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Electoral Processes
Risk Management in Elections
Natural Hazards and Elections
Elections are complex undertakings. Regardless of where they take place, election management bodies face numerous risks in organizing them.
These risks are linked to the legal, operational, technical, political, and security aspects of electoral processes. When risks become certainties, the consequences can be serious in both well-established and transitional democracies. For more information on the topic, International IDEA has published Risk Management in Elections: A Guide for Election Management Bodies (2021), Risk Management in Elections policy paper (2016), and an Electoral Risk Management Tool (ERM Tool). For more information on our work on electoral resilience building and crisis management see Protecting Elections Project.
