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 (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in Social change, social, Political campaign, political, economic or Natural environment, environmental reform with the desire to make Social change, changes i ...

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 of ...

, in all of its forms. EDA was a sponsored project of the International Humanities Center (IHC), which closed in 2012.

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Election Defense Alliance Website
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