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Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise, politicians will philander... And US voting machines will be physically insecure
2019-09-26 22:59

DEF CON dossier reveals: You are not as secure as you imagine The Unites States' electronic ballot boxes are as vulnerable as ever to physical tampering by hackers. So says this year's DEF CON...

Video captures glitching Mississippi voting machines flipping votes
2019-08-29 11:36

A video that shows an electronic machine switching voters' selections has gone viral, underscoring the need for paper audit trails.

Election Security Threats: From Misinformation to Voting Machine Flaws
2019-08-09 12:48

From insecure voting machines to social media misinformation, governments have alot to think about when it comes to securing elections.

Georgia Official Seeks to Replace Criticized Voting Machines
2019-01-24 17:05

Georgia's new elections chief asked lawmakers Wednesday for $150 million to replace the state's outdated electronic voting machines. In doing so, he all but closed the door on a hand-marked paper...

Voting machine manual tells officials to reuse weak passwords
2018-11-07 13:06

The manual turns good advice on its head, telling officials to use, reuse and recycle weak passwords.

Buying Used Voting Machines on eBay
2018-11-01 11:18

This is not surprising: This year, I bought two more machines to see if security had improved. To my dismay, I discovered that the newer model machines -- those that were used in the 2016 election...

Yahoo! $50m! hack! damages! bill!, Russian trolls menaced by Uncle Sam inaction, computer voting-machine UI confusion, and more
2018-10-27 13:19

Plus, GSA shamed for glacial notification pace Roundup This week's headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.…

The DEF CON hackers' report on US voting machine security is just as grim as feared
2018-09-28 01:04

Good thing Congress has been so forceful in improving security Hackers probing America's electronic voting systems have painted an astonishing picture of the state of US election security, less...

Judge: Georgia's voting machines are awful – but go ahead and use them
2018-09-18 23:33

US court says no time to get paper ballots in place for November – eek! A US district court judge has okayed the use of paperless electronic voting machines in Georgia, despite being "gravely...

Georgia's Use of Electronic Voting Machines Allowed for Midterms
2018-09-18 14:13

Judge Amy Totenberg ruled Monday that the state of Georgia's existing plans for the midterm elections to be conducted via some 27,000 Diebold AccuVote DRE touchscreen voting machines must stand....