“Every constituency is belonging to a particular region, and each candidate is given a colour. The feedback received from voters, particularly those who are illiterate, helped them to revamp the program to make it user-friendly, as well as easy to understand with the use of symbols and colour. ![]() This is the first presidential election they are covering, but the app, developed with Gambian company Assutech, was initially rolled out for local government elections in 2018. “We worked with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to get the information from the source and put it on the app, so the info is credible and reliable,” Nyang says. ![]() Marble is a non-partisan app, giving information on all candidates and vote counts throughout the country. ![]() Social media is another place voters can go, but he says it is hard to trust which sources are reliable.
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