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Bolivia: Referendum Coverage on Twitter

Categories: Latin America, Bolivia, Elections, Technology

As the polls close across Bolivia for the Constitutional Referendum vote [1], many of the country's users of Twitter have been hard at work sending messages about their experiences from their cities. In order to centralize the information, they are using the #referendum [2] tag.

Throughout the day, many tweeted after returning from their polling place and reporting on the action. Rolando Espinoza (@darkrho) writes about the opposition youth group [3] in Cochabamba, who were present at the school where he voted:



#referendum cbba (Cochabamba) juventud kochala (the youth group) are controlling delegate lists at the Loyola School.

In La Paz, Eliana Quiroz (@e_liana) writes how many are spending the day after performing their civic duty. [4]



Some eat sajta de pollo (chicken dish) and others drink Coca-Cola after voting at the high school in La Paz.

She also posts a photo on Twitpic [5] of her ink-stained finger indicating that she has already voted.

Some voters find themselves far from home on election day. Mario César Señoranis (@mariocesar_bo) of Santa Cruz is currently across the country in the city of La Paz and is unsure whether he can vote [6]:



I am waking up u_u zZzZ … I still don't know how to obtain the voting certificate for the #referendum, I should have voted in scz (Santa Cruz), but I am in lpz (La Paz) 8′(

The site Al Minuto [es] [7] created a special Twitter account @referendum_bo [8] to share links of the news unfolding events and also placed a Cover It Live widget to generate live chat and republication of some tweets.