Elections are a hallmark of democracy, making them prime targets for foreign interference. Find ASD’s work on the foreign threats to election infrastructure and electoral processes, as well as steps democracies can take to secure them, on this page.
David Levine at the Embassy of Canada and International IDEA: AI & Elections: Exploring the Opportunities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Senior Fellow David Levine joined a panel discussion with the Embassy of Canada and International IDEA to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on elections, including its potential uses and innovations and the risks it presents. watch [...]
David Levine and Massimiliano Albanese in the Fulcrum: Gen Z is key to securing America’s elections
America's elections are under unprecedented threat. From foreign interference in the 2016 presidential race to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, the integrity of our democratic process has been repeatedly targeted in recent years. Safeguarding it agai [...]
Building Resilience Against Election Influence Operations: Preparing for the European Elections in 2024 and Beyond
Executive Summary In 2024, nearly half of the world’s population is heading to the polls. One of the biggest of these contests is the 2024 European Parliament elections from June 6–9, in which 366 million voters in the union’s 27 member states wil [...]
New Report Highlights Best Practices to Counter Election Disinformation
Experts examined five case studies—in France, Sweden, Estonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Ukraine—to highlight effective practices as half the world’s population heads to the polls. WASHINGTON, DC — The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) at the [...]
David Levine at the McCain Institute: Securing the Vote: Countering Foreign Threats to American Elections
Senior Fellow David Levine joins Joshua Garland of ASU, Noah Praetz of the Elections Group, and Paul Fagan of the McCain Institute to discuss foreign threats to US elections and the motivations of foreign actors for targeting them. watch here Th [...]
David Levine and Laurențiu Pleșca in Emerging Europe: Moldova must bolster its electoral integrity ahead of this year’s presidential election
Moldova is due to hold its next presidential election in autumn this year. Laurențiu Pleșca and David Levine write that given the high risk of Russian interference, bolstering the country’s electoral integrity should be a key priority ahead of the v [...]
Lindsay Gorman at SXSW: Elections in the Age of AI: New Tech’s Impacts on Democracy
Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies Lindsay Gorman joined a panel at SXSW 2024 to discuss how artificial intelligence will impact democratic institutions and elections moving forward. She was joined by Boston University's Joan Donovan, Center fo [...]
Krystyna Sikora, David Levine, and Lindsay Gorman in the Fulcrum: Elections workers must wake up to the risks posed by AI
Days before New Hampshire’s presidential primary, up to 25,000 Granite State voters received a mysterious call from “President Joe Biden.” He urged Democrats not to vote in the primary because it “only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect [...]
The Role of Search Engines in Contesting or Reinforcing Election Fraud Narratives
“Look up SMARTMATIC and tweet me what you think?” tweeted Rudy Guiliani, then-US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, in the weeks after the 2020 US presidential election. It was part of a broader campaign to delegitimize the election by castin [...]
The ASD AI Election Security Handbook
Introduction The typical local election official in the United States is a white woman who is older than 50, earns more than $40,000, does not have a college degree, and is less likely today than in the past to have extensive experience in electio [...]
ASD Publishes AI Election Security Handbook
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States released “The ASD AI Election Security Handbook” as a resource for elections officials responding to unprecedented threats to election security su [...]
David Levine in Taipei Times: The next vote can be even better
Taiwan recently reaffirmed the strength of its democracy by successfully administering its elections last month in defiance of threats from China and elsewhere, but those threats and others created an emphasis on election security that continues to [...]