Category Archives: voting technology

“No evidence of exploitation of Dominion voting machine flaws, CISA finds”

May 28, 2022, 3:06 pmelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Washington Post: The federal government has found no evidence that flaws in Dominion voting machines have ever been exploited, including in the 2020 election, according to the executive director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.CISA, an arm of… Continue reading

“Georgia county under scrutiny after claim of post-election breach”

May 13, 2022, 7:10 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo: A former elections supervisor in rural Coffee County, Ga., has told The Washington Post that she opened her offices to a businessman active in the election-denier movement to help investigate results she did not trust in the… Continue reading

“ES&S uses undergraduate project to lobby New York legislature”

May 12, 2022, 8:35 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

This is insane, via Andrew Appel: The New York State Legislature is considering a bill that would ban all-in-one voting machines–that is, voting machines that can both print votes on the ballot, and scan and count votes from… Continue reading

“Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud ‘evidence'”

April 28, 2022, 6:37 amchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

Reuters: Eighteen months after Donald Trump lost the White House, loyal supporters continue to falsely assert that compromised balloting machines across America robbed him of the 2020 election.To stand up that bogus claim, some Trump die-hards are taking the… Continue reading

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