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Improving the UN's Election Observation Toolkit

by Mohamed Elmustafa Hammad

I think election monitoring / observation becomes harder as better AI models are released and as existing models are better utilized. The UN Department of POlitical and Peacebuilding Affairs offers electoral assistance to member states.

For the UNDPPA 'electoral observation consists of systematic collection of information on an electoral process by direct observation on the basis of established methodologies, often analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data.' ... What sort of quantitative markers could be added to this tool-kit to detect AI powered interference in elections (disinformatoin campaigns, voter fraud, etc.)? It's an underdeveloped idea but I think would make for a good project -- how can we augment the existing UN election assistant to better serve memer states?

This is inspired from another post here by Zen where they mentions an interest in 'International Institutions for AI' and a paper from Lewis Ho et al. of the same title.

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