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 5, 2026
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Documented findings by category
Documented cases over time
2019–2027 · 52 of 65
Five categories, never conflated
The difference between these is the whole point. An attacked election is not the same as a falsified one.
The recorded numbers do not reflect the votes cast.
Process violationsUnequal media access, repression, illegal financing, vote buying, misuse of state resources.
Foreign interferenceCyberattacks, hack-and-leak, covert foreign financing, impersonation of media or institutions by a foreign state or proxy.
Information operationsTroll farms, fake local-media networks, covert political ads, coordinated inauthentic amplification — foreign or domestic.
Statistical anomaliesPatterns 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
What was proven — and what was not
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Germany 2025 Federal Election
What is established
- Information operationsConfirmed
The Storm-1516 operation spread fabricated videos and false claims around the election — targeting Robert Habeck, Annalena Baerbock and Friedrich Merz, and claiming the AfD was missing from Leipzig postal ballots and that Hamburg ballots were destroyed. In December 2025 the German government formally attributed the campaign to GRU-backed Russian actors, describing it as an attempt to influence the election and destabilise the country.
- Foreign interferenceCorroborated
The BfV stood up a dedicated election-protection taskforce and publicly warned in January 2025 of illegitimate foreign influence operations aimed at the vote, naming Storm-1516. The later government attribution placed responsibility with Russia's military intelligence, the GRU.
What is not established
- Result falsificationDebunked
Claims that the AfD was kept off postal ballots in Leipzig and that ballots were destroyed in Hamburg were fabricated as part of the attributed operation; the actual ballots listed the AfD normally. The count — hand-counted paper ballots in the presence of party agents — was challenged by no court or authority and produced no substantiated fraud finding.
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- SourceIllegal Doppelganger operation: targeting the Polish elections
- SourceConstitutional Court of Romania, Decision No. 32/2024 (annulment)
- SourceJustice Department disrupts covert Russian government-sponsored foreign malign influence operation
- SourceSix Russian GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Deployment of Destructive Malware and Other Disruptive Actions in Cyberspace
- SourceEuropean Union Election Observation Mission Ecuador 2025 final report