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Five categories, never conflated

The recorded numbers do not reflect the votes cast.

Unequal media access, repression, illegal financing, vote buying, misuse of state resources.

Cyberattacks, hack-and-leak, covert foreign financing, impersonation of media or institutions by a foreign state or proxy.

Troll farms, fake local-media networks, covert political ads, coordinated inauthentic amplification — foreign or domestic.

Patterns in the data worth examining — explicitly not proof of fraud.

A finding sits in exactly one category. Colors and icons carry the same meaning everywhere on the site.

From the case files

The clearest test of a trustworthy record is whether it can hold both statements at once.

Process violationsConfirmed
The Constitutional Court found the 2019 election marred by widespread, systematic and grave irregularities — tally sheets corrected with Tippex, duplicate sheets, and altered results — held that the MEC had failed in its constitutional duties, annulled the presidential result and ordered a fresh election. The Supreme Court upheld the annulment in full on 8 May 2020.
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Result falsificationAlleged
Mutharika and the DPP alleged the 2020 fresh election was itself stolen — calling it the worst-run election in Malawi's history and citing violence and intimidation against their monitors — and sought its annulment. No court or observer mission substantiated a falsified count; the rerun was broadly assessed as credible and its result stood.
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Method