Assessing Electoral Fraud in New Democracies: Refining the Vocabulary Chad Vickery and Erica Shein IFES White Paper May 2012

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Assessing Electoral Fraud in New Democracies: Refining the Vocabulary

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Description: IFES White Paper intended to raise attention about the scourge of fraud that is undermining electoral processes in countries around the world, and especially its effects on transitional countries. It seeks to provide stakeholders with some of the tools they need to detect, deter and mitigate fraud outcomes. A key component of that effort is to ensure that the election community has a clear and practical framework for understanding the issues. In that spirit, this paper takes a step back, the third in the series, and addresses lingering concerns about the definition for electoral fraud. It proposes segmenting the universe of offenses and crimes undermining elections into three main categories: electoral fraud, electoral malpractice and systemic manipulation.

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