Is it possible to detect manipulation by looking only at electoral returns? Drawing on work in
psychology, we exploit individuals' biases in generating numbers to highlight suspicious …

The proliferation of elections in even those states that are arguably anything but democratic
has given rise to a focused interest on developing methods for detecting fraud in the official …

We examine the partisan, logistic, and contextual factors affecting citizens' perceptions of
electoral integrity. Drawing on original survey data collected at different stages of the 2012 …

In this paper, we introduce an innovative method to diagnose electoral fraud using vote
counts. Specifically, we use synthetic data to develop and train a fraud detection prototype …

Assuring election integrity is essential for the legitimacy of elected representative democratic
government. Until recently, other than in-person election observation, there have been few …

Many allegations have been levelled against the electoral process of many countries across
the world by most opposition leaders, especially when they lose a presidential election (with …

A generalized distrust in Mexican local elections raises the question of whether electoral
corruption has vanished or remains a prevalent practice in the country. To answer this …

With a majority of 'Yes' votes in the Constitutional Referendum of 2017, Turkey continued its
drift towards an autocracy. By the will of the Turkish people, this referendum transferred …

Hugo Chávez dominated the Venezuelan electoral landscape since his first presidential
victory in 1998 until his death in 2013. Nobody doubts that he always received considerable …

Nowadays, a large number of countries combine formal democratic institutions with
authoritarian practices. Although in these countries the ruling elites may receive …