2024, the year of elections

Between November 1, 2022, and August 31, 2023, Cloudflare protected various groups working to promote democracy worldwide, including political campaigns, organizations that work on a range of topics related to voting rights, election management bodies, and others. During this period, Cloudflare mitigated a combined total of over 46 million threats to the websites and systems of these groups. We also saw a significant increase in traffic during election times and a general trend of more requests being blocked by our WAF than due to DDoS attacks. In 2023, we continued to work with election groups globally through partnerships such as Cloudflare for Campaigns, Project Galileo, and IFES. We are committed to ensuring that all groups working to promote democracy around the world have the tools they need to stay secure online.