This topic covers the many matters related to the standards and challenges of electoral integrity. Democratic principles, measures and mechanism are considered at each stage of the election administration, including electoral management, voting procedure, boundary delimitation, voter education and registration, party/candidate registration, campaigns, media, political financing, vote counting, as well as enforcement.
The topic area of Electoral Integrity was originally written by Ms. Sue Nelson in 1997. Ms. Agnieszka Dobrzynska updated and expanded the topic.
Agnieszka Dobrzynska is a postdoctoral fellow with the Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies at the Université de Montréal. Her Ph.D. thesis (Université de Montréal, 2002) focused on the role of the media in electoral campaigns. Her research interests include elections and voting behaviour, public opinion, media coverage of politics, electoral systems and methodology. Her main postdoctoral project examines the impact of the media coverage on political engagement and cynicism in Canada.
Sue Nelson has close to twenty-five years of experience managing international assistance projects and democracy and governance programs and is currently an independent consultant advising on governance, integrity, electoral assistance and electoral observation matters.
IFES Senior Program Specialist, Jeffrey Carlson, coordinated a team of practitioners from the New York City Campaign Finance Board -Executive Director Nicole Gordon, Tara Malloy, and Tanya Domi- and an independent expert, Bob Dahl. Thanks to the financial contributions of USAID, this team provided valuable contributions in the area of political finance as they relate to the values and principles that are important to election integrity.
