This election technology section highlights the future of elections. Also see our section on American Democracy!
Michigan Officials Detail a Brazen Voting Machine Scheme (8/11/2022) - The Michigan attorney general's office discovered attempts to induce county clerks in three counties to… 
Denver Renews Voting Software Feds Say Proved Vulnerable (8/11/2022) - A federal agency warned about a security breach on the Dominion systems last month. But… 
New Tech Helps Citizens Audit The Vote (8/9/2022) - Rebuilding trust in our democracy would require high-quality verification in the form of audits that… 
A Primer On Ballot Marking Device Security (7/18/2022) - Ballot marking devices (BMDs) guard against errors like stray pen marks and overvoting that can… 
Activists Say Cyber Agency Weakens Voting Tech Advisory (6/8/2022) - Friday, the top cybersecurity agency issued a final version of an advisory on voting machine… 
Do Ballot Barcodes Threaten Election Security? (6/8/2022) - BMDs have been challenged for creating security risk to elections. The trade-off between benefits and… 
Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Freed After 10 Years In Prison (3/13/2022) - The family of Raif Badawi, one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent political prisoners, has said… 
TikTok Is Just The Platform Russian Dissidents Need (3/10/2022) - Tiktok despite being swamped in misinformation at times, the app also serves as a platform… 
Oman Arrests Prominent Internet Activist Al-Kathiri (3/7/2022) - Reliable local sources confirmed that on March 2, 2022, Oman's security authorities detained internet activist… 
Hacktivists Are Piercing Russia’s Propaganda Bubble (3/6/2022) - Hackers have decided to wage war on Russia, ensuring Russians see photos of Vladimir Putin's… 
Blogger Arrested in Iran After Tweets Critical Of Government (2/26/2022) - Authorities have detained Ronaghi Maleki, an Iranian blogger. His detention came as a result of… 
Uzbek Blogger Jailed For Facebook Post (1/30/2022) - An Uzbek court sentenced a Muslim blogger to seven and a half years in prison for… 
Voters Can Be Persuaded To Switch Candidate Support With New Info (8/14/2022) - Voters' responses to information in a way compatible with Bayesian updating, can explain the modest… 
Too Many Americans Want A Dictatorship, Not Democracy (7/8/2022) - The success of the American experiment depends on responsible leaders and citizens educated in the… 
Historical Lynching’s And The Contemporary Black Voting Behavior (6/30/2022) - Blacks in southern counties that experienced a relatively higher number of historical lynchings have lower… 
Study: Politicians Typically Enjoy Longer Lives Than General Populations (6/28/2022) - For almost all countries, politicians had similar rates of mortality to the general population in… 
The Harmful Effects Of Partisan Polarization On Health (6/13/2022) - Partisan polarization causes significant stress and worry among Americans and polarization may be influencing their… 
The Changing Face Of Tyranny In The 21st Century (6/8/2022) - Dictators in the 21 century are different - they're "spin" dictatorships that manipulate info. They… 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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Cyber Sleuths Take Aim At Election Disinformation (8/17/2022) - Despite continued election conspiracy claims, security experts who have spent years uncovering voting system problems… 
Threats Against Election Workers Occurring Across Texas (8/17/2022) - Texas is experiencing threats against county clerks and election officials as the midterm election on… Michigan Officials Detail a Brazen Voting Machine Scheme (8/11/2022) - The Michigan attorney general's office discovered attempts to induce county clerks in three counties to… Denver Renews Voting Software Feds Say Proved Vulnerable (8/11/2022) - A federal agency warned about a security breach on the Dominion systems last month. But… 
Election Workers Report More Than 1,000 ‘hostile’ Contacts (8/4/2022) - More than 1,000 interactions "identified as hostile or harassing" were examined by a task force… A Primer On Ballot Marking Device Security (7/18/2022) - Ballot marking devices (BMDs) guard against errors like stray pen marks and overvoting that can… Do Ballot Barcodes Threaten Election Security? (6/8/2022) - BMDs have been challenged for creating security risk to elections. The trade-off between benefits and… 
Cyber agency: Voting Software Vulnerable In Some States (6/4/2022) - Software flaws in electronic voting equipment from a key vendor used in at least 16… 
So Long, Paperless Mississippi Voting Machines (5/6/2022) - It took a false election controversy to persuade Mississippi politicians and election officials of the… 
States Struggle to Add Paper Trails to Voting Machines (5/3/2022) - Voting machine upgrades... in several states have gained new urgency amid a flood of right-wing… 
Some In GOP Want Ballots To Be Counted By Hand, Not Machines (3/13/2022) - Growing suspicion about voting systems has kindled a back-to-the future moment among conservatives in some… 
Analysis: Voting Machines At Risk In 2022 (3/2/2022) - A joint analysis from Brennan Center, Verified Voting finds replacing aging voting equipment will cost hundreds of… 
Social Media Contributes To Fragmentation Of Political Parties (6/13/2022) - Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has escalated a dispute outside New York by endorsing her colleague's primary… 
Help Wanted: State Misinformation Sheriff (6/8/2022) - Several states are making great effort, devoting more resources and time to countering false and… 
Anxious Leaders Influence Their Followers’ Anxiety, Even Online (5/17/2022) - Organizational leader’s tweets can influence employee anxieties and this effect is more prominent since the… 
In Election Misinformation Fight, ’2020 Changed Everything’ (4/26/2022) - Using social media to directly reply to queries, polling location mistakes, or false claims might… 
China Lockdown Frustration Sparks ‘Creative’ Wave Of Dissent (4/21/2022) - China strongly censors speech. With developments in technology, Chinese citizens are finding ways to circumvent… 
Mark Zuckerberg Ends Election Grants (4/15/2022) - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who gave half a billion USD in 2020 to election offices…