A State Agenda for Election Security and Resiliency

Brennan Center for Justice & R Street Institute

This report outlines policies to address remaining technical and security gaps across the elections ecosystem. It emphasizes that while local municipalities manage physical polling places, state leadership must provide the expertise necessary to secure databases and electronic pollbooks. The authors highlight the importance of a layered election security infrastructure and point to the National Guard's role in New Jersey and Montana's election planning and threat monitoring systems as models worth considering.