The Election Defense Alliance (EDA) was founded in July 2006 by Sally Castleman, Jonathan Simon, and Dan Ashby. It was established as a national coordinating body to promote and support citizen
activism
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make Social change, changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from ...
at the local and state level, intending to restore integrity and public accountability to the electoral processes of the United States and its territories. It is intended as a forum in which
election integrity work can be sponsored and monitored, and a vehicle for the general public to report
election fraud
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share o ...
, in all of its forms.
EDA was a sponsored project of the International Humanities Center (IHC), which closed in 2012.
References
External links
Election Defense Alliance Website
Organizations established in 2006
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