Security News > 2020 > October > Election Security: Beyond Mail-In Voting

That presents a fresh set of security concerns, which include a lack of transparency over the security measures and voter auditing applied to each type of voting method.

The lack of resources needed to adapt and secure the mail-in voting process by the early November election date is has been another cause for concern.

If security experts and the wider public focus too much time and attention on trying to secure this year's predominately mail-in voting infrastructure, it may give criminal hackers the opportunity to take advantage of other areas and systems that are just as important.

There are many areas of the election process that criminal hackers can target to influence election results - not just hacking the outcome of the vote but ultimately hacking democracy.

The worst potential outcome of this or any election and the ultimate hack is to create distrust in the voting system so that fewer voters will participate in the election.

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https://threatpost.com/election-security-mail-in-voting/160502/