The Voting Machine Monopoly — Is This Any Way to Vote?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Excerpt from “Is This Any Way to Vote?: Vulnerable Voting Machines and the Mysterious Industry Behind Them” by Celeste Katz Marston and Gabriella Novello.
Activists Worry New Georgia Voting Machines Open to Cyberattack
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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.
Georgia Certifies Election Results Despite Serious Flaw in Ballot Scanners
Reading Time: 4 minutes Election security advocates claim that hundreds of absentee ballots were misread, flagged for review, or simply thrown away due to uncertified ballot scanners.
Record Turnout for Georgia Primary Despite Tech Problems
Reading Time: 3 minutes Democratic turnout on June 9 was three times higher than in the 2016 primary, but activists worry that the computerized voting system can be hacked in November.
Voters in Georgia Frustrated by Long Lines and Broken Equipment
Reading Time: 5 minutes Many Peach State residents had to wait hours to vote on Tuesday, as what had been billed as a state-of-the-art voting system broke down, causing chaos in many precincts.
Touchscreen Voting Machines and the Vanishing Black Votes
Reading Time: 12 minutes After thousands of votes mysteriously vanished from touchscreen voting machines in Shelby County, TN, a battle rages over how to replace the machines.
States Grapple With Germ-Ridden Voting Machines Amid Coronavirus
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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.
Tech Fails and Internet Trolls: Are States Prepared for Either?
Reading Time: 3 minutes After internet trolls exacerbated the Iowa caucus fiasco, election security advocates are turning their attention to states with vulnerable voting machines to see how prepared they are in case something goes wrong.
Divide and Conquer? Voting Machine Audit Causes Rift Among Experts
Reading Time: 5 minutes While many states are taking voting machine vulnerabilities more seriously, others seem to ignore cybersecurity concerns as a rift emerges among election security advocates.
Ignoring Warning Signs: Officials Approve Vulnerable Voting Machines
Reading Time: 8 minutes While more states move toward hand-marked paper ballots, others will keep using outdated voting machines that are hackable and known to have serious security flaws.