Bot farms, fake news and data breaches have all been used to spread misinformation during some of the most important electoral processes in the last few years.
Can Social Media have a positive impact on elections?

Smartmatic's blog about electronic voting

Bot farms, fake news and data breaches have all been used to spread misinformation during some of the most important electoral processes in the last few years.

The revelations that Cambridge Analytica used the personal information of approximately 80 million Facebook users during recent elections has sounded alarms in the offices of election commissions from around the world.

This year’s AEA National Conference focused on Bridging the Gap “between where we are and where we need to be” for election administration in the UK.

Following the previous post on this year’s Latin American election super-cycle, there are a few common and significant challenges that the region will need to face.

Almost 350 million voters across Latin America and the Caribbean – close to three-quarters of all citizens in the region- will go to the polls this year.

2017 was packed with news and developments for our industry. We witnessed close to seventy national elections around the world.