Hacking Democracy: Cybersecurity and Global Election Interference
Journal: ResearchWorks at the University of Washington (University of Washington)
Year: 2018

As the global community enters a new digital era, the increase of social connectivity, the proliferation of online hostile actors, and the deliberate obfuscation of media pose new challenges to democratic processes around the world. In this project, we examine the global impact of Internet-based election interference on democratic processes through a survey of 12 democratic countries with elections within the past five years. We use this information to derive policy recommendations for the US go