Reports

Reports, documents, articles and court transcripts that are of interest.

• Recount Principles and Best Practices
  Properly conducted recounts assure candidates and the public that in a close election, there has been a fair examination of the procedures and an accurate count of all legally cast votes.

• Brennan Center Report - Election Experts Send Letter to the Department of Justice on Arizona Audits

• UN Report on 2018 Mid-term Congressional Elections by the
  Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
  Limited Election Observation Mission Final Report

• Transition Integrity Project
  In June 2020 the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) convened a bipartisan group of over 100 current and former senior government and campaign leaders and other experts in a series of 2020 election crisis sce- nario planning exercises. The results of all four table-top exercises were alarming.
  Read the report here (PDF)
  

• Documentation for Additional Review of Proposed Design Flaw on Dominion ImageCast Evolution (ICE) Voting System
  

• Create Evidence-based Elections
  CREATE A MEANINGFUL PAPER TRAIL, THEN AUDIT
  Read PDF Report here
  

• Senate Intelligence Committee
  Report Calling for Action on Election Security
  RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES CAMPAIGNS AND INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 U.S. ELECTION
  Read the PDF Report here.
  

• DEFCON Voting Village
  Report highlights election system vulnerabilities and solutions
  Read the PDF Report here.
  

• Brennan Center for Justice
  Re: How to Protect the 2020 Vote from the Coronavirus
  Date: March 16, 2020
  Outline of the critical changes needed to ensure the election works.
  Read the PDF Report here.
  

• Brennan Center for Justice
  Preparing for Cyberattacks and Technical Failures
  A Guide for Election Officials
  By Edgardo Cortés, Gowri Ramachandran, Liz Howard, and Lawrence Norden - PUBLISHED DECEMBER 19, 2019
  This document seeks to assist officials as they revise and expand their plans to counter cybersecurity risks.
  Read PDF Report
  

• Harvard Kennedy School
  The State and Local Election Cybersecurity Playbook
  Related: Robby Mook Matt Rhoades Eric Rosenbach | February 2018

  This Playbook is intended to identify risks and offer actionable solutions that will empower state and local election officials to protect democracy from those who seek to do it harm.
  Read PDF Report.
  

• Common Cause New York’s report, The ExpressVote XL Machine: Bad for New York’s Elections, released January 2020
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