Advocacy

  • ODIHR Election Observation Mission

    Unhack Democracy successfully advocated for a full ODIHR Election Observation Mission ahead of the Hungarian parliamentary elections in spring 2022. 

    Read our briefing document with our key findings and arguments for a full mission!

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  • Joint statement to OSCE States

    Read our joint statement to OSCE States: European election observers and Hungarian civil society organisations call on EU Member State governments to honour OSCE ODIHR’s recommendations and second election observers to Hungary for the parliamentary elections on April 3.


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  • Europe’s Electoral Integrity Must Be Defended from Internal Threat

    Since 2020, Unhack Democracy has been working with the international community to put greater emphasis on election observation. Read our forward 5 key policy recommendations put forward with article along with The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS): Europe’s Electoral Integrity Must Be Defended from Internal Threat

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E-learning

Based on Unhack Democracy’s research and over a thousand testimonies from poll workers gathered across four elections in Hungary, we have developed an interactive e-learning platform with practical examples to train polling station commission members for the 2022 parliamentary and 2024 European Parliamentary and local elections.

Votes Without Borders

Led by Romanian investigative journalism outlet Átlátszó Erdély (Transylvania), Votes without Borders investigated the voting registration process of Hungarians living in neighbouring countries and monitored the election campaign in these communities. Unhack Democracy provided ongoing supervision to journalists working on the project. The team analysed the government's funding of the campaign aimed at diaspora voters, the voter registration process, the campaign across social media and traditional media outlets, the election itself, and, most importantly, irregularities. The project also provided information to voters about their rights and responsibilities and secured an online platform where voters could safely report irregularities.

All we know and assume about the dumped mail ballots

A mysterious, cautious source carefully deleting his digital tracks informed the press about mail ballots having been thrown out near Târgu Mureș. The deeper we dug, the fishier the story became.

CEU Open University Course

Developed and taught by co-founders of Unhack and Professor Gabor Toka, this pioneering course: “Safeguarding Electoral Integrity in Hungary” at CEU’s István Bibó Open University explored the following questions: How can election observation and vote counting correct the failures of the electoral system? The second part was based on Unhack Democracy’s research and capacity building projects whose primary goal was to improve electoral integrity across the region.