The ASD AI Election Security Handbook

Gorman and Levine's handbook is designed for a specific audience that most AI security guidance ignores: election officials — returning officers, registrars, and election administrators who run democratic processes but typically lack the technical background to address AI-enabled threats. The handbook covers deepfakes, synthetic audio, and AI-assisted disinformation in accessible terms, provides detection guidance calibrated for non-specialists, and includes incident response frameworks.

For organisations working on election administration capacity-building — particularly in smaller democracies or sub-national jurisdictions with limited resources — this is among the most directly applicable guides available. It also serves as a useful template for practitioner-facing guidance that more advanced technical work rarely produces.