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Election Integrity & Foreign Influence Database

The truth about elections, held to a single standard.

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

2016

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Austria 2016 Presidential Election

The Constitutional Court annulled the run-off over unlawful handling of postal ballots — expressly finding no fraud and no proof the outcome was altered. The re-run returned the same winner. This is the clearest case of a process violation that is not falsification.

Process violationsStatistical anomalies

4 established · 3 not established

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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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Venezuela 2024 Presidential Election

What is established

Process violationsConfirmed
The CNE failed to publish disaggregated results as Venezuelan law requires and cancelled scheduled audits; the government-aligned Supreme Court (TSJ) then validated the announced result without a transparent review of polling-station data. The UN Fact-Finding Mission found the results-management process fell below basic transparency and integrity standards.
Sources:1 2
Result falsificationCorroborated
The Carter Center verified that the opposition-published actas — covering 81.7% of polling stations and showing González with 67% to Maduro's 30% — carry the security features of genuine CNE tally sheets, and that the CNE's announced result is statistically implausible against them. It described the announced outcome as apparent falsification and the election as one that cannot be considered democratic.
Sources:1 2

What is not established

Result falsificationContested
The government claimed the opposition's actas were forged and blamed a cyberattack for its failure to publish results. It produced no evidence for either claim, and the TSJ's validation cited no polling-station data; the Carter Center found the actas genuine and the announced figures statistically impossible.
Sources:1 2

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