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Building Resilience Against Election Influence Operations
IFES in partnership with ASD at the German Marshall Fund provides timely insights and recommendations for how countries can bolster their resilience against the rising scale and sophistication of election disinformation.
April 23, 2024
News & Updates
Feature
Disinformation and Social Media in Elections: A Conversation with Justice José Luis Vargas Valdez
Social media offers tangible benefits to democratic discourse but also presents considerable challenges. On February 28, IFES held an event on Capitol Hill focused on emerging approaches to disinformation and social media in elections.
News & Updates
Feature
IFES President and CEO On Technology in Elections
In August, the Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE), the Mexican elections commission, hosted a four-day conference to explore key electoral topics, including challenges in the administration and organization of elections; political and media rights in elections; and access to electoral justice. The conference brought together election experts, practitioners and academics from all over the world as well as government officials. The event took place in Morelia, Mexico.
Election Material
Civic Education Material
Programa Estrategico de Educacion Civica 2005-2010
“Strategic Program of Education” is a civic education program description book, available in Spanish, issued in 2005 by the Federal Electoral Institute in Mexico. The book describes the theory of the civic education program and its contextual framework. The program defines the principles and the objectives to be achieved for the realization of the educational politics program, throughout the period of 2005-2010, that would encourage and promote the civic participation of all Mexican people.
Election Material
Civic Education Material
DemoMemoria
“Demo Memory” is an informative leaflet, available in Spanish, believed to be issued in 2002 by the Electoral Institute of the Federal District of Mexico and intended to explain to the Mexican youth the implications of democracy-related concepts. Additionally, the leaflet contains a glossary and an adaptation of the “MEMORAMA” game.
Election Material
Civic Education Material
Contienda Electoral : El Financiamiento como reto para la Democracia
“Electoral Contests: Funding as a Challenge for Democracy” is an informative bulletin, available in both Spanish and English, published in 2002 by the “Elecciones Mexico” newsletter in Mexico. The bulletin includes articles on the financing of the political parties, funding as a challenge for democracy, transparent funding of political campaigns, the legitimacy of the Canadian federal electoral financing and articles on money and politics in Latin America and Great Britain .
Election Material
Civic Education Material
Electoral Management Bodies as Institutions of Governance
“Electoral Management Bodies as Institutions of Governance,” is the lead article from the November 2000- April 2001 edition of “Elecciones Mexico.” The piece discusses the new process of electoral management as a new tool of the electoral and democratic processes. Specifcally, the work of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems’ (IFES) in this field is highlighted. This edition of the publication also contains an article on electronic vote counting.