Category Archives: voting technology
“Ban on counting votes from computer codes passes Georgia Senate”
AJC:
The Georgia Senate voted along party lines Tuesdayto abandon the use of bar codes on ballots. Instead, ballots would be counted from the printed text or filled-in ovals next to candidate names.
Republicans supporting the bill said it would… Continue reading
“‘Serious consequences’: Company warns Johnson County sheriff over election investigation”
KC Star:
The election software company at the center of Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden’s long-running elections investigation hit back on Monday, warning the sheriff that a baseless investigation results in “serious consequences.”
“I fully recognize that Sheriff Hayden… Continue reading
“Trump allies seek to co-opt coming election-security case to bolster 2020 lie”
WaPo must-read:
Mike Lindell, the flamboyant pillow magnate, has spent millions promoting the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump — a claim that has been roundly rejected by cybersecurity experts, government officials and numerous courts. But… Continue reading
“Voting experts warn of ‘serious threats’ for 2024 from election equipment software breaches”
AP:
An effort to access voting system software in several states and provide it to allies of former President Donald Trump as they sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election has raised “serious threats” ahead of next year’s… Continue reading
“Voting machine trouble in Pennsylvania county triggers alarm ahead of 2024”
Politico:
Voters in the swing county of Northampton, Pennsylvania, mostly moved on after their new touchscreen voting machines glitched during a down-ballot judge’s race in 2019.
But when a similar issue cropped up earlier this month, it triggered a backlash… Continue reading
“You Can Now Read the GBI’s Coffee Co. Report in Full” and Not Everyone is Happy
Over at Lawfare.
Response from the Coalition for Good Governance:
CGG and its legal and voting system security advisors are extremely disappointed in the quality of the report, because of its lack of depth, delayed timing, accuracy and limited scope.… Continue reading
“Show Me the Ballots! To combat rampant disinformation and public distrust in elections, a bipartisan group of politicians is advocating for a radical form of transparency: post all cast ballots online.”
Steven Rosenfeld for Washington Monthly.
“Prosecutors are focused on a rural Georgia county in Trump’s 2020 election case. Here’s why”
LA Times:
They were running out of time and needed a Hail Mary.
Joe Biden had won the electoral college vote in the 2020 presidential election. And with less than three weeks before Congress was set to certify the results… Continue reading
“Why Did Sidney Powell Plead Guilty?”
New Yorker:
In rural Coffee County, Georgia, three and a half hours southeast of Atlanta, at least a few employees of the election office agreed. After a recount of Georgia’s votes was completed, on December 4th, the county’s elections supervisor,… Continue reading
“Inside Mike Lindell’s ‘plan’ to sound false cyber-attack alarms at local polls”
Steven Rosenfeld:
Lindell’s quest is decidedly quixotic, beyond the fringe to some, particularly in light of outsized voting-fraud claims made by right-wing election vigilantes, such as True the Vote, that have consistently withered under scrutiny and failed to materialize around… Continue reading
We’ve Issued a Major New Report, “24 for ’24: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech for Fair and Legitimate 2024 Elections”
Back in March, the UCLA Law Safeguarding Democracy Project held a conference, Can American Democracy Survive the 2024 Elections?
Following the conference some of the participants met as an ad hoc committee to consider recommendations in law, politics, media, and… Continue reading
“What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?; A detailed look back at the computer intrusion that features prominently in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election interference indictment”
Lawfare deep dive by Anna Bower:
Days before the forensics team sets foot in Douglas, which is about 130 miles southwest of Savannah, voters had arrived at the elections office to mark their ballots in the state’s runoff election for… Continue reading
The UK Electoral Commission Reports Serious Cyber Hack, Disclosure of Voter Information
This looks most unfortunate.