On Tuesday, for the first time, voters in 33 states will be able to vote using some aspect of the Internet. But no matter the outcome, experts say no one will be certain those votes haven’t been tampered with.
Letter to the Editor, submitted by Faye M. Anderson, member of the Election Verification Network.
State efforts to let military and overseas voters cast ballots using the Internet have set off warnings from computer security experts that elections could be subject to cyberattacks.
Election watchdog groups are raising questions about the integrity of how Washington counts overseas ballots. They say Washington's policy of allowing military and overseas voters to send in their ballots as an email attachment is risky.
The district's experiment with online voting got national headlines when a team of computer scientists infiltrated the system.
A little more than 24 hours after online ballots started pouring into the Washington, D.C., Board of Elections and Ethics in late September, it became apparent that something was amiss.
In the summer of 2008 I led a team of computer scientists in examining the hardware and software of the Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine. I did this as a pro-bono expert witness for the Plaintiffs in the New Jersey voting-machine lawsuit.
The US leads the world in numbers of Windows PCs that are part of botnets, reveals a report.
Experts Question Quality of South Carolina Voting Machines
As the Supreme Court returns today for its new term, a bipartisan group of law professors and prominent attorneys, including seven former state attorneys general, issued a letter criticizing the Court’s ruling in January in Citizens United v. FEC, which equated corporate spending in elections with free speech rights, and calling on Congress to consider a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision.
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