Rigging Elections for Fun and Profit Bibliography

Three Open Letters:

  • Buell, Duncan. Et Al. to Vice President Harris, November 13, 2024. https://freespeechforpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/letter-to-vp-harris-111324.pdf
  • Spoonamore, Stephen. “Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024”, November 15, 2024. https://substack.com/home/post/p-151721941
  • Lutz, Raymond. to The Honorable Attorney General Merrick Garland, November 25, 2024. https://copswiki.org/w/pub/Common/M2028/Request%20for%20DOJ%20Investigation%20into%20the%20Integrity%20of%20the%202024%20Presidential%20Election.pdf

Election Security:

  • Alvarez, Michael and Thad Hall. “Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promises of Digital Democracy”. Princeton University Press. 2010.
  • Campbell, Tracy. “Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition—1742-2004”. Carroll & Graf. 2005.
  • Collier, Victoria. “How to Rig an Election”. Harper’s Magazine. November 2012. https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/
  • Elving, Ron. “The Florida Recount Of 2000: A Nightmare That Goes On Haunting”. NPR. November 12, 2018. https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/666812854/the-florida-recount-of-2000-a-nightmare-that-goes-on-haunting
  • Halderman, Alex. “Securing Digital Democracy”. Corsera. 2016. https://www.coursera.org/learn/digital-democracy/home
  • Jones, Douglas and Barbara Simons. “Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?” University of Chicago Press. 2012.
  • Mackey, Tim. “Weighing the Pros and Cons of Open Sourcing Election Software”. Black Duck. March 21, 2018. https://www.blackduck.com/blog/pros-cons-open-sourcing-election-software.html
  • Mestel, Spencer. “Can Open Source Voting Machines Boost Trust in Elections?”. GovTech. March 8, 2024. https://www.govtech.com/civic/can-open-source-voting-machines-boost-trust-in-elections
  • MIT Election Lab. “Voting Technology”. Updated April 21, 2023. https://electionlab.mit.edu/research/voting-technology
  • National Conference of State Legislators. “Risk-Limiting Audits”. Updated September 6, 2024. https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/risk-limiting-audits
  • Pattison-Gordon Jule. “Are Open Source Elections More Secure?” GovTech. February 16, 2023. https://www.govtech.com/elections/are-open-source-elections-more-secure-part-1
  • Piper, Kelsey. “A hack nearly gained access to millions of computers. Here’s what we should learn from this”. Vox. April 12, 2024. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24127433/linux-hack-cyberattack-computer-security-internet-open-source-software
  • Verified Voting. “Summary of the Problem with Electronic Voting”. June, 2005. https://verifiedvoting.org/publication/summary-of-the-problem-with-electronic-voting/

Election Fraud:

  • Brown, Emma, Et Al. “Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal”. The Washington Post. August 15, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/15/sidney-powell-coffee-county-sullivan-strickler/
  • Brown, Emma and Jon Swaine. “Inside the secretive effort by Trump allies to access voting machines.” The Washington Post. October 28, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/10/28/coffee-county-georgia-voting-trump/
  • Brumback, Kate. ”Video fills in details on alleged Ga. election system breach”. Associated Press. September 6, 2022. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-donald-trump-voting-92c0ace71d7bee6151dd33938688371e
  • Cassidy, Christina and James Anderson. “Colorado elections clerk indicted in voting system breach”. Associated Press. March 9, 2022. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-steve-bannon-voting-donald-trump-elections-445316b2dda05dd21855e009411b3f21
  • Donald, Rachel. “Cyber-Security Experts Warn Election Was Hacked”. Planet Critical. November 19, 2024. https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
  • Duda, Jeremy. “Group led by ‘kraken’ lawyer Sidney Powell hired the firm recounting AZ’s election to probe election in Fulton Co.” Pennsylvania Capital-Star. May 24, 2021 https://penncapital-star.com/government-politics/group-led-by-kraken-lawyer-sidney-powell-hired-the-firm-recounting-azs-election-to-probe-a-pa-election/
  • Duda, Jeremy. “Wake Technology Services audited a Pennsylvania election as part of the #StopTheSteal movement”. Arizona Mirror. May 21, 2021. https://azmirror.com/2021/05/21/wake-technology-services-audited-a-pennsylvania-election-as-part-of-the-stopthesteal-movement/
  • Fortinsky, Sarah. “Musk-founded PAC says it will give $47 for every swing-state voter referral who signs petition”. The Hill. October 7, 2024. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4919368-elon-musk-petition-swing-states/
  • Goldin, Melissa. “FACT FOCUS: Election officials knock down Starlink vote rigging conspiracy theories”. Associated Press, November 12, 2024. https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-election-starlink-musk-steal-trump-38757341656d4f44243076d6356cb68b
  • Ioanes, Ellen. “Elon Musk says he’s giving away $1 million a day to voters. Is that legal?”. Vox. November 4, 2024. https://www.vox.com/politics/378912/musk-trump-voting-contest-million-dollars-swing-state-lottery-pennsylvania
  • Keefe, Eliza. “Musk’s Starlink Was Not Connected to Vote Tabulation, Contrary to Online Claims”. Factcheck.org. November 19, 2024. https://www.factcheck.org/2024/11/musks-starlink-was-not-connected-to-vote-tabulation-contrary-to-online-claims/
  • McCarthy, Bill. “Elon Musk’s Starlink falsely accused of rigging US election”. AFP. November 13, 2024. https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36MC7PJ
  • Monahan, Kevin, Cynthia McFadden, and Didi Martinez. “’Online and vulnerable’: Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet.” NBC News. January 10, 2020. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436
  • Riccardi, Nicholas. “Big voter turnout this year benefited Republicans, contradicting conventional political wisdom”. Associated Press. November 17, 2024. https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-voter-turnout-republicans-trump-harris-7ef18c115c8e1e76210820e0146bc3a5
  • SMART Elections. “Drop-off Factor Raises Questions About 2024 Election”. December 17, 2024. https://smartelections.us/2024-election-update
  • Stark, Philip. “When Audits and Recounts Distract from Election Integrity: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election in Georgia”. in Proceedings of E-Vote-ID 2024.
  • Tenbarge, Kat and Rudy Chinchilla. “Elon Musk announces $1M giveaway for voters who sign petition in battleground states”. NBC News. October 18, 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-raises-payment-offer-100-voters-sign-petition-rcna176075
  • Thompson, Stuart, Kaleigh Rogers, and Steven Myers. “These Voters Want to ‘Stop the Steal.’ Top Democrats Aren’t Interested.” The New York Times. December 18, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/technology/democrats-election-denial-trump.html

Disinformation:

  • Al Jazeera. “Profile: Who are Ukraine’s far-right Azov regiment?”. March 1, 2022. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment
  • American Psychological Association. “What psychological factors make people susceptible to believe and act on misinformation?”. March 1, 2021. https://www.apa.org/topics/journalism-facts/misinformation-belief-action
  • Asch, Solomon. “Effects of Group Pressure upon the Modification and Distortion of Judgments.” In Groups, Leadership and Men: Research in Human Relations, edited by Harold Guetzkow, 222–236. Oxford: Carnegie Press. 1951.
  • Barry, Ellen. “How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step”. The New York Times. September 19, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/womens-march-russia-trump.html
  • Center for an Informed Public. “Conspiracy theory spreading on social media about Starlink interfering with election results”. University of Washington. November 18, 2024. https://www.cip.uw.edu/2024/11/18/conspiracy-theory-starlink-election-results/
  • Center for an Informed Public. “Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking”. University of Washington. December 6, 2023. https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird/
  • Hao, Karen. “Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows”. Technology Review. September 16, 2021. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/
  • John, Tara. “A far-right battalion has a key role in Ukraine’s resistance. Its neo-Nazi history has been exploited by Putin”. CNN. March 30, 2022. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-azov-movement-far-right-intl-cmd/index.html
  • Kelly, Michael. “Understanding Russian Disinformation and How the Joint Force Can Address It”. US Army War College Publications. May 29, 2024. https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/News/Display/Article/3789933/understanding-russian-disinformation-and-how-the-joint-force-can-address-it/
  • O’Connor, Cailin and James Weatherall. “The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread”. Yale University Press. 2019.
  • WalkandTalkk. “You’re being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they’re making you more hateful and depressed”. Reddit. December, 2024. https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1gouvit/youre_being_targeted_by_disinformation_networks/