Alex Hardy is a Royal Leverhulme funded PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London. Alex’s research is interdisciplinary, exploring aspects of security and e-governance. His wider research interests include post Soviet politics and security. Alex has spent around two years of the project living in Estonia while working as a visiting fellow at the University of Tartu.
Latest posts by Alex Hardy
‘The Art of the Steal?': Russia’s online voting problem
Online voting in an increasingly autocratic Russia means election results should be treated with increased scepticism, not presented as regime approval.
Russia scales up electronic voting for key referendum, but misses security issues
As Russia goes to the polls this week in a constitutional referendum, several regions will be voting online. But the new digital voting system has some serious shortcomings.