Category Archives: voting technology

Susan Greenhalgh and Philip Stark: “Setting the record straight on the security review in the Georgia voting machine lawsuit”

March 4, 2022, 6:55 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Susan Greenhalgh and Philip Stark: Last month, Election Law Blog highlighted a Votebeat newsletter published January 29 by Jessica Huseman, a response to a story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The newsletter… Continue reading

“US cybersecurity agency reviews hacking risk to Georgia voting system”

February 11, 2022, 9:06 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

AJC: A confidential report alleging Georgia’s voting touchscreens could be hacked is now being reviewed by the federal government.The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency wrote in a court filing late Thursday it will assess potential vulnerabilities and decide… Continue reading

“The missing context in the debate about Halderman’s Dominion report”

January 29, 2022, 7:19 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

Jessica Huseman Votebeat column: Experts who have reviewed Halderman’s report, such as Juan Gilbert, the University of Florida’s computer science department chair, have not found it to be nearly as dire as Halderman has publicly suggested. As part… Continue reading

AJC Must-Read: “Secret report finds flaw in Georgia voting system, but state shows no interest”

January 26, 2022, 6:57 amchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Mark Niesse for the AJC: A confidential report alleges that hackers could flip votes if they gained access to Georgia’s touchscreens, drawing interest from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Louisiana election officials and Fox News.One key agency hasn’t asked… Continue reading

“USPS built and secretly tested a mobile voting system before 2020; Such systems are widely considered insecure against hacking”

December 13, 2021, 1:40 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo: The U.S. Postal Service pursued a project to build and secretly test a blockchain-based mobile phone voting system before the 2020 election, experimenting with a technology that the government’s own cybersecurity agency says can’t be trusted to securely… Continue reading

“Experts call for rigorous audit to protect California recall”

September 3, 2021, 7:13 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

AP: A group of election security experts on Thursday called for a rigorous audit of the upcoming recall election for California’s governor after copies of systems used to run elections across the country were released publicly.Their letter sent to … Continue reading

“G.O.P. Election Reviews Create a New Kind of Security Threat”

September 1, 2021, 1:05 pmchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT: Late one night in May, after surveillance cameras had inexplicably been turned off, three people entered the secure area of a warehouse in Mesa County, Colo., where crucial election equipment was stored. They copied hard drives and election-management software… Continue reading

“He Was the ‘Perfect Villain’ for Voting Conspiracists”

August 24, 2021, 3:33 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT Magazine deep dive: Eric Coomer had an election-security job at Dominion Voting Systems. He also had posted anti-Trump messages on Facebook. What happened next ruined his life.

“Experts Warn Recent ‘Insider’ Theft, Leak of Vote System Software Imperils CA Recall Election: ‘BradCast’ 8/18/2021”

August 19, 2021, 8:06 amchicanery, voting technologyRick Hasen

Brad Blog: We’ve been covering this story in detail over the past week, as both the national media and California media haven’t covered it at all. But they should. Colorado media finally jumped in, a bit, this week… Continue reading

“Dominion Sues Newsmax, One America News Network, Others Over Election Claims”

August 10, 2021, 12:37 pmelection administration, voting technologyDerek Muller

Wall Street Journal on the latest Dominion lawsuit: One of the largest voting-machine companies in the U.S. on Tuesday sued two conservative media networks and a businessman it said had defamed it by spreading accusations that it rigged the 2020… Continue reading

“Audit finds folds behind New Hampshire election miscount”

July 14, 2021, 12:56 pmabsentee ballots, voting technologyDan Tokaji

AP: “Auditors concluded that miscounts in a New Hampshire election were primarily caused by the way ballots were folded, according to a report released Tuesday.” You can find the report here.

“U.S. Election Assistance Commission Sued for Improperly Loosening Voting System Standards After Private Meetings With Voting Machine Manufacturers”

July 13, 2021, 12:57 pmvoting technologyDan Tokaji

Free Speech for People press release. Update – AP reports: “Key elements of the first federal technology standards for voting equipment in 15 years should be scrapped because language that would have banned the devices from connecting to the… Continue reading

“The stampede away from Trump’s voting-machine claims continues apace, as legal liability looms for allies”

July 13, 2021, 3:58 amfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyDan Tokaji

WaPo: Among the many wild conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, few rank as high when it comes to both baselessness and reach as those involving voting machines. The theory that voting machines were programmed to steal the election… Continue reading