to exercise, and was posted for extrinsic reasons. Participants also completed other measures of individual differences including their own exercise motivation. Posts with images from individuals were more motivating than posts with images from corporations; however, corporate posts without images were more motivating than posts without images from individuals. Participants expected others to be similarly motivated by the stimuli, and perceived corporate posts as having been posted for more extrinsic reasons than individuals’ posts. These findings enhance our understanding of how social media may be used to promote positive health behaviors.

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