Category Archives: voting technology

Bad Election Integrity News Out of Georgia: “Hand recounts of Georgia’s paper ballots barred by election proposal”

January 31, 2020, 7:56 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

AJC: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has repeatedly said paper ballots will give Georgia voters “a physical recount.” But under a proposed elections rule, the only physical part of the recount would occur when poll workers feed ballots into… Continue reading

New USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative Launched

January 27, 2020, 7:51 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Details.

“California OKs highly questioned LA County voting system”

January 26, 2020, 6:31 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

AP reports.

“The Technology 202: Nonprofit expands free security services for campaigns as election season heats up”

January 24, 2020, 7:20 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo reports.

City of Beverly Hills Sues Los Angeles County Over New BMD Voting Machine Design That Could Give Great Advantage to First Four Candidates Listed on the Ballot

January 23, 2020, 5:02 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

You can find the emergency petition here. Particularly concerning are the allegations in sections 22-23 of the complaint:

“Resist Push for Online Ballot Box”

January 23, 2020, 8:09 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Seattle Times editorial: The ubiquity of online life comes with devastating vulnerabilities. Even one of the world’s richest men, Jeff Bezos, is reportedly not safe from hackers of electronic devices.Despite this well-established risk, Washington elections officials are moving in disjointed… Continue reading

Criticisms of New Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) Hits New Los Angeles County Voting System

January 21, 2020, 8:11 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

So far, most of the coverage of BMDs (voting machines in which voters cast their votes on a touchscreen, the machine spits out a ballot listing the voter’s choices and produces a bar code/QR code for a ballot reading machine… Continue reading

Today’s Must-Read: “Hackers Are Coming for the 2020 Election — And We’re Not Ready”

January 17, 2020, 9:56 amelection administration, Election Meltdown, voting technologyRick Hasen

Andy Kroll for Mother Jones: Are we prepared going into the 2020 election? After seven months of reporting, interviewing more than 40 experts as well as current and former government officials and reviewing thousands of pages of records, the… Continue reading

“FBI plans to notify states about local election breaches”

January 17, 2020, 7:16 amchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

AP reports.

“Despite Election Security Fears, Iowa Caucuses Will Use New Smartphone App”

January 15, 2020, 8:28 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

NPR: Iowa’s Democratic Party plans to use a new Internet-connected smartphone app to help calculate and transmit results during the state’s caucuses next month, Iowa Public Radio and NPR have confirmed.Party leaders say they decided to opt for that… Continue reading

“‘Online and vulnerable’: Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet”

January 11, 2020, 6:05 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

NBC: [A] team of election security experts say that last summer, they discovered some systems are, in fact, online.“We found over 35 [voting systems] had been left online and we’re still continuing to find more,” Kevin Skoglund, a senior… Continue reading

Yesterday’s Voting Equipment Hearing: Vendors Ask for More Regulation

January 10, 2020, 4:10 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

Bloomberg Law: The infiltration by foreign countries like China into election voting equipment is emerging as a growing concern among vendors, who are actually asking for more federal regulation as they grapple with a lack of domestic suppliers producing… Continue reading

Today’s House Hearing on Election Security

January 9, 2020, 8:01 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

Going on now before the House Administration Committee, with testimony from the CEOs of the three largest voting equipment vendors. Expect a grilling.

Are Ballot Marking Devices Secure?

January 8, 2020, 6:39 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

WaPo on a study by Alex Halderman and other researchers at the University of Michigan. Here’s the abstract of the paper: Ballot marking devices (BMDs) allow voters to select candidates on a computer kiosk, which prints a paper ballot that… Continue reading