"If we want to know everything about elections, then we need all the data", - Olga Aivazovska
Open data is both a preventive instrument against manipulations and a sign of cultural communication between those who owns the data and those who has a need and the right to access these data. Publication of open election data prevents conflicts, which often occur during elections. Candidates, parties, observers, journalists, and citizens, who have timely, complete and unimpeded access to the election data, don't have any grounds to mistrust the election commissions and question the election...