Pitt Cyber’s work, conducted primarily from 2018-2020, on election security explored the technical, policy, and political challenges to securing our elections and provides practical, concrete recommendations for protecting our democracy.
The Social Media Election Policy Tracker is a tool created to chronicle a timeline of selected social media companies’ evolving policies that have impacted the information environment related to U.S. elections and campaigns from 2016 to 2024. This beta version of the tracker allows you to explore, compare, and filter through different categories of election policies over time by social media platform.
The Civic Resilience Initiative works to build understanding of Pennsylvania’s election administration. Here you can find resources for you, your organization, and your community that provide accurate information about our elections. These resources were created in 2022-2024.
The global pandemic presents extraordinary challenges to the safety and accessibility of our elections. Learn more about Pitt Cyber's recommendations to protect our health and our democracy in 2020.
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Pennsylvania’s Election Security is an independent bipartisan commission formed to study Pennsylvania’s election cybersecurity. Learn more about the commission and its work in 2018-2019.
Pennsylvania counties transitioned to paper-based voting machines. These upgrades vastly improved the Commonwealth’s election security. Pitt Cyber and Citizens for Better Elections collected information in 2019-2020 about each Pennsylvania county’s selection of new voting systems, including the vendor, configuration, and cost.
State and local election officials find themselves acting as front-line cyber warriors, defending against nation-state attacks. To keep elections secure, states need resources and federal assistance. Pitt Cyber, Brennan Center for Justice, R Street Institute, and the Alliance for Securing Democracy analyzed these needs in 2019.