Verify Election Information
| Verify a Claim about Our Elections | https://www.politifact.com/ | |
| Verify Voting instructions: Your state’s secretary of state website (make sure it ends with .gov) | https://www.e-secretaryofstate.com/ | |
| Find out who represents you | https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative | |
| See pending voting and elections legislation in states | https://tracker.votingrightslab.org/pending/search | |
| Election Date Calendar- | https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar | |
| Verify how voting works in your county | https://verifiedvoting.org |
Wondering what to do when you encounter potential election misinformation?
First step: Be cautious when clicking on posts that seem to contain misinformation. Social media algorithms reward engagement (such as likes, comments, shares, and views) regardless of intent, which can increase the visibility of false information.
Why is it important to take action to verify election information?
- Social media platforms allocate fewer resources to ensure the accuracy and credibility of information in non-English languages.
- Public perception of elections and their trustworthiness largely depends on election disinformation, which can affect legislation and democratic norms in the long term.
- With the advent of AI, it is extremely easy to produce a fake video of a candidate spreading false information about voting times, locations, and methods. Additionally, as more people rely on ChatGPT and other AI sources for voting information, the likelihood of receiving inaccurate data increases. For example, there have been cases where images of protests and marches were spread to deter voters by making them believe these images depicted long lines outside polling stations.
- A major source of election disinformation also involves repurposing images from their original context to create uncertainty around the voting process.
Second step: Report misleading content to our public tipline.
Over 4,600 pieces of problematic content have already been submitted to our tiplines.
Types of election disinformation include:
Incorrect voting results/ deadlines/ instructions
Conspiracy theories about the election processes
Falsified data/ images/ recordings
By following these steps, you can help reduce the spread of false information and play your role in strengthening our democracy!
Are you interested in learning more about what disinformation we can expect in 2024 and how we can protect voters from the growing threat of disinformation?
Read our new Storm Watch Report.
