Hidden in plain sight: detecting electoral fraud using statutory results

• In Event: Electoral Integrity and Election Violence in Africa

Brief Overview

Do electoral irregularities indicate fraud, or are they simply growing pains in new democracies? We examine this using statutory forms from Kenya’s 2017 presidential election and tools from computer vision and machine learning.

Authors

• Andy Harris, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Christian Arnold, Cardiff University

• Zach Warner, Cardiff University