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What The States Are Doing on Election Security

Learn about preventing spoofing with DMARC, safeguarding elections with .gov domains, and how to report election misinformation on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Help ensure transparent and secure elections.

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What The States Are Doing on Election Security

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  1. Amy Cohen, Executive Director What The States Are Doing on Election Security

  2. Spoofing • Spoofing is when a bad actor impersonates a legitimate email sender • DMARC prevents spoofing by allowing the recipient of an email to “check” with the sender’s domain to make sure the email meets certain criteria and then quarantining or rejecting those emails that do not meet those criteria • All federal domains must use DMARC and some states do, too

  3. [Dot] Gov • Federal, state, and local governments have the option to use .gov as their domain – this is only open to government • Security benefits of .gov: • DDOS protection built in (aka – it won’t fall over!) • Provides HTTPS preloading • Trusted • 20 Washington counties are not using .gov

  4. Email Eva Guidarini (Eguidarini@fb.com) and copy reports@content.facebook.com with subject line “Election Issues/Voter Suppression” • Include as much information as possible • Kinds of things to report: • Content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election; • Offers to buy or sell votes with cash or gifts; • Misrepresentation of the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting or voter registration; • Misrepresentation of who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information and/or materials must be provided in order to vote Facebook

  5. Twitter • Send issues to the Secretary of State’s office • Include as much information as possible • Kinds of things to report: • Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election; • Any offers to buy or sell votes with cash or gifts; • Misrepresentation of the dates, locations, and times, and methods for voting or voter registration; • Misrepresentation of who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information and/or materials must be provided in order to vote

  6. Google • Report issues to civic-outreach@google.com and copy John Ruxton (JohnRuxton@google.com) and Erica Arbetter (Arbetter@google.com) • Include as much information as possible • Kinds of things to report: • Misleading advertising • Issues with YouTube (verification, misinformation, etc) • OneBox or Knowledge Panel problems

  7. Amy Cohen | acohen@nased.org | @NASEDOrg | www.nased.org

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