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Ballotpedia:Reporting vote fraud news
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There are many stories in the news that cover vote fraud. Here you'll find the best way to write about them on Ballotpedia.
Research
If you'd like to do continuous coverage of vote fraud, rather than stumbling on the occasional article, it is recommended that you set up an RSS feed. Some common ones are Google alerts, Google reader (for blogs) or creating an I-Google page that searches through Google News articles.
Common Key words
- STATE vote fraud
- STATE election protection
- Voter registration fraud
- Electronic voting virus (or hacked)
Title and intro
Make sure that the title to your article is as specific as possible. This means including the state, type of fraud and the general meaning of the article.
- Ex. Wisconsin watchdog group catches absentee voter fraud
During the introduction of the article make sure to include these three elements: date, location, and a "definition like" introduction sentence. Below is an example:
October 5, 2008
Cook County, Illinois -- In the 2008 election is was discovered by the Chicago watchdog group that the Democratic Party had been registering people to vote that had been dead from 1972. The Republican Party also registered dead people, though from 1993.
Break it down
Make sure you include a subsection to the article where you break down what the article is discussing. Make sure you are including references in this section. If you are citing only one source you can use a reference tage like the one below:
- <ref name="Shortcut">[website url, ''Source'', Title, Date]</ref>
- To use the same source later simply type <ref name="Shortcut" />
Close the article
Make sure you include the following sections in the closing of the article:
- See also: This should lead back to more general articles. For example, the state news page.
- Ex. [[STATE vote fraud news archive]]
- References: This will allocate all your sources for the story.
- The state template: Add this by typing {{STATE vote fraud}}
Categories
The most important part of the article are the following categories will sort your news article into news feeds on the Voter Integrity Project. This will make sure that the stories are correctly archived.
Categories
- For major stories: [[Category:Vote fraud news]]
- For state stories: [[Category:STATE vote fraud news]]
- By date: [[Category:MONTH YEAR]]
- By topic:
- [[Category:Absentee vote fraud news]]
- [[Category:Early voting fraud news]]
- [[Category:Felon vote fraud news]]
- [[Category:Dead people voting news]]
- [[Category:Voter purging and caging news]]
- [[Category:Voter registration fraud news]]
- [[Category:Electronic voting fraud news]]
- [[Category:Recount news]]
- [[Category:RNC news]]
- [[Category:DNC news]]
- [[Category:McCain campaign news]]
- [[Category:Obama campaign news]]
News feeds
News feeds have been created to address many of the common topics. Feel free to add a feed to your article by typing {{FEED NAME}} at the beginning of your article.
Some feeds include:
- {{Absentee voting news feed}}
- {{Early voting fraud news}}
- {{Felon vote fraud news}}
- {{Dead people voting news feed}}
- {{Voter caging and purging news}}
- {{Voter registration fraud news}}
- {{Electronic voting news}}
- {{RNC news}}
- {{DNC news}}
- {{Obama campaign feed}}
- {{McCain campaign feed}}
- {{Recount news}}
