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Washington Post: It was a single phrase, offered without elaboration, in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report: In August 2016, hackers working for Russian military intelligence “installed malware on the company network” of an unnamed voter registration technology vendor … Continue reading
WaPo: As the 2020 election approaches, voting security groups are trying to rally the public behind an effort to ban Internet connections from U.S. voting machines that could be hacked by Russia and other foreign adversaries.And they’re getting an assist … Continue reading
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Important opinion and order in an important case: In sum, the Plaintiffs have alleged that Defendants were aware of serious security breaches in the DRE voting system and failed to take adequate steps to address those breaches. Notably, even after … Continue reading
AP: Georgia’s highest court is mulling whether to reverse a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the outcome of November’s race for lieutenant governor in a case that focuses attention on the state’s outdated voting machines.The lawsuit says tens … Continue reading
NPR: “In an effort to improve confidence in elections, Microsoft announced Monday that it is releasing an open-source software development kit called ElectionGuard that will use encryption techniques to let voters know when their vote is counted. It will also allow election … Continue reading
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Politico: DHS ON BMDs: DHS is scrutinizing the reliability of ballot-marking devices following a study from experts concluding that they cannot be reliably audited, Krebs also said Tuesday, but the department hasn’t come to a firm conclusion. “It’s part of the … Continue reading
NYT: In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as homeland security secretary: preparing for new and different Russian forms of interference in the 2020 … Continue reading
The Guardian: Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin is a newcomer to the cause of reforming America’s vote-counting machines, welcomed through baptism by fire. In 2015, Maryland’s main election system vendor was bought by a parent company with ties to a Russian … Continue reading
Important new paper from Andrew Appel, Richard DeMillo, and Philip Stark on the controversy over the new type of ballot printing machinery which uses barcodes: Computers, including all modern voting systems, can be hacked and misprogrammed. The scale and complexity … Continue reading
U.S. Vote Foundation: It really gets old being a guinea pig. Not because of the cagey confines, but for the insistence of those who try their ideas out on you. Overseas and military voters continue to be the guinea pigs … Continue reading
This is one of the hottest issues right now among election integrity advocates. Important piece from Steven Rosenfeld: The critics believe there are too many hidden or hackable parts that can be targeted by malevolent actors to steal votes and … Continue reading
Eric Geller for Politico: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is poised to sign a bill to overhaul the state’s voting system with machines that are widely considered vulnerable to hacking.The new equipment would replace the state’s paperless, electronic machines — technology … Continue reading
Here is a guest post from Duncan Buell, NCR Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina: If you were to ask computing and election security experts for the two things they would most strongly oppose when it … Continue reading
AJC: The Georgia House gave final legislative approval Thursday to buying a new $150 million touchscreen-and-paper ballot statewide voting system, sending the bill to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature.The House voted 101-69 on the proposal for Georgia voters to … Continue reading
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Thread: 1/I have Dominion's response to Friday's letter from NY Board of Elections. A rare glimpse into anti-security mindset of voting machine vendors. Hacking concerns may delay Westchester's $6.1M plan to buy new voting machines https://t.co/zmoTv93PJu via @lohudREAD THIS THREAD— … Continue reading
Politico: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is no longer the state’s chief election official — but his combative style in defending its insecure voting technology lives on.Fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, Kemp’s successor as secretary of state, has been pursuing the same … Continue reading
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The House Oversight Committee asked Georgia Governor Brian Kemp today for a set of documents related to voters’ difficulties in Georgia in 2018. So far, it’s just a request. And Kemp appears unimpressed. … Continue reading
TIME on the efforts of many election officials to protect the voting process against interference. And the Brennan Center on the work still to be done with respect to voting systems. … Continue reading
An important question, not just for Florida. Tampa Bay Times: A computer program might have avoided the entire 2018 recount fiasco and saved South Florida election officials days of embarrassment last year, if not their jobs.Had the law allowed it, … Continue reading
Politico reports on Georgia, Delaware, and Philadelphia’s plans to buy ballot-marking devices that “allow voters to use a touchscreen to select their choices” and then “print a slip of paper with the vote both displayed in plain text and embedded … Continue reading
Deep dive by David Smiley in the Miami Herald. … Continue reading
Adam Ambrogi: With the 2018 midterm elections, the United States yet again found itself struggling to shape policies around how it casts and counts votes. Alarm bells were set off by everything from voting machine paper jams to the security of paperless electronic … Continue reading
WaPo: Election security is already emerging as a key talking point on the campaign trail as Democrats offer up policies to secure votes from potential tampering and tout their own cybersecurity records — a sign they think this could be a strong … Continue reading
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Daily Beast: Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former Department of Homeland Security officials. And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately … Continue reading
AJC: A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a judge’s ruling that said Georgia’s electronic voting system poses a “concrete risk” to secure elections.The decision from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows the voting system lawsuit to move forward. The plaintiffs, … Continue reading
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Release: The Blue Ribbon Commission on Pennsylvania’s Election Security today released a final report recommending legislators consider bond issuances to help counties purchase voting systems with paper ballots and implement mandatory post-election audits and election emergency plans before the 2020 presidential election.In … Continue reading
Politico: Indiana’s top election official is refusing to release her communications with the National Association of Secretaries of State, limiting the public’s understanding of both her role and the role of NASS in squashing federal legislation to upgrade voting systems, … Continue reading
AP: Georgia’s new elections chief asked lawmakers Wednesday for $150 million to replace the state’s outdated electronic voting machines. In doing so, he all but closed the door on a hand-marked paper balloting system that experts say is cheapest and … Continue reading
Cleveland.com: The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections invited public comment Wednesday on three proposals for replacing electronic voting equipment.The elections board plans to replace hundreds of scanners at polling locations and several high-speed central scanners at board headquarters, all of … Continue reading
New Yorker: In the past decade, Election Systems & Software (E.S. & S.), the largest manufacturer of voting machines in the country, has routinely wined and dined a select group of state-election brass, which the company called an “advisory board,” offering … Continue reading
AP: Georgia’s outdated election system has drawn criticism from cybersecurity experts and voting integrity advocates, and now a commission tasked with examining potential replacements is preparing to make recommendations to lawmakers. The paperless system was closely scrutinized during last year’snationally … Continue reading
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Who What Why: The big-ticket races in Georgia, which drew national attention, have been decided — but the battle over the controversial way the state runs its elections rages on. A lawsuit contesting the outcome of the lieutenant governor’s race could provide … Continue reading
BuzzFeed: Right before the election, Brian Kemp, at the time Georgia’s secretary of state and the Republican candidate for governor, announced an investigation into state Democrats, claiming they’d hacked him. He said he’d alerted federal authorities. Now, more than two … Continue reading
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