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Data and tools designed to help people vote by informing voters about registration requirements, ballot information, districts, and election dates, locations, and procedures.
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Bora
Brasília - Brasilia, Federal District, BrazilNunca foi tão fácil avaliar políticas públicas!
The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is the world’s largest online community and repository of electoral knowledge.
Seckilerin Monitorinqi Demokratiyanin Tedrisi
Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan)The main goal of EMDS is to achieve a democratic election system and formation of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan.
The purpose of the Global Democracy Initiative is to organize, train, and deploy Former Parliamentarians of Canada, Former Members of the European Parliament, and Former Members of the U.S. Congress as participants in democracy building activities such as election observation, democratic institution building, and supporting elected representatives in emerging democracies as they strive for free and transparent forms of good governance.
The Asian Network for Free Elections
105 Suthisarnwinichai Road, Huaykwang, Samsennok, Bangkok 10320 ThailandThe three sections of our work, Election Observation, Capacity Building and Campaign & Advocacy are different parts of ANFREL’s holistic approach to the promotion of democratic institutions. These divisions, while different, support one another.
The African Elections Project : your authoritative African Elections Information and Knowledge online portal, covering elections across the continent
European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO)
Citizen's Association MOST, Vancho Mickov 18b, 1000 Skopje, Republic of MacedoniaENEMO is an international organization, a network composed of 22 national election monitoring CSOs from 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including three European Union countries.
Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL)
#138, St. 122, Teuk Laak I, Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
Centre for Monitoring Election Violence
Sri LankaCMEV was formed in 1997 by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Coalition Against Political Violence as an independent and non-partisan organisation to monitor the incidence of election related violence.
We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.
A set of recommendations for infrastructure improvements based on a series of interviews with and stories collected from local election officials
Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle
GigaTurnip
KyrgyzstanПриложение позволяет создавать и заполнять формы для сообщения о нарушениях на выборах. Crowdsourced election monitoring app for iOS and Android
Vote Rookie
GermanyVote Rookie ist eine überparteiliche Demokratie Plattform. Wir unterstützen junge Menschen bei der Teilhabe an Politik und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement.
Mchaguzi
KenyaMchaguzi is an independent web-based, voter-centred electoral intelligence toolkit designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to enhance citizen participation and engagement before, during and after the 2022 Kenyan General Election.
Uchaguzi 2022
KenyaElection monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022
Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period
South AfricaSouth Africa’s “Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period” (in draft form as of July 2020) is aimed at “every registered party and every candidate” with additional obligations under the code for how those parties and candidates must take appropriate recourse against any member, representative or supporter of that party or candidate who behaves in violation of the code.
Fato ou Fake
Brazil (Brasil)Fato ou Fake is a news literacy project that vetted more than 700 pieces of information ahead of the elections.
Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements
Netherlands (the)This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.
Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.
An initiative designed to help political parties become more inclusive and representative through an assessment that gauges men and women's perceptions of women in leadership, the types of social norms held by members of parties, and the individual, institutional and socio-cultural barriers to gender equality.
This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.
A live dashboard analyzing the top German candidate's presence on multiple social media platforms.
"Pledge signed by political parties/individuals committing to transparency and preserving election integrity by avoiding disinformation and attacks by third parties." - Counteringdisinformation.org
Digital Ethical Pact
PanamaPanama's Digital Ethical Pact is an agreement where signatories pledge to follow the following: 1. Collaborate with the Electoral Tribunal so that the electoral ban is respected and electoral campaign is only carried out during the permitted periods of 45 days before the internal elections of the political parties and 60 days before the general elections.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.
Regional Elections Administration and Political Processes Strengthening Program (REAPPS) I and II in Europe
Prague, CzechiaGoal is to promote cross-border learning and networking on a wide range of existing initiatives and to develop new capacity in political participation, government transparency and election administration.
Real 411
South AfricaReal411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.
The roundtable highlights the current state of social media used by political actors ahead of the elections, seeking to understand and foresight how social media will impact the political campaign, and how to better protect the integrity of the campaign.
Argentina's Ethical Digital Commitment
Buenos Aires"Pledge signed by political parties and technology/social network companies committing to avoiding fake news and mechanisms of disinformation that may affect upcoming elections." - Countering Disinfo
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
Organized an e-conference for over 150 women candidates for elected office in Uganda, with a focus on navigating social barriers to political participation, including misinformation and cyberbullying.
MOE Election Observation
ColombiaThe Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.
Draw Congress
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USABy the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.
Part of the Data Detox Kit
Election Official Stories
United States of America (the)We share stories from election officials doing fantastic work.
From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.
AP provides tech companies with election updates via a proprietary API that tech companies can plug into with a subscription to answer voice search queries, among others.
Tiszta Szavazás
Hungary (Magyarország)API access for the data of Hungarian ballot-offices, the candidates and results
Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.
Ballot Image Audit Tool
1150 O ST. Greeley, CO 80631This tool allows the public to view, sort, filter, and download ballot images from the 2021 Coordinated Election, permitting an extra level of election transparency from the comfort and safety of their home.
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VoteAmerica
San FranciscoVoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.
The Alliance is a nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.
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