Election Systems Security

Resources

CISA Election Security Library part of DHS Election Security

U.S. Election Assistance Commission - Election Security Preparedness

Cybersecurity for Nonprofits

Transition Integrity Project and their Full Report

Should America Be Worried About Political Violence? And What Can We Do to Prevent It?

Brennan Center for Justice - Election Security including The Machinery of Democracy: Voting System Security, Accessibility, Usability, and Cost

Election Security 2020 – Congressional Members Talking Points

Center for American Progress - Election Security in All 50 States Defending America's Elections

Center for Democracy and Technology - Election Security

Secure Elections Project _Automated Voter Registration

The GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Elections including the CIS Election Security Best Practices

Tips from #gijnElectionWatchdog’s First Week including an essential toolkit for election reporting

Scenarios

Prepare for the Worst and Fight for the Best: A Citizen’s Guide to 2020 Electoral Interference [9/18/20]

Opinion | ‘It’s 8 P.M. on Election Day.’ Experts Share Their Nightmare Scenarios? [9/9/20]

What’s the worst that could happen? The election will likely spark violence — and a constitutional crisis [9/3/20]

What Will You Do if Trump Doesn’t Leave? [9/3/20]

As Trump demurs, an unimaginable question forms: Could the president reach for the military in a disputed election? [7/28/20]

Barring a landslide, what’s probably not coming on Nov. 3? A result in the race for the White House. [6/22/20]

How Donald Trump Could Steal the Election The president can’t simply cancel the fall balloting, but his state-level allies could still deliver him a second term. [3/29/20]

The loser of November’s election may not concede. Their voters won’t, either. [1/24/20]

Preparing for a Disputed Presidential Election: An Exercise in Election Risk Assessment and Management [12/31/2019]

We checked 100 years of protests in 150 countries. Here’s what we learned about the working class and democracy. The success of mass protests depends on who is doing the protesting. [10/24/19]

Preparedness

How to avert a post-election nightmare [8/18/20]

Gov't election security struggles to reach some counties [8/17/20]

Volunteer hacker army boosts U.S. election cybersecurity [7/30/20]

With election cybersecurity experts in short supply, some states call in the National Guard [9/4/19]

Risks

DECISION 2020: U.S. state, local election computer networks still vulnerable to hacks [10/2/20]

Fixing Democracy: The Election Security Crisis and Solutions for Mending It [9/1/2020]

The election security hole everyone ignores [8/31/20]

74 Days From the Presidential Election, Security Worries Mount [8/21/20]

Matt Blaze warns of election security challenges amid COVID-19 [8/5/20]

'Online and vulnerable': Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet [7/21/20]

What to expect when you’re electing: What Talos learned after 4 years of research and hands-on experience [07/16/20]

Exclusive: U.S. officials fear ransomware attack against 2020 election [8/26/19]

Exclusive: Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials [8/8/19]

Threats

Russians are again targeting Americans with disinformation, Facebook and Twitter warn. [9/2/20]

Foreign governments are trying to hack the election, but states are better defended, officials say [8/26/20]

Homeland Security official: Little evidence of Russian election hacking so far [7/17/20]

Cases

Trump thinks violence and chaos on the streets is good for his reelection, and he's not trying to hide it [8/31/2020]

Biden condemns violence 'on the left or the right' and challenges Trump 'to do the same' [8/31/20]

Pentagon’s top general apologizes for appearing alongside Trump in Lafayette Square [6/11/20]

Outlook Perspective I’m on Trump’s voter fraud commission. I’m suing it to find out what it’s doing. [11/30/19]

Gov. DeSantis: Russians hacked voting databases in two Florida counties [5/14/19]

Campaign Strategy

Trump Nevada rally: President says he is ‘probably entitled’ to more than two terms [9/13/20]

Trump’s bogus attacks on mail-in voting could hurt his supporters, too The president is undermining democracy. He could also be undermining his own campaign. [5/20/20]

Do the Republicans Even Believe in Democracy Anymore? [7/1/2019]

Disinformation

D.H.S. Downplayed Threats From Russia and White Supremacists, Whistle-Blower Says [9/9/20]

Voting by Mail Is Popular. So Is the False Idea That It’s Ripe for Fraud. [7/31/20]

Dirty Tricks: 9 Falsehoods that Could Undermine the 2020 Election [7/30/20]

Technology

Google, Facebook, and Others Broaden Group to Secure U.S. Elections [8/12/20]

Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts [7/21/2020]

Big Tech Companies Meeting With U.S. Officials on 2020 Election Security [9/4/19]

Facebook Tightens Rules on Verifying Political Advertisers [8/28/2019]

Legal

The federal crackdown in Portland is ‘legal.’ That’s the problem with it. Department of Homeland Security officials are following the letter of the law — and flagrantly abusing its spirit. [7/22/20]

Supreme Court Rules State 'Faithless Elector' Laws Constitutional [7/6/20]

What Is the Insurrection Act of 1807, the Law Behind Trump’s Threat to States? [6/2/20]

Trump is wrong. Concession speeches aren’t binding at all. Campaign-ending speeches are ritual ways to protect democracy. Counting votes matters more. [11/9/2018]

Basics

What’s a provisional ballot and what are their rates of acceptance?

A Big Blue Shift: Measuring an Asymmetrically Increasing Margin of Litigation

What is state election Result Canvassing?

For the first time, there are fewer registered Republicans than independents [2//28/2020]

How do voting machines work?