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President Trump has repeatedly said that mail-in voting will result in substantial voter fraud. However, the real issues are related to logistics and the support by each state.
Voting at home is safe from fraud and disease, but gives up a key advantage of in-person voting at official polling places: a secure, safe environment where everyone can cast their ballot secretly.
Social media sites aren’t the only online systems that can secretly influence people’s votes. Search engines can too and may be even more successful – and undetectable.
The ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal has generated big headlines, but consumer and marketing research have long questioned the actual effectiveness of psychographic segmentation.
Do you think you’ve set up your Facebook account so that only your friends can see your information? Think again…
President Nicolás Maduro has announced he will run for reelection, a sign that Venezuela’s authoritarian regime now has an electoral strategy for beating the opposition.
Strategies that exploit what our online data trails reveal about us can be used to fool us into thinking our desires will be met. Brexit and Trump show us how politics at the margins can be played.
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professeur en marketing, EM Lyon Business School
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Director of the Center for Political Studies, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor, EM Lyon Business School
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Ph.D. Student in Network Science, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, The College at Brockport, State University of New York
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Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
