Insights Archive - Election Security Exchange

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Situation Room insights from the Election Security Exchange

Situation Room: AI as a Social Media Threat Multiplier

The conversation about artificial intelligence of late tends to center on national security, but the intersection of generative AI and social media is a more ... Read more

Planning insights from the Election Security Exchange

Operations

Planning Desk, Week E-15: Equipment Readiness Check Part 2: Pre-election Testing of Hardware

Elections operate on a complex series of systems, where a single failure can cascade. Ballot-marking devices (BMDs), tabulators, e-pollbooks, scanners, printers, batteries, and cables all ... Read more

Cybersecurity

Resource Library: Can You Trust What You’re Seeing? Tools for Your AI Toolbelt

The rapid rise of AI-generated content on social media presents a practical challenge for election officials: how to quickly determine whether something is authentic and ... Read more

Insights via Webinar from the Election Security Exchange

Cybersecurity Operations Physical Security

Plan First, Panic Never: Election Day Disruptions

Evacuations and breakdowns and rumors, oh my! You don’t know what it is yet, but you do know there’s always something on Election Day. Whether ... Read more

Operations

Planning Desk, Week E-16: Pre-Election Testing of Software

Election administration relies on a complex web of technologies, systems, and processes that share and transfer data. Every point that creates, stores, or transfers election ... Read more

Physical Security

Situation Room: An Election Defeat Led to Targeted Shootings and Murder-for-Hire

Even in a period when we have experienced increased political violence in our country – assassinations, attempted assassinations, and efforts to violently reject election results ... Read more

Cybersecurity Operations Physical Security

Planning Desk, Week E-17: Don’t wait to communicate!

Election officials routinely face the possibility of last-minute changes to their election data, systems, or processes due to court orders, new legislation, candidate withdrawals or ... Read more

Physical Security

Situation Room: Security Review of Recent Statewide Primaries

Since our review of the first primaries of the 2026 election cycle, another 15 states voted, and election officials confronted several new security challenges. In ... Read more

Secure elections require proactive planning and decisive response. This nonpartisan resource library focuses on election security, including the physical, operational, and cyber dimensions of election administration. Each tool reflects industry best practices and can be customized for use by any election office. Consult your state or county attorney to see if you can use them.