Editing Election (section)

===Tampering with mechanisms===
{{see also|Election audit|Electoral fraud|Electoral integrity|Certification of voting machines |Secret ballot|Voter impersonation|Voter ID laws|Voter suppression}}

This can include falsifying voter instructions,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sanmateocourt.org/documents/grand_jury/2018/elections.pdf|title=Security of Election Announcements|last= San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury|date=24 July 2019|publisher=Superior Court of California|access-date=20 August 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820074448/https://www.sanmateocourt.org/documents/grand_jury/2018/elections.pdf |archive-date= 20 August 2019 }}</ref>
violation of the [[secret ballot]], [[ballot stuffing]], tampering with voting machines,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zetter |first=Kim |date=26 September 2018 |title=The Crisis of Election Security |work=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html |url-access=limited |access-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html |archive-date=1 January 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|2112081778}}}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
destruction of legitimately cast ballots,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/candidate-says-new-congressional-election-warranted-in-north-carolina/2019/02/21/acae4482-35e0-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html|title=N.C. board declares a new election in contested House race after the GOP candidate admitted he was mistaken in his testimony|last=Gardner|first=Amy|date=21 February 2019|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=20 August 2019}}</ref>
[[voter suppression]], voter registration fraud, failure to validate voter residency, fraudulent tabulation of results, and use of physical force or verbal intimation at polling places. Other examples include persuading candidates not to run, such as through blackmailing, bribery, intimidation or physical violence.