Tag Archives: election

Digital Campaign Threats in Canada: Party Responses in an Age of Disinformation

This presentation reported on results from the examination of interference using disinformation through digital platforms. Its methods relied on media monitoring (both traditional media and social media) and interviews with party strategists. The aim was to detail the main instances of disinformation and other digital threats, and to analyze how each of the major parties …

Elephant in the Ballot Box: The Other Cyber Threats to Canada’s Democratic Process

The Communication Security Establishments’s “Cyber Threats to Canada’s Democratic Process” has been an important and influential series of reports providing the public with an invaluable snapshot of challenges facing our elections in the digital age. But for an agency with a predominately outward view toward foreign intelligence, the reports also noteworthy for the threats they …

Evaluating Online Registration: The Canadian Case

Our co-investigator Holly-Ann Garnett published a new article on evaluating online registration. The article evaluates online voter registration, using the case of Elections Canada’s introduction of an online voter registration service in advance of the 2015 Canadian general election. It asks two major questions: (1) What sociodemographic and attitudinal characteristics can predict online registration usage? …