Afghanistanelectiondata.org is designed to allow users to explore, analyze and visualize the preliminary presidential results for the August 20, 2009, elections. This data was released by the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) on September 16, 2009, in a 2,500 page PDF, a format that made efficient analysis of the data difficult. As part of its 2009 Afghanistan Election Observation Mission, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) partnered with Development Seed, a Washington, D.C.-based online communications consultancy, to develop this site and make the results more accessible to election observers, analysts, journalists, policymakers and the general public. By incorporating other data sets, such as the distribution of ethnic groups and security information, this site could facilitate a better understanding of the manner in which these factors affected the August 20 elections.
Further information about the site, its features and the data sets used can be found in the sections on the left hand side of the screen.
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If you have any questions or concerns about the site or notice any errors, please contact NDI at afghanistanelections@ndi.org.