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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—The fastest, most cost-effective way to secure direct-record electronic voting machines in the United States, according to cybersecurity experts, is to stop using them. Switch to paper ballots and apply risk-limiting audits to ensure that vote tallies are conducted properly. How do you bake a pie? Adida said.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Experts say there is a straightforward response, however, to vulnerable voting-machine software. The most recent federal dollars devoted to improving elections came from the Help Americans Vote Act of 2002, which was itself flawed because its authors failed to predict cybersecurity standards for voting machines.

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Opinion: The U.S. Presidential Election and Doing our Part

The Cipher Brief

presidential election, there are a long list of things that threaten the vote, from election meddling by U.S. Given that there are just about ten weeks until November 3rd, no excuse absentee ballots must be the minimum and necessary standard for this upcoming election. billion in funding for states to effectively offer mail-in voting.

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Election hackers are ‘waiting for the bigger prize in 2020’ (Q&A)

The Parallax

Just days before heading to Australia for his wedding, University of Michigan computer science professor and electronic voting-machine security expert J. The voting machine has been held up in German customs for more than a week. The voting machine has been held up in German customs for more than a week.

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Perfect storm of security issues looms over 2020 election

The Parallax

Since 2016, cybersecurity and election experts have been sounding an ever-louder clarion call to take aggressive steps to ensure that computerized voting machines are secure enough to properly enroll registered voters, record their votes, and accurately count them. READ MORE ON ELECTION SECURITY.

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Perfect storm of security issues looms over 2020 election

The Parallax

Since 2016, cybersecurity and election experts have been sounding an ever-louder clarion call to take aggressive steps to ensure that computerized voting machines are secure enough to properly enroll registered voters, record their votes, and accurately count them.

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How experts plan to secure the 2020 election

The Parallax

But even with a few races still undecided , experts say election officials should be taking steps now to better secure the vote for the next presidential election, in two years. Elections Project estimates that 49 percent of eligible voters cast their vote —much higher than the midterm average since 1982 of 40 percent.