Founded 24 April 2014 Focus Democracy Volunteers 55,000 (2015) | Founder Sercan Çelebi Method Ballot count security | |
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Location Galatasaray-Beyoğlu İstanbul, Turkey | ||
Vote and Beyond (Turkish: Oy ve Ötesi) is an NGO founded in İstanbul on 24 April 2014. The main aims of the organization are to promote participation to the elections, increase awareness about the candidates and ensure transparency in observering of ballot count in the elections.
Foundation
Start of the Vote and Beyond initiative dates back to Gezi Park protests in 2013. It was founded by 8 volunteers that aim to direct the efforts of the protesters to a solid and fast resulting movement, since a great majority of the protesters were not related to any political entity before the protests. Based on scientific research results done with Turkish voters 28% of the participants of a survey who stated that they don't believe that the election results will not be fair increased to 43% in 2015. The same research demonstrated that ratio of voters who believe that the results of the elections will be fair decreased to 43% in 2015 from 70% in 2007.