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| Oct 17, 2026 | Secretary Thomas Responds to Suspicious Letters Sent to Election Offices | Press Releases
10/17/2026
(Hartford, Connecticut) – The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating a series of suspicious letters mailed to election offices across the country, including the Connecticut Secretary of the State.... |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Secretary Hughs Joins NASS In #TrustedInfo2020 Education Effort | AUSTIN - Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughs today announced ahead of the 2020 primary and general elections that the Office of the Secretary of State will join fellow members of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) in th... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Hawkins selected as 2025 John Lewis Youth Leadership Award Recipient | Secretary of State Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez announced that Adasia Hawkins, a resident of Frederica, has been selected for the 2025 John Lewis Youth Leadership Award. The award, in honor of the late Congressman John Lewis, recognizes a gift... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | - | Building on its proven foundation in operating rooms across the country, SyncAR Spine transforms traditional imaging into a dynamic surgical roadmap, fully integrated with Medtronic StealthStation™ navigation. The platform incorporates AI-d... |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Trump wants states to feed voter info into powerful citizenship data program | The changes to SAVE, rolled out over just a few months and with little public debate, are “tinkering with sort of the bones of democracy,” said John Davisson, senior counsel and director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information C... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Justice Department demand for state voter lists underscores their importance | The Trump administration’s effort to scoop up voter registration lists and other information from a growing number of states underscores how state-controlled voter lists are a major battleground in fights over access to the polls. The Justi... |
| Feb 24, 2025 | The Battle for Election Security: A Tug-of-War Between State and Federal Powers | In the intricate dance of American democracy, election security stands as a vital pillar. Yet, recent developments reveal a troubling retreat from federal support, leaving states to fend for themselves. The stakes are high, and the implicat... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | February 21 - Secretary of State Jena Griswold Issues Statement regarding NASS Letter to DHS Secretary Noem | News Release
State of Colorado
Department of State
1700 Broadway
Suite 550
Denver, CO 80290
Jena Griswold
Secretary of State
Chris Beall
Deputy Secretary of State
Denver, February 21, 2025 - Today, the Executive Board of the bipartisan Nati... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | National Politics | Election officials blast Trump’s ‘retreat’ from protecting voting against foreign threats | Officials from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as CISA, and other federal agencies were notably absent from the National Association of Secretaries of State winter meeting in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.... |
| Feb 10, 2025 | National Politics | US cyber agency puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave | State election officials of both political parties have defended CISA’s work to help secure election offices from a range of cybersecurity and physical threats.
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, a Republican, said the agency’s work... |
| Jan 17, 2025 | Hollis selected as 2024 John Lewis Youth Leadership Award recipient | Secretary of State Jeff Bullock announced that Aa’Khai Hollis, a resident of Wilmington, has been selected for the prestigious 2024 John Lewis Youth Leadership Award. The award, in honor of the late Congressman John Lewis, recognizes a gift... |
| Oct 30, 2024 | The Battle for Ballots: Fires, Hurricanes, and the Fight for Democracy | In the lead-up to the 2024 elections, the integrity of the voting process is under siege. From arson attacks on ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon to the chaos wrought by hurricanes in the Southeast, the landscape of American democr... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | National Politics | Postal Service reassures on mail ballots, says all centers operating in regions hit by hurricanes | It’s not clear how many voters in the hardest-hit areas will return their ballots by mail. Early in-person voting has gotten off to a strong start in North Carolina, where election officials have taken a number of steps to make voting as ac... |
| Sep 20, 2024 | National Politics | In-person voting begins for presidential contest, kicking off sprint to Election Day | “I don’t think I have to. I think that’s pretty obvious. I think that’s very, very clear,” he said.
A member of the public looks at a Minneapolis map outside of the City of Minneapolis early voting center, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in St. P... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | National Politics | Election officials warn that widespread problems with the US mail system could disrupt voting | The Postal Service on Wednesday reiterated DeJoy’s assurances that it’s well positioned to swiftly deliver election mail despite being in the midst of a network modernization that has caused some delivery hiccups. Mail is currently being de... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | National Politics | Chatbots’ inaccurate, misleading responses about U.S. elections threaten to keep voters from polls | By GARANCE BURKE (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — With presidential primaries underway across the U.S., popular chatbots are generating false and misleading information that threatens to disenfranchise voters, according to a report publis... |
| Feb 19, 2024 | National Politics | Feds deliver stark warnings to state election officials ahead of November | Matt Vasilogambros | Stateline.org (TNS)
WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement and cybersecurity officials are warning the nation’s state election administrators that they face serious threats ahead of November’s presidential election.
Relat... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | As 2024 election looms, OpenAI says it is taking steps to prevent AI abuse | Enlarge
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On Monday, ChatGPT maker OpenAI detailed its plans to prevent the misuse of its AI technologies during the upcoming elections in 2024, promising transparency in AI-generated content and... |
| Jan 16, 2024 | OpenAI: How will ChatGPT owner handle elections in 2024? | With pivotal elections approaching in 2024 across major democracies, OpenAI has outlined its strategy for safeguarding its powerful large language and image models from being weaponized.
The artificial intelligence (AI) lab behind hugely po... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | Secretary of State Announces 2022 John Lewis Youth Leadership Award Recipient | Secretary of State Jeff Bullock announced that Karelin Torres was selected to receive the prestigious 2022 John Lewis Youth Leadership Award. The award, in honor of the late Congressman John Lewis, recognizes a gifted, civic-minded young De... |
| Oct 30, 2022 | Transcript: CISA Director Jen Easterly on "Face the Nation," Oct. 30, 2022 | The following is a transcript of an interview with Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, that aired Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022, on "Face the Nation."
MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Jen East... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Secretary of State Encourages New Mexicans to Get #VoteReady on National Voter Registration Day | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
20 September 2022
Contact:
Alex Curtas, Director of Communications
New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office
505-469-2783
[email protected]
Secretary of State Encourages New Mexicans to Get #VoteReady on National Vo... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | TikTok launches an in-app US midterms Elections Center, shares plan to fight misinformation | TikTok announced its midterms Elections Center will go live in the app in the U.S. starting today, August 17, 2022, where it will be available to users in more than 40 languages, including English and Spanish.
The new feature will allow use... |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Miguel H. Trujillo Posthumously Wins 2022 Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award for Political Courage | During the recent 2022 National Association of Secretaries of State Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office submitted Miguel H. Trujillo for the Margaret Chase Smith American Democracy Award and he wa... |
| May 11, 2022 | Secretary Bellows seeks nominations for John Lewis Youth Leadership Award | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, May 9, 2022
AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is seeking nominations for the 2022 John Lewis Youth Leadership Award.
Through this annual award, the Secretary of State’s Office recognizes one Maine res... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | DocuSign : A Guide to Remote Online Notarization | Remote online notarization (RON) refers to the process of having a state-licensed notary public notarize a document remotely through the use of electronic signature, identity verification, audio-visual and electronic notarial journal and re... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | TikTok to add Election Day resources, live results from AP to its election guide | TikTok announced this morning it will expand the set of resources provided in its in-app election guide in the U.S. to include direct access to sites that help users get information about polling locations and hours, those that help people ... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | How To Cast Your Vote Against Election Scams | getty |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Election Observation: Rules and Laws | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Sep 29, 2020 | TikTok launches a US elections guide in its app | Though TikTok is in the middle of fighting off the Trump administration’s attempt to ban its app in the U.S. over data privacy concerns, the company today is launching a new feature focused on the 2020 U.S. elections. TikTok announced this ... |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Twitter pledges to dial up efforts to combat election misinformation | In the latest sign of U.S. platforms bracing for the 2020 U.S. presidential election in November, Twitter has said it will step up efforts to prevent its service from being used to target voters with false information around election partic... |
| Aug 8, 2020 | Office of the Director of National Intelligence Issues Statement on Foreign Interference in the 2020 Election | The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued a press release on August 7 concerning potential foreign adversary interference in the 2020 election. The statement addresses the threats posed by China, Russia and Iran, wri... |
| Feb 28, 2020 | States and Cities Could Use Billions of Unspent DHS Grants to #Protect2020 | Federal and state officials recently told a Senate Committee that state and local governments need additional cybersecurity resources. Their testimony follows the gatherings of the nation’s state secretaries of state and election directors ... |
| Aug 13, 2018 | Kid hackers prove how easy it is to change ‘election results’ | More On: hackers
North Korean hacker group Lazarus linked to $615M cryptocurrency theft Google warns this dangerous hidden app lets strangers record you Why not updating Google's Chrome browser exposes customers to hacks Apple, Facebook fel... |
| Aug 13, 2018 | Kid hackers prove how easy it is to change ‘election results’ | More On: hackers
Hacker behind huge T-Mobile data breach says company's security is ‘awful' T-Mobile data breach affects additional 5.3M customers T-Mobile probes data breach that reportedly affects nearly all US customers Hackers behind $6... |
| Aug 8, 2018 | Voting By Cell Phone Is A Terrible Idea, And West Virginia Is Probably The Last State That Should Try It Anyway | So we’ve kind of been over this. For more than two decades now we’ve pointed out that electronic voting is neither private nor secure. We’ve also noted that despite this several-decade long conversation, many of the vendors pushing this sol... |
| Jan 3, 2018 | Assessing the Bipartisan Secure Elections Act | On Dec. 21, all eyes were on the Republican bill to cut taxes. Yet a bipartisan group of six senators also had their eyes on the far less sexy (but still important!) topic of election hacking. They quietly introduced a bill called the Secur... |
| Feb 28, 2017 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: “Alexa, Do You Have First Amendment Rights?” | Our guest for episode 152 is Paul Rosenzweig, and we tour the horizon with him.
In the news roundup, Stephanie Roy outlines the deregulatory tangle around ISPs, privacy, security, and the FCC. Maury Shenk briefs us on the European legislati... |
| ChatGPT Will Send Users to a Voting Page When Asked About the Election | OpenAI has unveiled its plans to ensure ChatGPT doesn’t turn into a disruptive influence in the elections that are taking place across the globe this year, including in the US and UK.
One of the steps the company is taking to ensure US user... |