2020 Electoral Watchers
The organization Citizen Participation (Span. Participación Ciudadana), the Dominican chapter of Transparency International, recruited and trained more than 2600 volunteers in 2020 to monitor the development of the elections. Those interested in participating had to register in a digital form available on the organization's website. Requirements were: to be Dominican, of legal age, not to be a member of any political party, to be able to read and write and to be available to attend the trainings. The observers visited different polling stations, observing the incidents inside and outside them, from the opening of the polling stations up to the counting of votes and the transmission of results.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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