Category Archives: voting technology

“Judge dismisses election security case but voices ‘concerns’ about Georgia’s voting computers”

April 1, 2025, 12:34 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

AJC: A federal judge has dismissed an epic court case challenging Georgia’s touchscreen voting system, ending the seven-year lawsuit that uncovered election security vulnerabilities and a breach in Coffee County. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg closed the case Monday… Continue reading

“The Trump admin cut election security funds. Now officials fear future elections may be ‘less secure.’”

March 31, 2025, 7:33 amchicanery, voting technologyRick Hasen

Politico: The Trump administration’s recent efforts to gut funding and personnel that support state and local election security efforts have left officials deeply concerned about their ability to guarantee physical and cyber security during the voting process. This swift overhauling… Continue reading

“U.S. agency has stopped supporting states on election security, official confirms”

March 11, 2025, 1:58 pmelection subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

Votebeat: The federal government has halted election security activities and ended funding for the system that alerts state officials of election security threats across state lines, a representative of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told state election officials… Continue reading

“Election security aid is on the chopping block, rattling local officials”

March 5, 2025, 1:20 pmchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

NBC News: State and local election officials who have grown to rely on the federal government’s cybersecurity assistance fear that the Trump administration may permanently block that aid by Thursday. Such funding, which began in President Donald Trump’s first… Continue reading

“The Trump Administration Is Going After Our Elections Too”

February 18, 2025, 3:05 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

Larry Norden and Derek Tisler at Slate: In its crusade against federal agencies, the Trump administration is targeting our election system, making potentially dangerous reductions to protections that help keep elections free, fair, and secure. On Friday, the acting director… Continue reading

“Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work”

February 15, 2025, 2:40 pmchicanery, voting technologyRick Hasen

Eric Geller for Wired: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years, WIRED… Continue reading

“States Must Take the Lead on Election Security”

December 19, 2024, 5:27 pmelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Derek Tisler Brennan Center brief: American elections face increasingly complex cyber and physical security threats from foreign adversaries, emerging technology, and escalating risks of political violence. Fortifying election systems against these threats is essential. Historically, state and local governments have… Continue reading

“The Top Cybersecurity Agency in the US Is Bracing for Donald Trump”

December 16, 2024, 11:13 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

Eric Geller for Wired: Donald Trump helped create the US government’s cybersecurity agency during his first term as president. Six years later, employees of that agency are afraid of what he’ll do with it once he retakes office. Trump’s alliances… Continue reading

“Donald Trump Announces Plan to Change Elections”

December 7, 2024, 9:02 pmelection administration, voter id, voter registration, voting technologyJustin Levitt

Sort of. The Newsweek headline should really read “Donald Trump Announces Policy Goals” for elections, since all of what he’s proposing would require legislation: “We’re gonna do things that have been really needed for a long time,” he said. “And… Continue reading

“US Postal Service touts timely delivery of mail ballots despite concerns from election officials”

December 2, 2024, 11:38 pmabsentee ballots, voting technologyUSPSJustin Levitt

Here’s the AP report on a 99.88% rate for delivery within one week of 99.22 million ballots. Along with the USPS press release and more detailed report.

“Audit of Georgia ballots proves that Dominion Voting Machine conspiracy theories are false”

December 2, 2024, 11:36 pmfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyauditsJustin Levitt

USA Today out with a Monday report on Georgia’s audit of the 2024 elections, completed last week. The full ballot image audit report is here.

New Paper–“An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways”

November 20, 2024, 4:38 amvoting technologyNew ScholarshipTabatha Abu El-Haj

Andrew W. Appel (Princeton, Computer Science) and Philip B. Stark (UC Berkeley, Statistics) have a new paper cautioning about a new software designed to accelerate the count for overseas votes by relying on the internet. . . . .… Continue reading

“Trump’s Allies Revive Debunked Voting Machine Theories”

October 23, 2024, 4:00 pmfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT: It has been nearly four years since a parade of judges dismissed wild claims from Donald J. Trump and his associates about hacked election machines and a year and a half since a leading machine company obtained a $787.5… Continue reading

“U.S. cybersecurity chief says election systems have ‘never been more secure'”

October 20, 2024, 7:56 pmchicanery, voting technologyRick Hasen

NPR: Amid widespread concerns of outside interference influencing the results this year’s presidential election, the head of the country’s cybersecurity agency says election infrastructure is more secure than ever. State and local election officials across the country have made big… Continue reading