by gmoke
Tue Sep 19th, 2017 at 04:35:45 PM EST
Always useful to start with A Guide to Crap Detection Resources
https:/docs.google.com/document/d/163G79vq-mFWjIqMb9AzYGbr5Y8YMGcpbSzJRutO8tpw
Then to look at what just happened. The Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School tracked the 2016 election and published what they found.
Media Coverage of the 2016 Election
https:/shorensteincenter.org/research-media-coverage-2016-election
Combatting Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action
https:/shorensteincenter.org/combating-fake-news-agenda-for-research
Exploring the Role of Algorithms in Online Harmful Speech
https:/shorensteincenter.org/exploring-role-algorithms-online-harmful-speech
Another academic report from Harvard comes from the Berkman Klein Center at the Law School
Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/99981
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan, transatlantic initiative housed at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), is studying how foreign state and other actors are undermining democracy around the world and developing tools to cope.
http://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org
There is also the AltRight Open Intelligence Initiative
https:/wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/AltRightOpenIntelligenceInitiative
https:qz.com/1056319/what-is-the-alt-right-a-linguistic-data-analysis-of-3-billion-reddit-comments
-shows-a-disparate-group-that-is-quickly-uniting
and the Disinformation Dashboard
http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org
Election Protection (http://www.866ourvote.org/) does just that and working down their list of partners is impressive (http://www.866ourvote.org/partners)
There is also the National Election Defense Coalition
https:/www.electiondefense.org
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project provides tools for election professionals at
https:/vote.caltech.edu and http://web.mit.edu/vtp/
The Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG)
a small Boston-based team of mathematicians has taken on the mission to study applications of geometry and computing to U.S. redistricting, believing that gerrymandering of all kinds is a fundamental threat to our democracy.
https:sites.tufts.edu/gerrymandr
Gerrymandering Resources
https:/sites.tufts.edu/gerrymandr/resources
The Brennan Center (https:/www.brennancenter.org) is also deep into these issues. Their 2017 Voting Laws Roundup reports there are more restrictive laws than in 2015 and 2016 combined
https:www.brennancenter.org/analysis/voting-laws-roundup-2017
They also have a report on Securing Elections from Foreign Interference
https:
www.brennancenter.org/publication/securing-elections-foreign-interference
and another on other threats to American elections voters should know about
https:www.brennancenter.org/blog/threat-american-elections-you-don't-know-about-should
Ed Felton of Freedom to Tinker shares his thoughts on the lessons of 2016 for USA election security
https:
freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/06/19/lessons-of-2016-for-u-s-election-security
Emptywheel, Marcy Wheeler, who thinks hard and clear on these kinds of issues, offers Democrats a plan for voter protection at
https:/www.emptywheel.net/2017/06/30/democrats-need-a-plan-for-national-voter-protection
"This is an opportunity to lay out standards, within the framework permitted by federalism, for real election integrity. That might include things like:
Cybersecurity standards for both machines and electoral rolls
Standards for a paper trail on voting
Rules limiting how and when [voting] purges may happen
Affirmative restrictions on identity requirements that impose financial and time costs"
One last suggestion, somebody somewhere should have a day by day plan of action from now to Election Day 2018 to protect the vote because it sure as hell appears as if the Republicans are doing their best to stop people, even eligible voters -- the "wrong," predominantly non-Republican eligible voters - from voting.