“Can Adversaries Hack Our Elections? Can We Stop Them?”
The UCI Cybersecurity and Research Institute is holding this event on March 13, with keynote James Carville.
Category Archives: voting technology
“The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper; Barbara Simons believes there is only one safe voting technology.”
Nice profile of Barbara and Verified Voting in the December Atlantic.
More Reasons for Concern About the Integrity of Georgia’s Election Administration
AP:
A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.
The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at… Continue reading
“Election Security Task Force to Hold Second Public Forum”
Details on Oct. 24 meeting.
“Hack-Vulnerable Voting Machines a ‘National Security Threat,’ Experts Warn”
Celeste Katz:
It happened in Las Vegas, but the weaknesses in U.S. voting equipment uncovered during a summer hackathon are too important to stay there, experts say. They’re a matter of national security.
A new report breaks down the lessons… Continue reading
“EAC’s Brian Hancock On ‘The Last Mile’ In Election Security”
Doug Chapin covers Brian Hancock on the local tip of the electoral cybersecurity spear.
“If Russia Comes Calling, Feds and States United for Election Cybersecurity”
Here’s a more optimistic assessment of electoral cybersecurity preparedness than yesterday’s version; it’s focused on the 28-member federal-state Election Critical Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council.
“Hacker study: Russia could get into U.S. voting machines”
A Politico preview of the report coming tomorrow from the DEFCON hacker conference in July, about the security of voting machines.
Voting system security is vitally important, and I wish that more attention were paid to the market for and… Continue reading
“These Groups Offer to Secure the Next Elections From Hackers”
Fortune has a different scoop from the same report:
Ethical hackers will team up with U.S. governors, academics and others to help prevent election results from being hacked, according to a person familiar with the plan.
The coalition’s members include… Continue reading
“Russians Still Have An Open Path To U.S. Election Subversion”
An unfortunate Newsweek headline for an article about filling Homeland Security positions to assist with cyberdefense.
The federal government could certainly play a role in assisting on cybersecurity matters, and probably should do so. But aside from the fact that… Continue reading
Trouble finding vendor to build Travis County voting system
There have been a few efforts to supplement the existing voting system market with new systems, built more-or-less ground-up by counties with a blue-sky approach. The counties start with a list of attributes and functions rather than grafting new features… Continue reading
“Lawmakers begin talks about how to replace Georgia’s aging vote system”
“Virginia scraps touch-screen voting machines as election for governor looms”
WaPo:
Concerned about potential hacking two months away from the state’s closely watched gubernatorial election, Virginia’s state Board of Elections voted Friday to replace any touchscreen voting machines before November’s elections.
The three-member board voted unanimously to decertify Direct Recording… Continue reading
“Virginia moves to eliminate voting machines considered top hacking target”
Good news via Politico:
Virginia’s election office on Friday urged the state’s election supervisors to prohibit touchscreen voting machines before November’s elections, saying the devices posed unacceptable digital risks.
If approved, the move would represent one of the most dramatic… Continue reading