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Category Archives: voting technology
Kim Zetter for Politico. … Continue reading
Release: Common Cause, the National Election Defense Coalition and Protect Democracy today filed an Amicus Curiae brief in support of all plaintiffs in the Curling v. Kemp lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The … Continue reading
At RCP, Phil Stupak writes: As our nation focuses on election security, an errant notion has emerged that paper-only balloting is some kind of panacea against potential threats. While it is vital to election security that we mandate the use … Continue reading
Available here. The indictment alleges a conspiracy to hack the systems of not only the DNC and Clinton campaign, but also election authorities. PBS: The indictment said two named defendants knowingly conspired to hack computers of U.S. “persons,” state agencies and … Continue reading
WaPo on yesterday’s hearings on both sides of Capitol Hill: “Momentum may finally be building in Congress to take new action to secure the elections from cyberthreats as the midterms approach.” Politico reports that: “The top Democrat on the Senate Rules Committee … Continue reading
The State. The complaint filed in federal district court alleges: In South Carolina, the capacity of the state’s election system to record and count votes reliably is deeply compromised by the state’s unnecessarily vulnerable voting system. Throughout the state, elections … Continue reading
Sacramento Bee: With increased attention to cybersecurity lately, California is making a sizable investment in its election infrastructure. This year’s state budget provides $134 million for counties to modernize voting systems. It also provides $3 million for the creation of … Continue reading
Steve Rosenfeld reports. … Continue reading
Upcoming event: Election Security War Game: Testing Critical Infrastructure Designation Election Law Program William & Mary Law School April 12, 2018 3:30-6:00, Room 119 Free and Open to the Public Virginia CLE Credit available On April 12, 2018, … Continue reading
Gizmodo: Voting machine manufacturer ES&S is facing new questions from a prominent US lawmaker regarding the security of its voting systems. Sen. Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, has asked ES&S to explain by March 30th whether its voting machines or … Continue reading
Michael Waldman for Politico Magazine. … Continue reading
Good news. … Continue reading
The UCI Cybersecurity and Research Institute is holding this event on March 13, with keynote James Carville. … Continue reading
Nice profile of Barbara and Verified Voting in the December Atlantic. … Continue reading
AP: A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned. The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at … Continue reading
Details on Oct. 24 meeting. … Continue reading
Celeste Katz: It happened in Las Vegas, but the weaknesses in U.S. voting equipment uncovered during a summer hackathon are too important to stay there, experts say. They’re a matter of national security. A new report breaks down the lessons learned … Continue reading
Doug Chapin covers Brian Hancock on the local tip of the electoral cybersecurity spear. … Continue reading
Here’s a more optimistic assessment of electoral cybersecurity preparedness than yesterday’s version; it’s focused on the 28-member federal-state Election Critical Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council. … Continue reading
A Politico preview of the report coming tomorrow from the DEFCON hacker conference in July, about the security of voting machines. Voting system security is vitally important, and I wish that more attention were paid to the market for and … Continue reading
Fortune has a different scoop from the same report: Ethical hackers will team up with U.S. governors, academics and others to help prevent election results from being hacked, according to a person familiar with the plan. The coalition’s members include … Continue reading
An unfortunate Newsweek headline for an article about filling Homeland Security positions to assist with cyberdefense. The federal government could certainly play a role in assisting on cybersecurity matters, and probably should do so. But aside from the fact that … Continue reading
There have been a few efforts to supplement the existing voting system market with new systems, built more-or-less ground-up by counties with a blue-sky approach. The counties start with a list of attributes and functions rather than grafting new features … Continue reading
AJC reports. … Continue reading
WaPo: Concerned about potential hacking two months away from the state’s closely watched gubernatorial election, Virginia’s state Board of Elections voted Friday to replace any touchscreen voting machines before November’s elections. The three-member board voted unanimously to decertify Direct Recording … Continue reading
Good news via Politico: Virginia’s election office on Friday urged the state’s election supervisors to prohibit touchscreen voting machines before November’s elections, saying the devices posed unacceptable digital risks. If approved, the move would represent one of the most dramatic … Continue reading
Phys.org: Online attackers may be able to purchase – for as little as a few thousand dollars – enough personal information to potentially alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to … Continue reading
Michael Chertoff oped in the WSJ: American voters received yet another rude awakening last month. Chicago’s Board of Elections reported that names, addresses, birth dates and other sensitive information about the city’s 1.8 million registered voters had been exposed on … Continue reading
Interview with Harri Hursti. … Continue reading
Austin American-Statesman: The manufacturer of the digital voting machines used across the state has filed suit in Travis County state District Court, seeking to block the Texas secretary of state from certifying rival machine makers whose devices produce a paper … Continue reading
R. James Woolsey and Brian Fox NYT oped. … Continue reading
LAT: Local election officials are looking for some good hackers. As part of an effort to create a new voting system, Los Angeles County computer specialists are headed this week to Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacking conventions, where … Continue reading
WaPo: The former managers of Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns are leading a new initiative called “Defending Digital Democracy” in the hopes of preventing a repeat of Russia’s 2016 election interference. Robby Mook, Clinton’s 2016 campaign chief, and … Continue reading
I have posted this new draft on SSRN (for the pre-APSA event, Protecting Electoral Security and Voting Rights: The 2016 U.S. Elections in Comparative Perspective). Here is the abstract: If the “voting wars” which have broken out across the post-2000 election … Continue reading
Greg Sargent: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which oversees House races, has issued a formal request to its Republican counterpart, asking it to join in showing a “united front” and creating a “joint plan” against any Russian efforts to undermine … Continue reading
Pam’s work has been so important, and with new threats the work of Verified Voting is more important than every. … Continue reading
Important Pam Fessler. … Continue reading
Lisa Rosenbloom for the ACLU. … Continue reading
Pam Fessler for NPR. … Continue reading
Stunning reporting by Kim Zetter for Politico Magazine: As Georgia prepares for a special runoff election this month in one of the country’s most closely watched congressional races, and as new reports emerge about Russian attempts to breach American election systems, … Continue reading
Politico: Hackers will target American voting machines—as a public service, to prove how vulnerable they are. When over 25,000 of them descend on Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas at the end of July for DEFCON, the world’s largest hacking conference, … Continue reading
WSB: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating an alleged data breach at the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University. Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant reports the state voter data kept by the Center for Election Systems was compromised. … Continue reading
Some important folks in the field signing this letter: We enthusiastically support your dedicated leadership efforts to investigate thec ybersecurity vulnerabilities in our country’s 2016 election process. We are a group of volunteer election systems technical experts and citizen advocates for … Continue reading
Baltimore Business Journal reports. … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
I trust Charles Stewart a lot and this is a must-read. … Continue reading
Candice Hoke for The Hill. … Continue reading
Pam Fessler for NPR. … Continue reading
Earlier I suggested that today’s Internet hack which disrupted things could be a dry-run for election day. The NY Times now reports the pernicious and widespread nature of this attack: And in a troubling development, the attack appears to have relied … Continue reading