“Audit of Georgia ballots proves that Dominion Voting Machine conspiracy theories are false”
USA Today out with a Monday report on Georgia’s audit of the 2024 elections, completed last week. The full ballot image audit report is here.
Category Archives: voting technology
New Paper–“An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways”
Andrew W. Appel (Princeton, Computer Science) and Philip B. Stark (UC Berkeley, Statistics) have a new paper cautioning about a new software designed to accelerate the count for overseas votes by relying on the internet.
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“Trump’s Allies Revive Debunked Voting Machine Theories”
NYT:
It has been nearly four years since a parade of judges dismissed wild claims from Donald J. Trump and his associates about hacked election machines and a year and a half since a leading machine company obtained a $787.5… Continue reading
“U.S. cybersecurity chief says election systems have ‘never been more secure'”
NPR:
Amid widespread concerns of outside interference influencing the results this year’s presidential election, the head of the country’s cybersecurity agency says election infrastructure is more secure than ever.
State and local election officials across the country have made big… Continue reading
“Georgia Republicans sow doubt about Dominion voting machines in 2020 throwback”
CNN:
Just weeks before early voting begins in Georgia, Republican Party officials and Donald Trump allies are trying to preemptively sow doubt about the viability of Dominion systems used across the key swing state, arguing in court that the machines… Continue reading
Voting Machine Conspiracies Persist
NYT:
Nearly four years later, zealous supporters of former President Donald J. Trump who promoted the conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged its machines to rob him of the 2020 election are still at it.
Even though… Continue reading
“Inside the private pressure campaign to force hand-counting of Arizona ballots”
Votebeat:
Republican lawmakers in Arizona privately pressured county leaders across the state to count ballots by hand instead of using machines, according to previously unreported text messages.
The messages, obtained by Votebeat through public record requests, are a window… Continue reading
“A billionaire is boosting a major defamation lawsuit against Fox News”
WaPo:
Smartmatic, the voting technology company enmeshed in complex defamation lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax, has a powerful new financial ally: billionaire tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman.
Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, has made a multimillion-dollar investment intended in… Continue reading
“Wisconsin judge to weigh letting people with disabilities vote electronically from home in November”
AP:
A Wisconsin judge on Monday is expected to consider whether to allow people with disabilities to vote electronically from home in the swing state this fall.
Disability Rights Wisconsin, the League of Women Voters and four disabled people filed… Continue reading
“Documents detail Republican push to force hand counts in Arizona election”
A Guardian report about the press for hand counts, the product of election denialism that led to criminal charges when supervisors refused to certify results.
I’m old enough to remember when it was the hand counting that was causing … Continue reading
“Texas election laws allow certain ballots to be traced back to voters, official says”
CBS report noting what purport to be decoded ballots of some prominent Texas officials, though I’m not sure whether the culprit is Texas “election laws” or the outer limits of the scope of public records responses. The controversy seems to… Continue reading
“Voting machine contract under scrutiny following discrepancies in Puerto Rico’s primaries”
Yikes.
And also, this is a pretty good and exceedingly timely reminder to wait for the real analysis to figure out what happened and why, before jumping to conclusions.
“Rows and Columns, the County Line, and the ExpressVote XL”
Andrew Appel for Freedom to Tinker:
The judge ruled that the county line “thumb on the scale” is illegal, and in March 2024 ordered New Jersey counties to use an office-block layout in the June primary election. (Fortunately, the… Continue reading