ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine discussed Microsoft's preemptive strike on the ransomware botnet TrickBot and what it means for election security in 2020 with The Fulcrum's Jeff Plungis. [...]
The media plays an essential role in every democracy; but in an election season marked with uncertainty on many different levels, the responsibility of the press corps to preserve the truth while getting the story right is even greater. Now armed wi [...]
Posting photos of a marked ballot is illegal in 27 states, including New York and New Jersey. Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine spoke to NBC New York about the legality and security of "ballot selfies." [...]
Executive Summary The United States, like many other democracies, faces concerted and sophisticated operations aimed at disrupting, delegitimizing, and in some cases altering the outcomes of its elections. While foreign interference operations are [...]
Malign Finance Fellow Josh Rudolph gave a lecture entitled "Subverting Elections: A Toolkit of Foreign Interference" at Middlebury College's Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. [...]
From logistical challenges to disinformation campaigns and attacks undermining the integrity of the election process, the 2020 Presidential Election—set against the backdrop of a global pandemic—promises to be unlike any other U.S. election in histo [...]
ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine briefed foreign journalists on U.S. election security as part of the State Department’s Foreign Press Center Virtual Reporting Tour on October 8, 2020. Below is the unofficial transcript of the briefing. [...]
ASD’s Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems’ Director for Europe and Eurasia Beata Martin-Rozumilowicz provide a guide to help election officials in the United States and Europe conduct secur [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger and Non-Resident Fellow Clint Watts joined a panel entitled "Combatting Disinformation and Misinformation in Elections" at CISA's National Cybersecurity Summit with Alex Stamos, Jorhena Thomas, and Olivia Gazis. [...]
Monday, October 12, 2020 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EDT | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CET Register here. From logistical challenges to disinformation campaigns and attacks undermining the integrity of the election process, the 2020 Presidential Election—se [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine and National Vote at Home Institute CEO Amber McReynolds argue that voting by mail is safe and secure, and Americans should feel confident about the process in an op-ed for The Fulcrum's Election Dissection bl [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined "This Week in South Carolina" to discuss foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections. [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined Jack Noland of RepresentUs and Eliza Sweren-Becker of the Brennan Center for Justice to discuss how Americans can make sure their vote is counted in the 2020 Election. [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined an online panel discussion on cybersecurity and election interference hosted by Sierra College. [...]
Fellow for Malign Finance Josh Rudolph discusses how the rise of foreign funding distorts politics in the West, drawing on our recently released paper Covert Foreign Money: Financial Loopholes Exploited by Authoritarians to Fund Political Interferen [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger joined a discussion panel on voter attitudes and foreign influence hosted by the Center for a New American Security, the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, and the Annenberg Public Policy Center. [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined a panel discussion on the security of election infrastructure in the lead up to the 2020 Election at the Riley Center at Furman University. [...]
Josh Rudolph appeared on the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University's The Europe Desk podcast to discuss malign finance in politics. [...]
Clint Watts joined the Wilson Center's Nina Jankowicz to discuss the aims of Russian disinformation in the 2020 Election on MSNBC's Live with Ali Velshi. [...]
ASD Non-Resident Fellow Clint Watts co-authored a piece on deepfakes and their impact on American democracy with Tim Hwang of the University of Texas at Austin in the Washington Post. [...]
ASD Non-Resident Fellow Clint Watts joined Michael Waldman and Janai Nelson in a panel discussion on voting access and disinformation on NBC's Meet the Press. [...]
ASD Junior Fellow Jennifer Gurev and Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine discuss election integrity during the threat of coronavirus, and explore examples like the elections in Poland and the cyber attacks in North Macedonia. [...]
ASD Director Zack Cooper and Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer joined Girma Parris of Case Western Reserve University on a panel at The City Club of Cleveland to discuss the United States' disinformation and election security prep [...]
Laura Rosenberger went on KERA "Think" to discuss Russian and Chinese interference and Americans' confidence in the 2020 election. [...]
ASD Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer and Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine authored a piece on the intersection of disinformation and safe voting during the coronavirus pandemic as part of the National Urban League's annual [...]
Director Laura Rosenberger explains the need to fortify U.S. democracy to offer an alternative to authoritarianism being spread by Russia and the People's Republic of China in The Dallas Morning News. As anti-racism protests erupted across the co [...]
ASD Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined a panel discussion hosted by FedInsider on how voters will interact with new security measures being introduced for upcoming elections. (Please note: an email address is required to view the panel d [...]
THE ALLIANCE FOR SECURING DEMOCRACY PARTNERS WITH THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SECRETARIES OF STATE TO SUPPORT #TRUSTEDINFO2020 INITIATIVE Contact: Kayla Goodson, [email protected] Washington, D.C.-- Ahead of the 2020 general election, the [...]
In August 2020, ASD joined the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and its other supporting partners on #TrustedInfo2020, an education effort dedicated both to promoting election officials as the trusted sources of election informati [...]
Statement of David Levine, Elections Integrity Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection & Innovation of the Committee on Homeland Security Hearing On “Safe, Secure and Auditable: Protecting [...]
This article was originally published as a GMF Transatlantic Take on July 31, 2020. After the United Kingdom’s parliament released its recent report on Russian interference in British democracy, front-page headlines howled that it damns the governme [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined GovExec's daily podcast to discuss the security of the election, mail-in voting, and the coronavirus. The 2020 election cycle was expected to dominate this year, but it has been moved aside as the corona [...]
In May, just days before the Polish presidential election was scheduled, the coronavirus pandemic and a government-ordered lockdown threw preparations for the election into disarray. The conservative ruling party and its opponents could not agree on [...]
This article was originally published as a GMF Transatlantic Take on July 23, 2020. With mounting evidence that Russia regularly interferes in British democracy while the U.K. government “actively avoids” investigating, the country needs a proven pl [...]
The hijack of several high-profile Twitter feeds raises concern:could America's adversaries crash markets, ruin elections, or start a war with fake tweets? Director Laura Rosenberger discussed CNN to discuss these concerns. [...]
Digital Media and Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer explained that for the first time with the George Floyd protests, we’ve seen China aggressively messaging on an issue that doesn’t directly relate to its own interests. China has been trying to pa [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined "2020Talks" to discuss the news that the Senate stripped a measure requiring presidential campaigns to report attempts by foreign nationals to interfere in elections from the 2021 National Defense Author [...]
On June 29, 2020, Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine joined the Global Cyber Alliance for an interactive online event to discuss the issues facing elections and possible ways forward. [...]
Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine and Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer discuss social media and foreign interference in the upcoming 2020 election in an online discussion with the Secure Elections Network. [...]
Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow Bret Schafer spoke to Julie Mason about the online threats to the U.S. election, including disinformation, "cheapfakes," and information leaks. [...]