“Exit Interview: Verified Voting’s Pam Smith Smith weighing future options, but plans to stay involved”
Pam’s work has been so important, and with new threats the work of Verified Voting is more important than every.
Category Archives: voting technology
“Making U.S. Elections More Secure Wouldn’t Cost Much But No One Wants To Pay”
“Transparency is Solution to Shameful Lack of Security For U.S. Voting Systems Revealed by NSA Leak”
“If Voting Machines Were Hacked, Would Anyone Know?”
Today’s Must Read from Kim Zetter for Politico: “Will the Georgia Special Election Get Hacked?”
Stunning reporting by Kim Zetter for Politico Magazine:
As Georgia prepares for a special runoff election this month in one of the country’s most closely watched congressional races, and as new reports emerge about Russian attempts to breach American election… Continue reading
“Top hacker conference to target voting machines”
Politico:
Hackers will target American voting machines—as a public service, to prove how vulnerable they are.
When over 25,000 of them descend on Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas at the end of July for DEFCON, the world’s largest hacking conference,… Continue reading
Georgia: “FBI investigating data breach involving state voters”
WSB:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating an alleged data breach at the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University.
Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant reports the state voter data kept by the Center for Election Systems… Continue reading
Election Experts’ Letter to Senator Graham on Investigating Cyberhacking
Some important folks in the field signing this letter:
We enthusiastically support your dedicated leadership efforts to investigate thec ybersecurity vulnerabilities in our country’s 2016 election process. We are a group of volunteer election systems technical experts and citizen… Continue reading
“University of Maryland students win cash prize for e-voting security idea”
“Georgia, DHS At Odds After Alleged Attempted “Hack””
“Some thoughts about the reports of supposed evidence of election irregularities in MI, PA, and WI”
I trust Charles Stewart a lot and this is a must-read.
“Election integrity: Missing components to remedy”
Candice Hoke for The Hill.
“Some Machines Are Flipping Votes But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Rigged”
If Today’s Internet Outage/Hacking Was a Dry Run for Election Day, Things Could Get Very Bad
Earlier I suggested that today’s Internet hack which disrupted things could be a dry-run for election day. The NY Times now reports the pernicious and widespread nature of this attack:
And in a troubling development, the attack appears to have… Continue reading