2024 General Election: Cross-Sector Checklist to Support Elections

Elections are held in every state and territory across the United States, and in each of these locations, the administration of elections relies on infrastructure owned and operated by other critical infrastructure sectors. Election administration timelines are rigid, often with deadlines and requirements laid out in state and federal law, and do not allow for much space for significant disruptions. Scheduled or unexpected outages in other critical infrastructure sectors could have significant cascading effects on the administration of an election.