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Libya implements world’s first mobile voter registration

Reboot’s Panthea Lee talks to The Stream about development of the world’s first mobile voter registration system.

With the Libyan election coming up Wednesday, many are focusing on political analysis and the deteriorating security situation in the country. But few are talking about a new technological development in the country; namely that Libya has the world’s first mobile phone-based voter registration system. Check out digital producer Omar Baddar’s interview with Reboot’s Panthea Lee, discussing how this system was developed and what potential it has: