Due to the ongoing faux audit of some ballots in Arizona’s 2020 presidential election, much of the public’s attention on ensuring trust in elections has understandably centered around audits. Many voters say that they trust a hand count audit. Hand [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine gave a presentation on election resilience and trust at the Idaho Association of County Recorders and Clerks' 2021 conference. [...]
In this episode of the Election Cybersecurity Initiative Podcast, host Adam Clayton Powell III speaks with Maurice Turner, Cybersecurity Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. They discuss the latest developments in cybersecurity such as Ar [...]
Germany’s federal election in September this year will mark a critical change not only for Germany but for Europe as a whole. Chancellor Angela Merkel has led Europe’s largest country and economic powerhouse since 2005, long before the specter of th [...]
The “audit” of all 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County during the 2020 presidential election has been a sham thus far. Putting aside the legitimate question of whether such an audit is even needed in the first place, this audit is being led, [...]
It may be unclear whether broad-reaching election integrity and voter access bills will ultimately be adopted but one thing is certain: Congress needs to help restore trust in our elections, especially after the Jan. 6 insurrection and recent state [...]
On Monday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) confirmed to Politico that it is working to establish a Foreign Malign Influence Center. The center, which was first authorized as part of the 2020 Defense Authorization bill, wil [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow joined host Shaye Ganam to discuss election security in Canada and other democracies, as well as the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace. Related reading: Multi-Stakeholder Insights: A Compendium On Countering [...]
Introductory Letter Governments, civil society and industry recognize the importance of a secure, stable and accessible cyber and digital information space, especially in today’s challenging and unpredictable environment. In November 2018, the Fr [...]
Speakers: The Honorable Dominic LeBlanc, President of the Queen's Privy Council and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Brad Smith, President of Microsoft Dr. Karen Donfried, President of The German Marshall Fund of the United States The Paris Cal [...]
Multi-stakeholder Insights: A Compendium on Countering Election Interference Wednesday, April 14th, 2021 | 9:15 a.m. PDT | 12:15 p.m. EDT | 6:15 p.m. CET Speakers: The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada an [...]
The Netherlands is a tech-savvy nation that has scaled back the use of technology in its elections over the past decade-plus as part of its efforts to reduce the likelihood that autocratic actors, such as Russia, are able to interfere in the technic [...]
Program Manager and Analyst Bradley Hanlon joined Julie Mason to discuss the more than 200 actions the government, private sector, and civil society took to secure the 2020 election against foreign interference and how we can improve going forward. [...]
Last Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held yet another hearing to grill social media CEOs about the mis- and disinformation on their platforms. While much of the hearing consisted of members soliciting soundbites from the executives [...]
In January, less than two weeks before Portugal’s presidential election was scheduled, a new wave of the coronavirus threatened to overwhelm hospitals and led the Portuguese government to put the country back under lockdown. But unlike other countri [...]
On March 25, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a sweeping election law that includes measures to impose stricter identification requirements for absentee voting, limit the number of ballot drop boxes, shift oversight of elections to the legislature [...]
Executive Summary The 2016 presidential election served as a wakeup call to the threat of authoritarian interference, and in the years since, many segments of American society—from the federal government to private companies and civil society gro [...]
Program Manager and Fellow Nad’a Kovalčíková joined a virtual panel on the topic of “Future of Digital Platforms: Improving transparency of political advertising,” organized by the GLOBSEC-led Alliance for Healthy Infosphere, to discuss the perspect [...]
Acting Director David Salvo joined Julie Mason to discuss Russia’s tools, tactics, and motivations for attempting to interfere in the U.S. elections. Related reading: Leaks, Lies, and Altered Tape: Russia’s Maturing Information Manipulation Playbook [...]
Does the U.S. need another presidential election commission? Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine argues yes, the U.S. does need a presidential election commission in this point-counterpoint edition of Electionline. January 6’s deadly insurrecti [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joins "High Turnout Wide Margins" for a conversation about his recent recommendation for a presidential commission for election security and best practices. Further reading: Trusting the Vote: Establishing a P [...]
Later this month the Netherlands—an increasingly influential European Union member, particularly in the wake of the United Kingdom’s departure—will hold parliamentary elections. As the largest country to hold a parliamentary election since the pande [...]
Listen to USC Election Cybersecurity Executive Director, Adam Clayton Powell, III and Cybersecurity Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States, and USC Election Security Analyst, Maurice Turner, introduce USC [...]
On March 3, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1: For the People Act of 2021, advancing to the Senate what would be the most comprehensive overhaul of U.S. election law in the past half a century. The 791-page bill includes important measures [...]
This article was originally published on GW International Law and Policy Brief's website. Election observers help ensure that elections are conducted in a democratic manner, as recognized by international law. Paragraph 8 of the 1990 Organization f [...]
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer joined Josh Hamilton on The Jist. Bret and Josh first spoke three to discuss the weaponization of information and the threat to democracy. Now, three years later, things have unfortunately not gott [...]
Nobody has suffered serious legal consequences for actively welcoming—some say aiding and abetting—Russian interference in the 2016 and 2020 elections, or for having asked the presidents of Ukraine and China to similarly interfere. One reason for th [...]
ASD’s Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine and the Center for Democracy and Technology's Senior Technologist in Elections and Democracy William T. Adler argue that President Biden should establish a bipartisan presidential commission to identify [...]
David Levine and William T. Adler’s report Trusting the Vote: Establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Resilience and Trust is highlighted in The Fulcrum. At a time when democracy feels most fragile, in the wake of a divisive election fu [...]
David Levine and William T. Adler's report Trusting the Vote: Establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Resilience and Trust is featured in CyberScoop. There’s a brief window for the Biden administration to boost Americans’ trust in the vo [...]
Tonya Riley gives an exclusive first look at David Levine and William T. Adler's report, Trusting the Vote: Establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Resilience and Trust, in The Washington Post's Cyber 202. After a volatile election cycl [...]
ASD’s Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine and the Center for Democracy and Technology's Senior Technologist in Elections and Democracy William T. Adler urge President Biden to establish a bipartisan presidential commission to recommend ways to [...]
Executive Summary In recent years, U.S. government officials have normalized a damaging notion: that soliciting or participating in foreign interference in a U.S. election will not be prosecuted. Foreign governments from Beijing to Moscow and else [...]
This article was originally published on GMF's blog on January 8, 2021. As the world watched with growing disbelief, the end of 2020 and the start of 2021 merged into a long transition as Donald Trump’s refusal to concede that he had lost last Nove [...]
While the legitimacy and outcome of the 2020 presidential election have long been beyond reproach, some could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. A few weeks ago, the Republican U.S. Senators from Georgia requested that the state’s Republican Secret [...]
The contest with authoritarianism requires the United States to understand its strengths. Upon winning the presidency, Joe Biden promised to lead “not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.” That pledge is important, because [...]
Every December, the Alliance for Securing Democracy team tries to take a step back and look at the foreign interference landscape, and to take stock of where new laws and policies would have the greatest impact at strengthening our institutions from [...]
Election Integrity Fellow David Levine joined "GovExec Daily" to discuss how elections can be more secure in the wake of the recent presidential contest. While the 2020 general election is not quite over until the Georgia Senate runoff is decided i [...]
While much has been reported about the security of the 2020 election, there is one critical area many news reports are missing—the security and protection of the people carrying out the election, and that has fallen woefully short. Securing election [...]
ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine discusses what, in light of 2020, we can do to make upcoming elections even more secure in an article in The Fulcrum. [...]