Election Security
Foreign interests aren’t done trying to sow chaos and amplify American divisions
The four who were flagged likely hadn’t intended to vote twice, officials say.
After ‘activist rulemaking’ in Georgia, experts are still confident officials can thwart local efforts to interfere with finalizing presidential results.
Four voters in St. Clair Shores allegedly cast two ballots in the primary, but they were quickly flagged by the local clerk’s office, and police are investigating.
The real vulnerabilities are not the holes DEF CON uncovers, but more boring things, such as chain-of-custody procedures and oversight.
Kevin Cavanaugh, a longtime critic of the county elections department, says he found ‘strong evidence’ of cheating. County officials say the election went fine.
Laura Pressley claims to have found a way to link voters to their ballots. But she won’t make it public, and experts says her proposed solution could make things worse.
Brief switch to paper records keeps the lines moving. State has a remedy in place.
They’ve been confronting the threat of politically motivated violence for years. Now, they must go further to protect and reassure voters.
As systems come back online, officials must figure out how to protect against a catastrophic breakdown in November.
But some clerks and legal experts aren’t convinced that the attorney general’s guidance will withstand challenges.
The burden will fall on local election officials to determine which records they’re obligated to release or redact.
The judge’s decision in an ongoing lawsuit puts the Wisconsin Elections Commission on a tight timeline to implement the technology.
Detectives in Maricopa County arrested the temporary employee after finding the security fob in his house. Now all machines need to be reprogrammed and tested.
An impending Supreme Court ruling may help define the limits of the First Amendment, and the government’s power to police online falsehoods.
The request to the U.S. Department of Justice comes after Texas undermined ballot secrecy in the name of election transparency.
The paint just dried on the county’s new elections building. Will new people in a new place pull off a successful election?
The action comes after Votebeat and The Texas Tribune confirmed that some voters’ choices can later be identified through legally available records.
Election officials are running tests and soliciting advice on handling the extra paper.
‘What we're seeing right now is that conflict between transparency and secrecy.’