This is a huge leap, but does anyone out there have the name of a company that manufactures the BiModal Voter Accreditation System #BVAS that #INEC uses for #IReV in #Nigeria elections? All I've found is "tech startups" helped modernize
for those extremely confused, Nigeria used a new vote reporting system and had bad reporting delays. Not the main point of my piece but weird I can't find a manufacturer for the biometric system, governments rarely make such things in house. It should be a contractor.
for the record, I have no reason to think anything nefarious went on, it's just strange I can't find the name of the contractor, and will otherwise be publishing that I couldn't discover who made them [its only a minor component of my story]
@natkpowell besides random people who see the hashtag you're my only potential connection for finding out something like this lol
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I think about this @mtaibbi quote about investigative reporters all the time:
"Real reporting work is mostly a drag, mostly time-consuming, and very often a high-effort, low-reward activity. If you’re doing it right,
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being a nuisance via repeated requests to use a quote or put a name to one, or sitting up at night and hyperventilating about article factoids your sleeping mind has woken you up to have panic attacks about.
There’s a ton of grunt work involved,
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which is why the best exemplars in a profession that attracts many different psychological types — egomaniacs, addicts, rootless wanderers, charmers, social climbers, etc. — are workers. Jeff Gerth is a worker.
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I don't know of a single person who goes around Twitter giving unsolicited marriage advice who is actually marriage.
I'll give you some real advice, as someone who has been married to @LaissezLexi 10 years in September:
Marry someone you love and work for it.
I could have rambled about anything ,and I fucking love my wife I Can talk about that all day. But the truth is, marriage isn't easy, if you're not working at it you aren't doing it right, though the good times are so good.
But damn, I don't miss the bad times in our marriage
but honestly, the way Alexis and I were in love 10 years ago when we got married was kind of bullshit, insofar as we we're older people who have actually gone through and tested everything. You never will be unless you marry.
When were the last good times in America? ; Or, What have we done to the youth?
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I found out today that a prominent American social media commentator who is, um... immoderately... pro-Russian, is only 21. I had thought he was late 20s.
My instinct was to give him some leeway for the certainty and extremism of youth yet to give way to wisdom of age.
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However, I got to thinking what a person who was born in 2001 has actually been through, and it is dismal to imagine.
I am 35 and was in 8th grade for 9/11, so there was a clear demarcation for a sort of good times ending, but childhood is also a sort of ignorant bliss.