"Similarly, Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and senior fellow at the IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, has spent his sabbatical from IU this semester working as a cybersecurity research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and researching voter fraud methods in the U.S. and around the world.
Shackelford’s fellowship research has focused on five major ways to manipulate the outcome of an election electronically.
First, a hacker can shape the conversation surrounding an election by leaking information, such as what has been seen with the continual WikiLeaks release of emails that have purportedly been hacked by the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election. Similarly, the way news about an election is shared can impact voter perceptions of that election, especially if incorrect information is spread rapidly through electronic media."
- Date Published:11/08/2016
- Original Publication:The Indiana Lawyer