Ignoring Warning Signs: Officials Approve Vulnerable Voting Machines
While more states move toward hand-marked paper ballots, others will keep using outdated voting machines that are hackable and known to have serious security flaws.
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Georgia Runoff Will Likely ‘Contaminate’ Voting Machines As Evidence
A WhoWhatWhy investigation shows that, for the last 16 years, Georgia has either been ignoring or misinterpreting one of its own rules on storing election data.
Touchscreen Voting Machines and the Vanishing Black Votes
After thousands of votes mysteriously vanished from touchscreen voting machines in Shelby County, TN, a battle rages over how to replace the machines.
How Easy-to-hack Voting Machines Endanger Democracy
It doesn’t take much skill to hack a voting machine.
New Video Provides Proof of Cellular Modems in FL Voting Machines
Election transparency advocates have long asserted that ES&S digital scanner voting machines connect to the internet to send results to election department central computers. That connectivity raises security concerns, but state officials say the machines are islands. Now, one advocate has proof they’re wrong.
What Donald Trump Got Right About Voting Machines
The weird drama over the supposed “forensic experts” who messed with election software in a tiny Georgia county distracts from the real problem: Voting machines — and our elections — are indeed vulnerable.
States Grapple With Germ-Ridden Voting Machines Amid Coronavirus
Scientists say the coronavirus could survive for days on voting machines, so election officials are seeking strategies to protect both public health and the right to vote.
Felon Voting Rights and Vulnerable Voting Machines
High school students in Illinois that are eligible to vote will be allowed a two-hour excused absence to cast a ballot during the 2020 election. (read more) It’s a novel idea that came from high school students themselves, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed the bill last week. Efforts to expand voting rights has been a […]
Is This Any Way to Vote?
The simple and quaint past way of voting is over. It’s a brave new world and the authors of the new WhoWhatWhy e-book help us understand it.
Activists Worry New Georgia Voting Machines Open to Cyberattack
Georgia’s new machines were meant to fix vulnerabilities found in those used in the 2016 and 2018 elections. But hackers have found the latest models just as easy to manipulate.
Barcode Voting Machines: The Most Unnecessary Gap in US Election Security
Experts say barcode ballot marking devices lack transparency and security, and their vulnerabilities will attract insider threats of the kind Trump supporters have been charged with.
Exclusive: WhoWhatWhy Finds Voting Machines Unguarded
Shocking video shows voting machines sitting in an unlocked room in a public place in Georgia’s Fulton County the day before early voting started.