Building a Durable Emergency Plan - Continuity and Operational Readiness for Elections

Your election office has a plan for Election Day. Does it have one for the emergency that lands on top of it? A storm, a power outage, an incident that pulls in partners your office has never worked with before: every election can have a hazard that shows up uninvited. The offices that handle it well are not improvising in the moment. They built the relationships and the response plan long before they needed them. On August 26, the Election Security Exchange is partnering with PEER (Partnership for Elections & Emergency Response) to discuss the release of their new resource, The CORE Playbook: Continuity and Operational Readiness for Elections. It's a framework for building relationships, plans, and preparedness. We'll cover how to: -Build a coordinated incident response structure with clear roles and responsibilities -Map who calls who, for what and when, and how information moves between partners -Set a planning calendar tied to your election cycle -Stress-test your plan through exercises -Start with five simple suggestions to kick-start your own planning