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Election Integrity & Foreign Influence Database

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Elections documented, attacked, and defended — with proven falsification kept strictly apart from interference, propaganda, and mere anomaly. Every finding is tiered by the strength of its evidence.

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Database last updated August 18, 2026

Election spotlight

2019

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Malawi 2019–2020 Presidential Election and Fresh Election

Malawi's Constitutional Court annulled the declared May 2019 presidential result — a narrow Peter Mutharika win — after finding widespread, systematic and grave irregularities, including tally sheets altered with correction fluid, duplicated and substituted. The court ordered a fresh election and ruled that the presidency requires an absolute majority (50% + 1). The Supreme Court upheld the decision in May 2020, and on 23 June 2020 Lazarus Chakwera won the rerun with 58.57% — only the second court-ordered presidential rerun in Africa after Kenya in 2017, and a landmark for judicial election protection on the continent.

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Five categories, never conflated

The difference between these is the whole point. An attacked election is not the same as a falsified one.

Result falsification

The recorded numbers do not reflect the votes cast.

Process violations

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

Foreign interference

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

Information operations

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

Statistical anomalies

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

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What was proven — and what was not

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Ecuador 2025 Presidential Election

What is established

Process violationsCorroborated
Incumbency and government communication created an uneven campaign environment.
More detail
The EU mission identified advantages linked to the sitting president's office, including campaign-period presidential activity and government advertising. Its priority recommendations called for limiting government and presidential activity to current affairs or emergencies and strengthening controls on institutional communication. These imbalances matter even though observers found election-day voting and counting transparent.
Sources:1
Information operationsCorroborated
Fraud narratives circulated before and after the runoff without objective support in the records observers reviewed.
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The losing ticket alleged fraud on election night, and fraud narratives circulated through the campaign. EU and OAS observers tested the allegations against direct observation, publication systems and tally-sheet images and did not find supporting evidence.
Sources:1 2

What is not established

Result falsificationDebunked
Observer review found no evidence that questioned tally sheets were changed in the computerized result.
More detail
The OAS mission randomly selected questioned tally-sheet images and compared them with the CNE results system without finding irregularities or inconsistencies. The EU mission likewise found no objective elements supporting fraud accusations after observing both rounds and the post-election period.
Sources:1 2
Statistical anomaliesDebunked
A small number of ink-transfer cases did not amount to systematic ballot invalidation.
More detail
The OAS observed isolated cases where ink marked a folded ballot, but nearly all were resolved at the polling board in front of both tickets' representatives. It found very few affected ballots, no systematic intent and no scale capable of affecting the result.
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