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Election Integrity
November 20, 2018 | Jordan Wilkie
Tags: DRE, electronic voting machines, Georgia

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.

Hillary Clinton, concession, 2016
Election Integrity
November 6, 2018 | Marilyn Marks
Tags: election security, electronic voting machines, hacking

Shaking Off the Sore Loser Syndrome

Opinion: Because of an outdated and vulnerable election infrastructure, we may never know the true winners of today’s midterms. But we already know who the losers are: Anybody interested in fair, secure, and transparent elections.

voting machines, Georgia
Election Integrity, Video
October 15, 2018 | Jordan Wilkie
Tags: electronic voting machines, Fulton County, Georgia

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.

Fulton County, police, voting, memory card
Election Integrity
October 15, 2018 | Timothy Pratt
Tags: electronic voting machines, Georgia, modems

Hacking Risk Prompts Police Escort for Electronic Votes

Amid growing public awareness of electronic voting machine vulnerabilities, Georgia’s largest county is concerned about the optics of using dial-up modems to transmit vote results.

Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
Election Integrity
October 14, 2018 | Jonathan Simon
Tags: electronic voting machines, hacking, midterms

Elections Matter — Shouldn’t We Be Taking Better Care of Them?

The GOP is setting up the “victimization” of Brett Kavanaugh as cause for a midterm election win next month. If that narrative sounds implausible, that’s because the cover story doesn’t have to be persuasive when you’ve got electronic voting machines.

Marilyn Marks
Election Integrity, Video
October 13, 2018 | WhoWhatWhy Staff
Tags: electronic voting machines, Georgia, Marilyn Marks

Electronic Voting Systems ‘Designed to Obliterate All Proof’

A federal judge agrees with a tiny nonprofit that electronic voting is a violation of constitutional rights.

Georgia, Secretary of State, Brian Kemp
Election Integrity
October 4, 2018 | Jordan Wilkie
Tags: Brian Kemp, electronic voting machines, Georgia, voter suppression

Group Asks Court to Return Accountability and Transparency to Georgia Elections

The vulnerabilities of Georgia’s electronic voting machines are now well documented. With time running out before the midterms, advocates are trying to force the courts to take action.

AUDIT USA, Election Systems & Software
Blog Posts
October 3, 2018 | Jack Lowenstein
Tags: AUDIT USA, electronic voting machines, ES&S

Voting Machine Vendor Threatens Election Transparency Group

The largest electronic voting machine vendor in the US is threatening an election transparency group with legal action for publishing the company’s manuals. The transparency group says it has every right to share them.

New York, Supreme Court
Election Integrity
April 30, 2018 | Nina Sparling
Tags: ballot images, electronic voting machines

Win for Election Transparency as Court Rules Ballot Images Are Public Records

Election-integrity advocates nationwide are celebrating a decision by a New York state appeals court that classifies electronic ballot images as public records. New York is a step ahead of the curve — many jurisdictions fail to preserve the images at all.

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