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
Category Archives: voting technology
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
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
Andrew Appel at Freedom to Tinker. … Continue reading
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
Steven Rosenfeld writes. … Continue reading
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
Steven Rosenfeld reports. … Continue reading
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
Steven Rosenfeld analysis. … Continue reading
Miles Park for NPR. … Continue reading
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
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
NYT deep dive. … Continue reading
Jennifer Cohn in NYRB. … Continue reading
Politico reports. … Continue reading
Derek Muller at the HLR Blog. … Continue reading
Release: Tonight, the Texas Civil Rights Project (“TCRP”) sent a letter to the Secretary of State asking that his office take immediate action to inform Texans regarding the straight-ticket voting issues on the Hart eSlate voting machines. The letter asks … Continue reading
John Fortier in Roll Call: Don’t let worries about election security keep you from going to the polls. The American voting system is in a better place than it has ever been, and added layers of protection ensure that votes … Continue reading
Andrew Appel blogs. … Continue reading
Larry Schwartztol oped in The Hill. … Continue reading
Release: Today, leading experts in the field of election security released a report outlining the serious and unaddressed threat to the integrity of the nation’s elections and democracy posed by the continued use of online voting in 32 states. The … Continue reading
William Roberts has this article in Washington Lawyer. … Continue reading
BREAKING: Federal judge in Atlanta denies motion for preliminary injunction to force the state of Georgia to switch to paper ballots for the 2018 midterms. But Judge Totenberg warned the state "further delay is not tolerable" in confronting election … Continue reading
Jamila Benkato blogs. … Continue reading
WaPo: Logan Lamb, a cybersecurity sleuth, thought he was conducting an innocuous Google search to pull up information on Georgia’s centralized system for conducting elections. He was taken aback when the query turned up a file with a list of voters and … Continue reading
Andrew Appel blogs. … Continue reading
The State Board’s unanimous decision pertains to the subject of an ongoing lawsuit as well. Independent of the merits, it’s awfully close to the election to be making a statewide change of this magnitude. … Continue reading
McClatchy reports. … Continue reading
BBC News reports. … Continue reading
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