You can find Judge Totenberg’s extensive and thoughtful opinion at this link. The court issued a preliminary injunction and the state could appeal to the Eleventh Circuit. But this opinion marshals a great deal of evidence as to the problems … Continue reading
Category Archives: voting technology
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. … Continue reading
Brennan Center: In late July, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the Russian government’s attacks on America’s election infrastructure.[1] While the report offered dozens of recommendations related to vast and varied election systems in the United States … Continue reading
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CNN: The top cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security said Friday that backup paper ballots would be a necessary part of 2020 election security.“Ultimately when I look at 2020, the top priority for me is engaging as far and wide as … Continue reading
Kim Zetter for Motherboard. … Continue reading
GPB: Georgia has awarded a massive contract to replace its outdated touchscreen direct-recording electronic voting machines to a new company offering ballot-marking devices with a paper component.Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Monday that Dominion Voting Systems will be the … Continue reading
Law.com: A group of Georgia voters and a nonprofit election integrity organization seeking to force the state to use paper rather than electronic ballots in future elections have accused the secretary of state and governor of destroying evidence in the … Continue reading
NYT: The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded Thursday that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016, an effort more far-reaching than previously acknowledged and one largely undetected by the states and federal officials at the time.But … Continue reading
More on the appointment of Shelby Pierson, from the NYT, NPR, Reuters. … Continue reading
The AP on the nuts and bolts of trying to figure out the right amount of space to upgrade election technology in an unending election environment. … Continue reading
Shelby Pierson gets the nod for a new federal position to serve as the intelligence community’s principal advisor on election security. This bio fits the very general description in the DNI’s press statement, but I’ll confess I’m not sure if … Continue reading
The legislation passed the Senate yesterday, and now heads over to the House. … Continue reading
A WaPo article on a new Brennan Center report diving into how six states (Alabama, Arizona, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania) used 2018 federal election security grants … and the need each has for much more. … Continue reading
Stateline focuses on a lot of questions about the plans for Iowa and Nevada caucuses. … Continue reading
NBC reports on two Microsoft announcements, summarized in this blog post. The headline is that Microsoft is giving away free, open source ElectionGuard software to election machine suppliers. According to the site, it apparently “enables” voting using a touchscreen for … Continue reading
The fight in Pennsylvania continues. … Continue reading
An important story in Washington State about the integration of county registration systems into a newer statewide system. It’s not important because it’s particularly new or surprising (it’s neither), but just as a reminder of the details to be ironed … Continue reading
The Hill reports on Sen. Ron Wyden’s questions of the EAC. Senator Wyden took to the floor yesterday to speak about the issue as well. … Continue reading
An interesting summary in Forbes of the bills on the table. … Continue reading
Mac Warner’s point is absolutely right: in 2016, the most meaningful system hacked was us. Humans were the most vulnerable link. And as for securing the non-human component, election officials know that there’s been an enormous amount of work done. … Continue reading
Slate says ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ … Continue reading
New this morning from the AP. A snippet: An Associated Press analysis has found that like many counties in Pennsylvania, the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, program … Continue reading
On Monday, Rick linked to an AP piece on 2020 Democratic caucus voting by phone in Iowa and Nevada. Steve Rosenfeld has some deeper dives today (Iowa, Nevada) on what may be brake-pumping at the DNC. … Continue reading
More from the AP. The subhead: “North Carolina election officials are learning that private equity firms which don’t disclose whose money they’re investing hold major stakes in voting-machine makers.” … Continue reading
AJC: The insides of Georgia’s voting system will be cracked open for inspection as part of a lawsuit alleging that the state’s elections are vulnerable to inaccuracies, malfunctions and hacking.U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg on Tuesday ordered election officials to allow computer … Continue reading
AP: The case of whether hackers may have tampered with elections in Georgia has taken another strange turn.Nearly two years ago, state lawyers in a closely watched election integrity lawsuit told the judge they intended to subpoena the FBI for … Continue reading
Important Greg Sargent interview with Sen. Wyden. … Continue reading
Sue Halpern must-read. … Continue reading
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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
Roll Call reports. … Continue reading
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
NPR Morning Edition. … Continue reading
Steven Rosenfeld reports. … Continue reading
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
ABA event coming March 18. … Continue reading
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