Our Elections Integrity Program collects the expertise of our community of integrity professionals to help understand the impact the social media platforms have on elections and protect democratic elections around the world.

• Voting and elections

Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.

• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

During our four-week MOOC, you will learn about and explore the fascinating and ever-evolving world of technology and democracy, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression in elections.

• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Voting and elections

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

Scrutinizing what steps platforms have taken to protect election integrity globally

• reports
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections

The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membership in professional associations, was repurposed to spread Fidesz’s campaign messages.

• reports

• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy
• Reports

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The African Elections Project : your authoritative African Elections Information and Knowledge online portal, covering elections across the continent

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The 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.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

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.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.

• Gender Equality
• reports

• Voting and elections
• Media and social media analysis
• Reports

A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Goal 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.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

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.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

We used a computer program to talk to young people on the dating app about the U.K. election. The results were amazing.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Firefox EU Elections Toolkit helps you to prevent pre-vote online manipulation

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

The repository contains maps of Mexican districts used to elect representatives to various offices and code for data systematization and analysis. The primary source are shapefiles publicly distributed by INE (formerly IFE, Mexico's national election board, page here). Data in this repo is prepared for mapping and statistical analysis.

• 2024 elections

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Open candidate information for UK elections covering all 2,015 areas

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic data APIs

Find out where to vote, and absentee voting, and more, in Slovenia's 2024 EU elections

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Make a plan to vote
• Find your polling place

We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

• Voting and elections
• Digital participation platforms
• Citizen Engagement

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Find Out Who You Can Vote For

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Voter information portal for the 2021 Ethiopian election

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Wholly embeddable voter registration, polling place lookup, reminders, absentee, and election date tools for your organization.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Make a plan to vote

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

An 2024 election info hub and civic caravan for Romanian citizens

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Resources and data to understand and halt the growth of partisan animosity

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Polarization

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

ElectoFacts is a resource that Canadian electors can use to easily check whether information they come across about Canada's federal electoral process is true or not.

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

SeeSay2020.com was an online tool that allowed voters to report instances of misinformation, voting machine issues, polling place wait times, and more, with the goal to attract media and legal attention to verified, ongoing issues in real time.

• US Election 2020

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing

UK elections database with every district council level election and above

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Civic data APIs