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1 Election Security Advance Planning Checklist 1 (2019)

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Election Security


Advance Planning


Checklist
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 19,2019


Prevent and Recover

from Electronic Pollbook

Failures and Outages

l Limit or eliminate connectivity to wireless
   networks whenever possible.

l Implement proper security protocols when
   wireless connectivity is required.

    Encrypt all communications between e-pollbook
     units.

    Adopt new and strong passwords after every
     election.

l Ensure systems are properly patched as part
   of Election Day preparations.

    Review and adhere to all guidelines or require-
     ments created by state or local government IT
     agencies.

    Use the National Institute of Standards and
   Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework to


    develop any additional guidelines.

    Stay up to date on alerts from the Election
    Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis
    Center (EI-ISAC) about recent vulnerabilities and
    emergency security patches.

El Keep appropriate backup of e-pollbooks in
   polling places.

    Send paper backups of e-pollbooks to polling
   places with other printed materials.

    If centralized voting locations are used and back-
   up paper pollbooks are not feasible, arrange for
   these locations to have nonnetworked alternative
   devices containing the entire list of registered
   voters for the jurisdiction.

    Evaluate recovery procedures to ensure they will
   be easy for poll workers to follow.

l Provide sufficient provisional ballots and ma-
   terials for two to three hours of peak voting.

   m Allow voters to use regular ballots whenever
   possible.


Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law

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