[gpvos]

Last time with the European Parliament elections in the Netherlands, there was a small uproar because the elections were held on Thursday (all other elections here are held on Wednesday), but the results could not be announced until Saturday or Sunday because most other European countries held their elections then. However, keeping the final result undercover for a few days is actually against Dutch election rules.

So, a critical web site organized a nationwide system where people could sign up for their polling station, to stay around during the counting and then report the results back to the web site. They got about 70% coverage I think; in the large cities it was near 100%. It was quite interesting. It was a close vote, and their result was slightly off, but close.

I am considering to alternate each election between being an official election helper and unofficial self-appointed monitor.

[realityking]

The European Elections provide some interesting challenges, my favorite being people who, apparently unaware that it's illegal, vote twice: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/26/us-eu-election-ger...