Four senior senators have called on the largest U.S. voting machine makers to explain why they continue to sell devices with “known vulnerabilities,” ahead of upcoming critical elections. The letter, sent Wednesday, calls on election equipment makers ES&S, Dominion Voting, and Hart InterCivic to explain why they continue to sell decades-old machines, which the senators […]
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Justice Department: No evidence of vote hacking during 2018 election
There is “no evidence to date” that any foreign government had a material impact on voting machines or infrastructure during the 2018 midterm elections, according to a new classified report sent to the president. That’s the view from the Justice Department and Homeland Security, which were commissioned to report back following an order from President […]
View More Justice Department: No evidence of vote hacking during 2018 electionPolitiscope, an app to track Congressional voting records and bills, launches on android devices
Last September, two former National Football League players launched an app called Politiscope to track the voting records of members of Congress and the bills that they were introducing — and provide non-partisan information about what those bills and votes would mean to voters. The pro-football-playing brothers, Walter Powell Jr. and Brandon Williams, launched the […]
View More Politiscope, an app to track Congressional voting records and bills, launches on android devicesThis is what Americans think about the state of election security right now
A wide-ranging new poll yields some useful insight into how worried the average American feels about election threats as the country barrels toward midterms. The survey, conducted by NPR and researchers with Marist College, polled 949 adult US residents in early September across regions of the country, contacting participants through both landlines and mobile devices. The […]
View More This is what Americans think about the state of election security right nowDemocrats introduce an election security bill that proposes paper trails and mandatory audits
As primaries ramp up in states across the U.S., concerns about election cybersecurity are mounting too. This week, a group of Democratic senators introduced a bill to mitigate some of the well-established risks that the nation’s uneven mix of voting machines and election systems poses. The new bill, known as the Protecting American Votes and […]
View More Democrats introduce an election security bill that proposes paper trails and mandatory auditsA cyberattack knocked a Tennessee county’s election website offline during voting
After a distributed denial-of-service attack knocked some servers offline during a local election in Tennessee this week, Knox County is working with an outside security contractor to investigate the cause. The attack took the Knox County Election Commission site displaying results of the county mayoral primary offline during Tuesday night voting. The county resorted to […]
View More A cyberattack knocked a Tennessee county’s election website offline during votingSierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election
The citizens of Sierra Leone went to the polls on March 7 but this time something was different: the country recorded votes at 70% of the polling to the blockchain using a technology that is the first of its kind in actual practice. The tech, created by Leonardo Gammar of Agora, anonymously stored votes in […]
View More Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based electionA new bipartisan Senate bill seeks to bolster US election security at the state level
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate has introduced a bill designed to protect the technical integrity of American elections as the nation moves toward midterm season. Introduced in the Senate, the bill known as the Secure Elections Act….
View More A new bipartisan Senate bill seeks to bolster US election security at the state levelA new bipartisan Senate bill seeks to bolster US election security at the state level
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate has introduced a bill designed to protect the technical integrity of American elections as the nation moves toward midterm season. Introduced in the Senate, the bill known as the Secure Elections Act….
View More A new bipartisan Senate bill seeks to bolster US election security at the state levelAlabama Supreme Court blocks order to preserve digital voting records
Following an eleventh hour order instructing voting officials in Alabama to keep the digital ballots generated in Tuesday’s controversial Senate election, the state’s Supreme Court has issued a stay to block that decision. The order to preserve the records was issued by the Montgomery County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon — less than 24 hours before voting was set to… Read More
Voting machine makers explain what they do (and don’t do) to make sure no one hacks the vote
As the House and Senate continue to examine the wave of disinformation around the 2016 presidential election, concerns around the security of voting systems examine something even more germane to the U.S. democratic system. Read More
View More Voting machine makers explain what they do (and don’t do) to make sure no one hacks the vote