Following recent advances in secured internet technology, the proliferation of mobile technology and the call for good democratic governance in Africa, Election monitoring and reporting has been made easy with the deployment of these technologies.

Both the Developed and Third world Countries all over the world are harnessing the power of these technologies to conveniently establish direct access to authorized field officers or polling station officers to reporting electoral results and other electoral incidence as used in the USA, some Asian countries and other African countries.

With SMSGH’s mobile and internet data transfer infrastructure, a collation centre will be able to receive results from polling station officials by

• Receiving real-time election result via SMS on the election day from polling station officials via a common short code.
• Interact in real-time with polling station officers via a web interface provided by SMSGH

This appliance would make events on election-day easily accessible to both the Campaign Office and Party Executives and would result in

• Reducing electoral fraud and getting these incidents reported in real-time
• Deepening democracy
• Bring out electoral irregularities and contest doubtful results
• Collect useful electioneering data for reporting purpose, analyzing purposes for future elections etc.