Security News > 2020 > August > Black Hat 2020: Scaling Mail-In Voting Spawns Broad Challenges

Scaling up mail-in voting, Blaze said, with less than 100 days left before the election, is an undertaking that, while not impossible, presents many challenges.

Blaze, who is McDevitt Chair in Computer Science and Law at Georgetown, chairman of the Tor Project and co-creator of the Voting Village at DEFCON, took the virtual "Stage" at Black Hat 2020 on Wednesday for the first-day keynote.

He discussed how the global coronavirus pandemic has created a national emergency on the voting front, driving a need for scaling up accessible, COVID-19-safe election mechanisms between now and November.

"There are states that that rely on mailing voting very heavily, in places like Oregon. But that said, in most places, we still by and large vote in person."

Is there another path instead of scaling mail-in voting or accepting that millions may be disenfranchised if in-person is the only available method to cast a ballot?

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https://threatpost.com/black-hat-mail-in-voting-challenges/158075/