The site includes preliminary raw vote count data released by Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission September 16, 2009, as well as demographic, ethnographic, topographic and security information. It also allows visitors to identify areas that had significant electoral irregularities. Using a series of maps, filters and overlays, the site provides numerous ways to segment and visualize the raw vote count data from a countrywide, provincial, district, polling center and polling station level.
For example, visitors can run custom queries on the number of votes per station and percent for a single candidate and have the results visualized on a map. The map to the right is based on one such query and shows the density of polling stations by district that either returned 600 votes or more or returned 95% for a single candidate, which was effectively the criteria for audit determined by Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaints Commission. The ECC parameters, however, excluded stations returning less than 100 votes.