WaPo: The former managers of Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns are leading a new initiative called “Defending Digital Democracy” in the hopes of preventing a repeat of Russia’s 2016 election interference. Robby Mook, Clinton’s 2016 campaign chief, and … Continue reading
Category Archives: voting technology
I have posted this new draft on SSRN (for the pre-APSA event, Protecting Electoral Security and Voting Rights: The 2016 U.S. Elections in Comparative Perspective). Here is the abstract: If the “voting wars” which have broken out across the post-2000 election … Continue reading
Greg Sargent: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which oversees House races, has issued a formal request to its Republican counterpart, asking it to join in showing a “united front” and creating a “joint plan” against any Russian efforts to undermine … Continue reading
Pam’s work has been so important, and with new threats the work of Verified Voting is more important than every. … Continue reading
Important Pam Fessler. … Continue reading
Lisa Rosenbloom for the ACLU. … Continue reading
Pam Fessler for NPR. … Continue reading
Stunning reporting by Kim Zetter for Politico Magazine: As Georgia prepares for a special runoff election this month in one of the country’s most closely watched congressional races, and as new reports emerge about Russian attempts to breach American election systems, … Continue reading
Politico: Hackers will target American voting machines—as a public service, to prove how vulnerable they are. When over 25,000 of them descend on Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas at the end of July for DEFCON, the world’s largest hacking conference, … Continue reading
WSB: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating an alleged data breach at the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University. Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant reports the state voter data kept by the Center for Election Systems was compromised. … Continue reading
Some important folks in the field signing this letter: We enthusiastically support your dedicated leadership efforts to investigate thec ybersecurity vulnerabilities in our country’s 2016 election process. We are a group of volunteer election systems technical experts and citizen advocates for … Continue reading
Baltimore Business Journal reports. … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
I trust Charles Stewart a lot and this is a must-read. … Continue reading
Candice Hoke for The Hill. … Continue reading
Pam Fessler for NPR. … Continue reading
Earlier I suggested that today’s Internet hack which disrupted things could be a dry-run for election day. The NY Times now reports the pernicious and widespread nature of this attack: And in a troubling development, the attack appears to have relied … Continue reading
Sheera Frenkel for BuzzFeed. … Continue reading
CNN: Federal investigators believe Russian hackers were behind cyberattacks on a contractor for Florida’s election system that may have exposed the personal data of Florida voters, according to US officials briefed on the probe. The hack of the Florida contractor … Continue reading
The latest: Simply called “GoVoteBot,” it interacts with users in real time on Facebook Messenger. The bot was designed to be non-partisan, simply supplying information to users without attempting to sway their vote. R/GA and the Ad Council worked with … Continue reading
Top Class Actions: A company that sells vote counting machines is facing a class action lawsuit that alleges its voting systems are subject to unnecessary monitoring and vulnerable to manipulation. Plaintiff Anthony I. Provitola filed the election class action lawsuit … Continue reading
To the Point talks to Ion Sanhcho. … Continue reading
It’s the incompetence, not the malice people: Election Systems & Software (ES&S) has released a report on its findings related to errors in the Hill County Republican Primary. The report comes amidst an ongoing investigation by Attorney General Ken Paxton into … Continue reading
MIT Technology Review: If the risk of hackers meddling with election results is not enough, here’s another reason voting shouldn’t happen on the Internet: the ballots can’t be kept secret. That’s according to a new report from Verified Voting, a … Continue reading
This looks to be super useful to voters, and a fantastic project, but I suspect we will hear some Republican complaints on the partnership with one of the top Democratic law firms: We’re less than three months away from the … Continue reading
Andrew Appel: So the good news is: our election system has many checks and balances so we don’t have to trust the hackable computers to tell us who won. The biggest weaknesses are DRE paperless touchscreen voting machines used in a … Continue reading
Zeynep Tufekci for NYT opinion: Since 1996, Georgia has voted for the Republican candidate in presidential elections, but this year a batch of recent polls have painted a tight race — with some polls even indicating that the Democratic nominee, … Continue reading
Sheera Frankel for Buzzfeed with another chilling report. … Continue reading
Must-read NYT: The Obama administration is weighing new steps to bolster the security of the United States’ voting process against cyberthreats, including whether to designate the electronic ballot-casting system for November’s elections as “critical infrastructure,” Jeh Johnson, the secretary of … Continue reading
Politico reports. … Continue reading
Ugh: Is the election aspect of this hack unique? There have been reports in recent years of cyberattacks or cyberoperations in computer networks in other countries related to elections. Still, if this if a Russian (or some other foreign governmental) operation, I know … Continue reading
Doug Chapin: One of the most eagerly-anticipated projects in elections took another step forward last week as Los Angeles County, CA unveiled the prototype of the new voting system developed through its Voting System Assessment Project (VSAP). The LA Times … Continue reading
That’s the lead story in this month’s issue of NCSL’s The Canvass. … Continue reading
Sari Horwitz for WaPo: The popularity of voting online is growing and will be in place for the presidential election in more than 30 states, primarily for voters living overseas or serving in the military. But security experts and some … Continue reading
Politico reports. … Continue reading
Now live at Pew: an interactive look at how states implemented and offer online voter registration. The tool tracks which states offer online registration and summarizes our survey findings across five topics: legislation, development, features, access, and processing. … Continue reading
U.S. Uncut: Arizona’s Secretary of State has confirmed that election fraud took place in the Arizona primary on March 22. During yesterday’s testimony at the Arizona state capitol in Phoenix, Secretary of State Michele Reagan was asked what her office … Continue reading
Katy Owens Hubler leads off this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading
WaPo: Unfortunately, Utah’s digital election night doesn’t seem to be going as smoothly as Utah Republicans had hoped. While Utah Republicans headed to their caucus in person on Tuesday evening, anyone who had registered online by March 17 can log on … Continue reading
WSJ: In what is expected to be one of the biggest online votes conducted so far in the U.S., Utah residents will have the option of casting ballots in the Republican presidential contest using computers, tablets and smartphones next week. … Continue reading
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading
Stateline reports (via Doug Chapin). … Continue reading
San Jose Mercury News oped (via Doug Chapin). … Continue reading
Doug Chapin has this exactly right. Very troubling on all fronts. … Continue reading
Oh my, Florida: Using a structured query languange.injection, Sinclair and David Levin were able to gain immediate access to a server. From there, they collected the passwords for everyone that works in the Supervisor of Elections office for Lee County. … Continue reading
New issue brief from the Lawyers’ Committee: As of January 2016, 29 states and the District of Columbia have online voter registration (OVR) systems. Two additional states are set to launch OVR in the near future.[i] While OVR represents an … Continue reading
A Chapinblog. … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
BPC: Setting the Standards: What We Need from Our Voting Systems WHEN: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET WHERE: Hyatt Place Nashville Downtown, 301 3rd Avenue South, Nashville, TN, 37201 ➤ REGISTER NOW The Bipartisan Policy … Continue reading
The SF Examiner reports. … Continue reading