Ohio GOP Secretary of State orders secret, last minute, unaudited software...
Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has asked voting machine giant ES&S to install last-minute, unverified, custom firmware updates on the state's voting machines. This is highly...
View ArticleWhy Internet voting is a terrible idea, explained in small words anyone can...
In this 20 minute video, Princeton computer science prof Andrew Appel lays out the problems with Internet-based voting in crisp, nontechnical language that anyone can understand. Appel is a hero of...
View ArticleIf the 2016 election is hacked, it's because no one listened to these people
Ever since the Supreme Court ordered the nation's voting authorities to get their act together in 2002 in the wake of Bush v Gore, tech companies have been flogging touchscreen voting machines to...
View ArticleElectronic voting machines suck, the comprehensive 2016 election edition
It's been thirteen years since we started writing here about the shenanigans of the electronic voting machine industry, who were given a gift when, after the contested 2000 elections, Congress and the...
View ArticleWhat's worse than shitty, hacked voting machines? Unauditable, shitty voting...
The news of attempts by Russian hackers to compromise US voting systems will forever throw into question the results of close US elections -- but that's not just because voting machines are security...
View ArticleThe 2016 elections taught us to watch for attacks that undermine the...
Princeton computer scientist and former White House Deputy CTO Ed Felten (previously) writes about the security lessons of the 2016 election: first, that other nation-states are more aggressive than...
View ArticleSomeone wiped a key server in Georgia right after voters filed a lawsuit over...
Georgia's voting machines are among the worst, most hackable in the nation, and that's why a "diverse group of election reform advocates" including the Coalition for Good Governance sued the state to...
View ArticleHere's everything that's wrong with America's insecure electronic voting...
The University of Pennsylvania's Matt Blaze (previously) is a legendary figure in cryptography and security circles; most recently he convened Defcon's Vote Hacking Village where security experts with...
View ArticleState of Georgia goes to court to defend voting machines that recorded 243%...
A federal lawsuit brought by voting security activists against the State of Georgia has revealed breathtaking defects in the state's notoriously terrible voting machines -- and, coincidentally, the...
View ArticleLA County will switch to all open source vote-counting machines
California voting officials have certified an open source vote-counting package for use in the upcoming LA elections, in the first of a series of planned improvements to the County's voting system...
View ArticleUS voting machine vendors and officials insist that it's OK to build wireless...
I've been fighting with voting machine vendors since Bush v Gore, when companies like Diebold brazenly sought to subvert the Supreme Court's order to standardize a secure design for US voting...
View ArticleDefcon Voting Village report shows that hacking voting machines takes less...
Every year, security researchers gather at Defcon's Voting Village to probe voting machines and report on the longstanding, systematic security problems with them, in order to give secure voting...
View ArticleUndetectably bypass voting machines' anti-tamper mechanism with a bit of a...
When security researchers report on the ghastly defects in voting machines, the officials who bought these machines say dismiss their concerns by saying that the tamper-evident seals they put around...
View ArticleEbay is full of used voting machines full of real electoral data and riddled...
Back in 2012, Symantec researcher Bryan Varner bought some used US voting machines on Ebay and found them to be incredibly insecure and full of real, sensitive election data; in 2016, he did it again...
View ArticleUnisyn voting machine manual instructs election officials to use and recycle...
No one knows who wrote this Unisyn optical vote-counting machine manual that has appeared in multiple sites served by the California-based vendor, but only because Unisyn won't comment on whether they...
View ArticleA critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything...
Switzerland is about to have a national election with electronic voting, overseen by Swiss Post; e-voting is a terrible idea and the general consensus among security experts who don't work for...
View ArticleFlorida Governor says the FBI told him how the Russians hacked Florida voting...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says that after the Mueller Report was published, the FBI came to him to explain its conclusion that at least two Florida county's voting machines were hacked by Russians...
View ArticleUS election security: still a dumpster fire
Securing Our Cyber Future, Stanford Cyber Policy Center's new report on election security, depicts a US electoral system whose glaring vulnerabilities are still in place, three years after the chaos...
View ArticleJudge orders the State of Georgia to be prepared for pen-and-paper balloting...
Few states have voting machines that are simultaneously more obviously defective and more ardently defended by the state government than Georgia, where 16-year-old touchscreen systems are prone to...
View ArticleReport from Defcon's Voting Village reveals ongoing dismal state of US...
For three years now, cryptographer Matt Blaze (previously) and his colleagues have hosted a Voting Village at Defcon, the annual hacker con in Vegas, in which all comers are welcomed to try to...
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