Category Archives: voting technology

“New Georgia voting machines win final vote in state House”

March 14, 2019, 8:43 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

AJC: The Georgia House gave final legislative approval Thursday to buying a new $150 million touchscreen-and-paper ballot statewide voting system, sending the bill to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature.The House voted 101-69 on the proposal for Georgia voters… Continue reading

“Hacking Elections: Cyber Threats, Vulnerabilities, and the Way Forward”

March 13, 2019, 10:10 amchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

ABA event coming March 18.

Voting Machine Vendors Looking Defensive, Giving Answers Undermining Confidence in Voting Machine Security

March 11, 2019, 11:56 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Thread: 1/I have Dominion's response to Friday's letter from NY Board of Elections. A rare glimpse into anti-security mindset of voting machine vendors. Hacking concerns may delay Westchester's $6.1M plan to buy new voting machines https://t.co/zmoTv93PJu via @lohudREAD THIS… Continue reading

“Deny, defy, disdain: Georgia election chief adopts familiar voting security strategy”

March 11, 2019, 8:06 amchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Politico: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is no longer the state’s chief election official — but his combative style in defending its insecure voting technology lives on.Fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, Kemp’s successor as secretary of state, has been pursuing the… Continue reading

“Reexamination of an all-in-one voting machine”

March 10, 2019, 11:05 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

Andrew Appel at Freedom to Tinker.

House Oversight Requests Documents re 2018 Georgia Elections

March 6, 2019, 3:07 pmchicanery, provisional ballots, voter registration, voting, Voting Rights Act, voting technologyJustin Levitt

The House Oversight Committee asked Georgia Governor Brian Kemp today for a set of documents related to voters’ difficulties in Georgia in 2018. So far, it’s just a request. And Kemp appears unimpressed.

“States Are Trying to Stop Election Meddling. But the Real Risk is Public Confidence”

March 6, 2019, 3:01 pmelection administration, voting technologyJustin Levitt

TIME on the efforts of many election officials to protect the voting process against interference. And the Brennan Center on the work still to be done with respect to voting systems.

“How much should Florida trust technology in conducting elections?”

March 5, 2019, 8:50 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

An important question, not just for Florida. Tampa Bay Times: A computer program might have avoided the entire 2018 recount fiasco and saved South Florida election officials days of embarrassment last year, if not their jobs.Had the law allowed… Continue reading

“State election officials opt for 2020 voting machines vulnerable to hacking”

March 2, 2019, 4:42 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

Politico reports on Georgia, Delaware, and Philadelphia’s plans to buy ballot-marking devices that “allow voters to use a touchscreen to select their choices” and then “print a slip of paper with the vote both displayed in plain text and embedded… Continue reading

“Biometrics and vote-by-phone: Is the fix to Florida’s election woes at our fingertips?”

February 28, 2019, 9:29 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Deep dive by David Smiley in the Miami Herald.

“Tech Is Not the Enemy”

February 21, 2019, 8:08 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

Adam Ambrogi: With the 2018 midterm elections, the United States yet again found itself struggling to shape policies around how it casts and counts votes. Alarm bells were set off by everything from voting machine paper jams to the … Continue reading

“The Cybersecurity 202: Election security is going to be the hot new Democratic campaign issue in 2020”

February 21, 2019, 7:30 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo: Election security is already emerging as a key talking point on the campaign trail as Democrats offer up policies to secure votes from potential tampering and tout their own cybersecurity records — a sign they think this could… Continue reading

“The online voting revolution is here — how are we going to be able to trust it?”

February 15, 2019, 7:42 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Steven Rosenfeld writes.

“Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling”

February 14, 2019, 8:49 amchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Daily Beast: Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former Department of Homeland Security officials. And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare… Continue reading