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The project

About VoteRights

VoteRights.org documents how elections around the world are run, attacked, and defended — with evidence, not outrage.

62
Elections documented
20
Influence operations
10
Narratives tracked
395
Archived sources

What we are

An evidence database, a published methodology, an archive, and a teaching resource — now also a forward-looking calendar. We separate proven result falsification from process violations, foreign interference, information operations, and mere statistical anomaly, because conflating them is how credibility dies. Election Watch applies the same five categories to votes that have not happened yet, as open questions rather than predictions.

What we are not

We are not a campaign, a partisan outlet, a false-balance machine, or a rumor amplifier. We publish what the evidence supports, at the confidence the evidence supports — and we say plainly when a famous claim is false. Listing an upcoming election is not a forecast that anything improper will occur.

Core principles

1Separation of categories. Falsification, process violations, interference, information operations, and anomalies are never mixed.
2Confidence tiers on everything. Every finding is labeled by how strong the evidence is, and the standard for each tier is public.
3Primary sources, archived. Every fact traces to a citable source; every source gets an archive link. No source, no claim.
4Symmetric standards. The same taxonomy and evidence bar applies to every country, party, and government.
5Every edit is public. The content is version-controlled; the full edit history is the audit trail.

Five confidence tiers

Confirmed

Established by an authoritative finding.

Corroborated

Multiple credible sources agree; no official finding yet.

Alleged

A single credible source or an ongoing investigation.

Contested

Credible evidence points in conflicting directions.

Debunked

Authoritatively refuted.

Independence & anonymity

This project is run independently and, for security reasons, pseudonymously — it documents state-linked influence operations. That choice is about protecting the people doing the work, not about hiding accountability: the method is transparent, the sources are public, and every change is recorded.