This election technology section highlights the future of elections. Also see our section on American Democracy!
A Top Online Voting Company Is Ramping Up Its Cyber Vetting (5/8/2022) - Democracy Live, which ran online voting pilots in 2020 is continuously testing its platform for… 
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… 
Securing the Midterms: Smarter Tools Watch Over Voter Records (3/27/2022) - Harvard University technology lab and Protect Democracy think that automated alerts and machine learning can… 
PODCAST: Ro Khanna On Dignity And Democracy (3/22/2022) - Representative Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley in Congress and addresses the question of dignity in… 
Digital Human Rights Need A Single Home In U.S. Government (3/16/2022) - Autocrats have always tried to tightly control their people and today's modern means of communication… 
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… 
Moneyed Interests, Information Provision, and Congress (5/17/2022) - Politicians wrongly assume their self-interests are compatible with constituents' interests, the rich tend to have… 
Adolescents In The US Are Becoming More Politically Polarized (5/6/2022) - In contrast to the findings of the 1960s an update to the socialization literature shows… 
Left-Wing Authoritarians Share Key Psychological Traits With Far Right (5/6/2022) - People with authoritarian views, left or right, have surprisingly similar behaviors and psychological characteristics, a… 
A Hard Look At Corporations, Political Spending And Democracy (5/3/2022) - There is a crisis of democracy in America which poses fundamental questions for company engagement… 
Faces of Genders Are Perceived Differently By Liberals And Conservatives (4/14/2022) - Liberals and conservatives differ in how they perceive dominance in women, which may influence their… 
FairVote Releases State Rankings Of Democracy (4/11/2022) - FairVote, a nonpartisan group dedicated to improving elections, has released its "Dubious Democracy" state rankings… 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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Occam’s Razor And Election Fraud (5/12/2022) - The idea that thousands of operators from multiple states can cover their tracks so well… A Top Online Voting Company Is Ramping Up Its Cyber Vetting (5/8/2022) - Democracy Live, which ran online voting pilots in 2020 is continuously testing its platform for… 
Big Outside Spending On Election Denial Floods Local Elections (4/11/2022) - Out-of-state groups used statements challenging the legitimacy of the 2020 elections to try to sway… 
The Elections Police Are Coming (3/18/2022) - A new measure in the GOP-controlled Georgia legislature would hand new election policing powers to… 
More Robust Election Observation Could Help Save Elections (3/18/2022) - Given the barrage of threats to U.S. elections, more robust election observation efforts could be… 
Attacks Against Election Officials Are Taking a Toll (3/18/2022) - Election officials so essential to the functioning of American democracy have increasingly come under attack… 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… 
NJ Bill Would Require Voting Machines Leave Paper Trail (2/20/2022) - A new bill would alter the rule by requiring counties to purchase machines that create… 
Paper Shortage For Ballots Could Pose Difficulties for Elections (2/18/2022) - With this year’s election season right around the corner, a shortage of paper for ballots… 
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… 
Free Speech In Sri Lanka Under Threat Amid Political Turmoil (4/8/2022) - Sunday, Sri Lanka enforced a temporary social media ban nationwide to quell public unrest sparked… 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…