Plastic Media helped with mobile elections in Vladimir region
Plastic Media conducted mobile voting trial that took place at several polling stations in Raduzny, Vladimir region, during legislative assembly elections on March 1, 2009. During the trial voters sent text messages to free short number 5061, specially provided by operators for the occasion. After sending SMS users opened a special Java application for voting that was preliminary installed on their handsets.
Plastic Media offered solution, which allowed subscribers of all operators working in the region take part in the voting. More than 3 000 people took part in the trial (that is about one third of all voters in Raduzhny), and that demonstrated high potential of mobile voting.
The trial was conducted to study the willingness of people to use new modern ways to cast their votes.
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