“Reliability of Voting Machines Doubted”
AP on the controversy over BMDs.
Category Archives: voting technology
“This could be Microsoft’s most important product in 2020. If it works; ElectionGuard isn’t designed to make voting machines safe from hackers. It’s meant to make hacking them pointless.”
“The Cybersecurity 202: Iowa’s app fiasco worries mobile voting advocates”
Georgetown Conference Friday: “Election Integrity in the Networked Information Era”
Well-timed conference at Georgetown Friday that I unfortunately was unable to attend. It looks very important.
“Behind The Iowa Caucus Crash, A Simple Technology Glitch”
Steven Rosenfeld explains.
Bad Election Integrity News Out of Georgia: “Hand recounts of Georgia’s paper ballots barred by election proposal”
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
“California OKs highly questioned LA County voting system”
“The Technology 202: Nonprofit expands free security services for campaigns as election season heats up”
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
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”
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
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”
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