The president claims election fraud is rife in the US. Instead of protecting electoral integrity, however, he is seeking to undermine it.
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As President Trump and other Republicans cast doubt on the legitimacy of the US electoral system, other democracies offer lessons in protecting the integrity of voting systems.
A study found that viewing news of a cyberattack lowered voter trust in election integrity – even when the voter’s candidate won and even if the attack wasn’t on voting systems.
A healthy democracy has free and fair elections, robust civil liberties, multiparty competition and minimal corruption. Does Texas qualify?
Political parties sign up volunteers to observe what happens at polling places – which can improve transparency or cause problems.
While the US supports nonpartisan election observers in other countries, the practice has a low profile in this country.
No, it’s not the TV news networks. The presidential election certification process is a lot more complicated than that − and as Americans learned in 2020, it can take a long time.
Take a deep breath: Having to wait for election results means the system is working as it should, with safeguards and double-checks.
Americans might have to wait for days, weeks or months to get an accurate determination of the winner of the presidency.
Those depressing articles that say ‘This one secret, magic thing will overturn the election results and your vote won’t count’? An election law scholar calls them ‘electoral process porn.’
The people who run US elections are, according to a scholar who studies them, politically neutral professionals who uphold the law with transparency and integrity − and do it in tough circumstances.
In 2020,the #StopTheSteal movement built over months of false claims of fraud, culminating in the violence of Jan. 6, 2021. Is the same foundation being laid by local GOP activists today?
Provinces need to take action to protect municipal elections from foreign interference.
What does someone like me, who believes that the last presidential election was legitimately won by Joe Biden, say to those who think the 2020 election was stolen?
Deepfakes are on the rise in South Africa and many people seemingly struggle to spot them.
The chaos in Brazil’s capital, along with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in the US, demonstrate that there is a key human factor in election integrity.
Despite a midterm election largely free of controversy over its legitimacy, a large percentage of Americans distrust elections. And that’s dangerous for democracy.
Any behavior reasonably calculated to dissuade a person from participating in an election is intimidation.
Local election administrators work under increasingly difficult circumstances, with dwindling resources and mounting challenges.
In the Shelby v. Holder decision, a key section of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act was eliminated, thus enabling states with histories of racial discrimination to enact new voting laws.
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Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University
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Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Washington State University
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Voting Rights Researcher, Democracy Project, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University
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Deputy Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University
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C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Washington State University
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Executive Director of the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, American University