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Our friends at CENTAL have launched a news portal aggregating all corruption stories reported in the Liberian media. Read it here: Liberia Corruption Watch— Jonathan Werve

A new trend in the U.S. — corporations getting into the election spirit with free handouts to voters. It’s all good spirited democratic cheerleading; it’s also illegal. Major U.S. retail brands like Starbucks, Krispe Kreme and 7-11 are eager to engage with their customers around the election. It’s a convergence of three trends — an…

With a short time remaining in office, “President Bush’s aides have been scrambling to change rules and regulations on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights, among others,” reports the New York Times. In the midst of a presidential campaign that featured an incumbent party determined minimize President Bush’s visibility, many of these changes have…

The Washington Post reports on a rebuke to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the Iranian Parliament, as they impeach a minister for inflating his resume. An Ahmadinejad aide was fired after unsuccessfully attempting to bribe MPs not to impeach. Washington Post: Iran’s parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to impeach a cabinet minister who has been a close…

A new website allows journalists and poll-watchers to track polling problems in realtime as voters report on their ballot experience. Using the now ubiquitous Google Maps API, a simple interface allows voters or poll watchers to report conditions nationwide. It’s a simple good-or-bad metric (plus comments), might be relatively easy to distort and doesn’t address…

Global Integrity is a non-partisan organization and does not endorse candidates. However, we can endorse the most innovative metrics and analysis tools of the 2008 campaign cycle, and that nod goes to Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com. Telephone polling in the United States is in significant upheaval. First, mobile communications has reduced the accuracy of landline…