This election technology section highlights the future of elections. Also see our section on American Democracy!
Voting-system Firms Battle Right-Wing Rage Against The Machines (11/14/2022) - Due to high cost of eradicating misinformation, voting machine pending makers are obliged to boost… 
How Candidates Are Using TikTok In The US Midterms (10/31/2022) - The Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF tracked and catalogued 227 TikTok accounts created and… 
A Scientist’s Quest for an Accessible, Unhackable Voting Machine (10/29/2022) - After 19 years of building, tinkering, and testing, he told Undark this spring, he had… 
Internet Elections Ignite Fierce Debate In Netherlands (10/29/2022) - It is ill-advised to organize a political election via the Internet. That is the conclusion… 
Only 1 In 4 Election Websites Uses The .gov Domain (10/20/2022) - We analyzed a dataset of election websites maintained by CTCL and found that, of the 7,010… 
PayPal Terminates Hong Kong Account of Democracy Group (10/17/2022) - The account of one of the last pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong with online payment… 
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… 
Democracy Was Top Motivating Factor For Voters (12/6/2022) - Research commissioned by End Citizens United and Let America Vote demonstrates that democracy issues are… 
Study Finds Expanding Voting Rights Can Reduce Violence (10/17/2022) - As showcased by the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the extension of… 
How Children Can Contribute To Build Better Democracies (9/29/2022) - Children are often left out in discussions on participative democracy. Yet, and interestingly so, can… 
Poll: Most Favor Maximum Age Limits For Elected Officials (9/15/2022) - Most Americans want max age limits for elected officials, and far more think more young… 
Algorithmic Approach To Legislative Apportionment And Redistricting (9/15/2022) - Recent debates on the composition of the apportionment basis have brought up fresh concerns about… 
Two Studies On Political Party Roles In Election Certification (9/8/2022) - The exploitation of our present system by parties and extremists threatens the integrity of elections,… 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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How To Properly Vet Poll Workers (9/30/2022) - Attention has been paid to rogue election administrators, but election results can also be manipulated… 
How The Midterms Could Weaken U.S. Election Security (9/11/2022) - "Big Lie" supporters are running for positions that would enable them to allow unauthorized outsiders… 
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… Voting-system Firms Battle Right-Wing Rage Against The Machines (11/14/2022) - Due to high cost of eradicating misinformation, voting machine pending makers are obliged to boost… 
The Uncomplicated Reason Brazil Can Count Its Ballots So Quickly (11/8/2022) - America's democracy appears to fall short of Brazil's where the results of the most recent… 
The Voting Machine Hacking Threat You Haven’t Heard About (10/15/2022) - A largely overlooked hacking target that could help those who want to sow doubt about… 
Explainer – How America Casts And Counts Its Votes (9/11/2022) - How Americans vote - and the equipment they use - varies widely, and some methods… 
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… 
Google, YouTube Outline Plans For Midterm Elections (9/2/2022) - Google's YouTube has highlighted the resources at its disposal to fight political misinformation during the… 
Facebook Misses Misinformation In Brazilian Election Ads (8/18/2022) - Facebook failed to detect...election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, violates its own… 
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…