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Consequently, to measure how democratic an information network is, we cannot use a simple yardstick like whether elections are being held regularly. In Putins Russia, in Iran, and even in North Korea elections are held like clockwork. Rather, we need to ask much more complex questions like “What mechanisms prevent the central government from rigging the elections?”