Voter protection
Every TrustVoting article filed under Voter protection.
14 articles
Designing a voting system so coercion simply cannot work
In North Macedonia in 2025, someone was keeping a list of who showed up to vote — and that list was the whole point.
Postal voting: the convenience, and the controls that have to come with it
A judge found that ballots cast by living people were submitted in the names of the dead — and the remedy was to throw…
Vote-buying is really a verification problem in disguise
Vote-buying isn't a crime problem — it's a market problem. And every market needs proof of delivery. Kill the proof,…
The 150-year-old invention your phone camera can quietly undo
A law passed in 1872 deliberately made your vote unprovable — and your phone camera can quietly undo 150 years of that…
Envelopes of cash, and a court that called it what it was
A Philippine mayor won an election, handed out envelopes of cash to prove it, and a supreme court took his job away —…
A mayor removed from office: the postal-vote case that shook London
An English judge removed a sitting mayor from office for postal-vote fraud, bribery, and personation — and the case…
When the pressure on voters comes from the government itself
Mexico's highest electoral court threw out a governorship because the government itself was the one doing the…
Voter tracking: the spreadsheet that makes coercion actually work
Someone in North Macedonia was keeping a list of who showed up to vote — and that list is the whole reason a secrecy…
The quiet pressure that decides elections before a single vote is counted
Someone offered a voter in Kyrgyzstan money for their ballot — and the only reason it worked is that the buyer could…
In a third of polling stations, someone could see how people voted
International monitors watched more than a third of Georgia's polling stations in 2024 and found that in every one of…
Where votes have a price: what monitors keep finding in Europe
In Albania's 2021 election, OSCE monitors found vote-buying so widespread it triggered criminal investigations — and it…
How a piece of paper in a box ended a century of open bribery
A piece of paper in a sealed box ended a century of open bribery — and now a phone camera is quietly undoing everything…
The election that got thrown out: what happens when nobody can trace a ballot
Austria cancelled a presidential election — not because anyone cheated, but because nobody could prove they hadn't.…
The secret ballot is a security feature, not a courtesy
The secret ballot wasn't invented to protect your privacy — it was invented to make buying and threatening you…