This election technology section highlights the future of elections. Also see our section on American Democracy!
Analysis: Robustness of FBI election cyber security changes (1/23/2020) - New guidelines show how the agency will coordinate with state officials in the event of… 
Why Election Security Experts Are Worried About Los Angeles (1/19/2020) - Los Angeles County is moving full steam ahead with plans to use its new election… 
FBI now Watchdog over Breaches to Election Systems (1/17/2020) - FBI will now notify state election officials about cyber breaches to election systems in their jurisdictions, even those… 
Georgia election server showed signs of tampering: Expert (1/16/2020) - Election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs… 
Voting process at risk with nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems online (1/13/2020) - While voting machines themselves are not designed to be online, the larger voting systems in… 
Voters are the reason new “secure” voting machines are still at risk (1/9/2020) - A major study shows that people rarely notice if their vote gets changed by hackers—even… 
Four challenges to world democracy in 2020 (1/2/2020) - Jong Lee, Senior Fellow at the South Korean East Asia Institute has outlined four challenges… 
How to defend against the insidious threat of disinformation (10/21/2019) - Disinformation is an insidious threat undermining faith in democracy. Arizona State University researcher Scott Ruston… 
Disinformation: Countering malign influence of autocrats – and Big Tech? (9/16/2019) - The European Union may need “broader rules to make sure that the way companies collect… 
Detained Iranian Social Media Activist Dies in Prison in Brutal Killing (6/12/2019) - A lawyer for a detained Iranian activist says he has died in a notorious prison… 
Vietnamese Environmental Activist Targeted for Facebook Posts (6/7/2019) - An environmental activist faces a show trial for his Facebook posts, as part of Vietnam’s… 
Attorney, Rights Defender Sentenced to 30 Years, Flogging in Iran (6/5/2019) - Iranian lawyer jailed for 30 years after setting up a channel Telegram, highlighting human rights… 
‘She’ goes missing from presidential language (1/11/2020) - Even when people believed Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election, they did not use… 
Ant behavior might mirror political polarization (1/11/2020) - Division of labour and political polarization—two social phenomena not typically considered together—may actually share a… 
A Precinct Too Far: Turnout and Voting Costs (1/5/2020) - Study on the effects of voting costs—specifically, distance to polling location—using geographic discontinuities. 
How Candidate Attractiveness Plays Role In Voters’ Decisions (1/2/2020) - Researchers concluded that candidates did in fact benefit from attractive looks, as well as appearing… 
Democracy Is The Best Thing For Your Health (7/10/2019) - Recent research from The Lancet says Democratic countries had a higher life expectancy in a… 
Research Seeks Best Timing And Sequencing For Transitional Elections (7/6/2019) - International IDEA’s analysis is relevant to different types of complex political change that the UN… Changes in Election Technology Define Democracy
The focus of this Election Technology section is to encourage discussion of all manner of technologies involved in the voting process from voting machines to voter registration mobile apps. What are the benefits to these technologies? What are the drawbacks? Will the internet ever be secure enough to enable direct democracy? From the small questions to the big, from electronic media to digital lawn signs, everything about voting technology can be found here.
This new era of election technology is an area of heavy debate in political circles. Countries like Estonia are leading the way to digitizing all government services as part of a global trend called eGovernment or eDemocracy. At the same time, the modern technology we rely on has complicated the struggle to protect citizens from government overreach, especially following increased concerns of surveillance of domestic communications.
Also, as covered on Democracy Chronicles, the latest research suggests elections are affected by many outside forces you may not expect. Factors that play into voter turnout now have been found to include boredom, delayed onset adulthood, cigarette smoking, wind speed, rain and bad weather forecasts. This type of research on voting as well as other important research in political science as it relates to democracy, the ultimate invention in political science, is highlighted in our Election Science archives.
Whistleblowers like American Eric Snowden and Australian Julian Assange who have leaked classified information to the public, broke the law but also opened our eyes to the increasing ability of technology to play a sinister role.
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Election Security Efforts Ramp up Ahead of 2020 (1/24/2020) - Experts expect multiple sources of interference than in the 2016 polls. National security concerns persist… 
A coalition has warned weakening encryption could impact election security (1/23/2020) - A coalition for secure elections sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr Wednesday over… 
NPR Poll: Majority Of Americans Believe Trump Encourages Election Interference (1/21/2020) - Weeks before the first votes of the 2020 presidential election, Americans report a high level… 
Email Interview with the Founder of Democracy Counts (1/20/2020) - Democracy Counts is a nonpartisan hi-tech startup that has developed election watchdog apps which it… 
Acting Homeland Security Secretary expects Russian interference in 2020 polls (1/20/2020) - Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Friday that his agency “fully expects” Russia to… Why Election Security Experts Are Worried About Los Angeles (1/19/2020) - Los Angeles County is moving full steam ahead with plans to use its new election… 
Election security, ransomware dominate cyber concerns for 2020 (12/30/2019) - Headed into 2020, with a presidential election on the horizon, cyber concerns are certain to… 
Why Maine’s Governor will delay action on Ranked Choice Voting (9/7/2019) - Gov. Janet Mills said Friday she would delay action on a bill passed by Maine… 
Fear of a race without a finish line as States upgrade election equipment (9/4/2019) - With five months before primary season begins,State election officials around the country are busy upgrading… 
Mystery of missing votes deepens as Congress investigates Georgia (8/29/2019) - To find a clue about what might have gone wrong with Georgia’s election last fall,… 
Spokesperson: Judge Amy Totenberg conclusions “silly and unfounded” (8/18/2019) - Georgia Secretary of State Spokesperson called Judge Amy Totenberg's conclusions on unconstitutionality of Georgia’s Voting… 
3 States Responsible For Half Of All Paperless Voting Machines (6/29/2019) - Lawmakers and election security experts have focused much of their energies over the past two… A coalition has warned weakening encryption could impact election security (1/23/2020) - A coalition for secure elections sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr Wednesday over… 
Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020 (1/12/2020) - The National Security Agency and its British counterpart issued an unusual warning in October: The… 
Facebook will not limit or deter misrepresentations under new ad rules (1/10/2020) - Facebook Thursday ignored calls for new limits on political advertising ahead of 2020, instead making… 
How news coverage gets geo-fragmented (1/5/2020) - National news outlets provide different push notifications at different times to local and national audiences. Four challenges to world democracy in 2020 (1/2/2020) - Jong Lee, Senior Fellow at the South Korean East Asia Institute has outlined four challenges… 
Doc Society v. Pompeo (12/11/2019) - The case is a legal challenge to the State Department’s recent measure that aims at…