Preparing Election Administrators for AI Act

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-01-03

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• AI system security vulnerabilities
• False or misleading information
• Pollution of information ecosystem
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Cyberattacks, weapon development or use
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Governance failure
• Lack of capability or robustness

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 6-8 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors and disinformation (4.1), misinformation (3.1, 3.2), AI system security (2.2), and governance structures (6.5). Coverage is concentrated in security, misinformation, and governance domains as they relate to election administration.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document primarily governs the Public Administration sector, specifically addressing AI use in election administration by state and local election offices. It does not regulate private sector AI development or deployment.

Legislative Status

Soft Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a legislative act that mandates the creation of voluntary guidelines, making it a hybrid instrument that uses hard law mechanisms to establish soft law guidance. The guidelines themselves are explicitly voluntary and non-binding.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: The document header identifies the United States Congress as the authority issuing this Act, making it the proposer of this governance instrument.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Deployer
• Entities: State and local election offices
• Summary: The voluntary guidelines are explicitly directed to State and local election offices that may use AI technologies in election administration activities.

Enforcer

• Summary: No enforcement mechanisms are specified in the document as the guidelines are explicitly voluntary. There is no designated enforcement body or authority.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Election Assistance Commission; National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Summary: The Election Assistance Commission is tasked with creating the guidelines in consultation with NIST, suggesting these bodies will have oversight roles in developing and potentially tracking implementation of the voluntary guidelines.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document does not focus on specific AI lifecycle stages but rather addresses the use and risks of AI technologies broadly in election administration. It implicitly covers deployment and operation/monitoring stages through its focus on how AI is used in practice and its ongoing impacts on election information and disinformation.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

No technical scope terms identified.

Technical Scope Summary

The document uses the general term 'artificial intelligence technologies' without defining it or specifying particular types of AI systems, models, or technical characteristics. No specific AI categories, compute thresholds, or model types are mentioned.