Uzbekistan wants to remind you of its rigged elections - via SMS

Posted By Evgeny Morozov Monday, December 21, 2009 - 1:08 PM Share

Elections in Uzbekistan may be unfair but they certainly stand out in terms of technology. The Russian news agency Itar-Tass reports that all mobile operators in the country would be "asked" to send SMS reminders to all their customers. I won't be surprised if those who do not vote as the government expects to would then receive a second round of messages, asking them to return to the booth and tick off the right name!

 
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Evgeny Morozov, originally from Belarus, is a visiting scholar at Stanford and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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