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One of the hallmarks of a free and fair society is the ability to conduct apeaceful and seamless transfer of power from one leader to another.Democratically, this is measured in a citizen population's trust in theelectoral system of choosing a representative government. In view of the welldocumented issues of the 2016 US Presidential election, we conducted anin-depth analysis of the 2018 US Midterm elections looking specifically forvoter fraud or suppression. The Midterm election occurs in the middle of a 4year presidential term. For the 2018 midterms, 35 senators and all the 435seats in the House of Representatives were up for re-election, thus, everycongressional district and practically every state had a federal election. Inorder to collect election related tweets, we analyzed Twitter during the monthprior to, and the two weeks following, the November 6, 2018 election day. In atargeted analysis to detect statistical anomalies or election interference, weidentified several biases that can lead to wrong conclusions. Specifically, welooked for divergence between actual voting outcomes and instances of the#ivoted hashtag on the election day. This analysis highlighted three states ofconcern: New York, California, and Texas. We repeated our analysis discardingmalicious accounts, such as social bots. Upon further inspection and against abackdrop of collected general election-related tweets, we identified someconfounding factors, such as population bias, or bot and political ideologyinference, that can lead to false conclusions. We conclude by providing anin-depth discussion of the perils and challenges of using social media data toexplore questions about election manipulation.

Perils and Challenges of Social Media and Election Manipulation Analysis: The 2018 US Midterms