Last month, when Congress authorized three hundred and eighty million dollars to help states protect their voting systems from hacking, it was a public acknowledgement that, seven months out from the midterm elections, those systems remain vulnerable to attack.
Texas counties have doled out millions of dollars in recent months to replace thousands of old touch-screen voting machines that lack a paper record – a weakness security experts warn could allow Russians or other hackers to rig U.S. elections without detection.
The problem is, many of the new machines have the same vulnerability. So do similar machines in more than a dozen states across the country.
A pair of senators from each party is introducing legislation meant to deter foreign governments from interfering in future American elections.
The bill represents the latest push on Capitol Hill to address Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and counter potential threats ahead of the 2018 midterms.
A bipartisan group of six senators has introduced legislation that would take a huge step toward securing elections in the United States. Called the Secure Elections Act, the bill aims to eliminate insecure paperless voting machines from American elections while promoting routine audits that would dramatically reduce the danger of interference from foreign governments.
The U.S. Senate should enthusiastically pass the Graham-Klobuchar amendment to H.R. 2810, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2018.
The amendment would enormously strengthen defenses against cyber attacks that could compromise the integrity of elections in the United States and undermine legitimacy of government. Public confidence in the reliability of elections is a cornerstone of national security—the willingness of the people to fight and die for their country.
The elections administrator in Harris County, Texas, announced Tuesday that she had submitted her resignation, amid a mail-in ballot counting discrepancy in election night results. Longoria's announced resignation comes just days after she said that about 10,000 mail-in ballots -- approximately 6,000 Democratic and 4,000 Republican -- had not been included in the final unofficial primary election results.
A Colorado grand jury indicted a local election clerk Wednesday, accusing her of taking part in a "deceptive scheme" to breach voting technology during the 2020 election. Tina Peters, who oversees elections in Mesa County, was charged with 10 counts, including attempting to influence a public servant and criminal impersonation, The Associated Press reported.
Recently, Pamela Moses was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to restore her right to vote in Tennessee.
Luckily, last week she was granted a new trial, but the case underscores the urgent need to reform Tennessee’s voting rights restoration process. We’ve been supporting Moses’ fight and the situation is even worse than it looks.
In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden made a pitch once again for his failed voting reform bill, the “Freedom to Vote Act.” But there was a conspicuous lack of attention on what’s arguably the most serious issue pertaining to elections: Protection against foreign cybersecurity threats.
Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff who helped former President Donald J. Trump spread false claims of voter fraud in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, is facing questions about his own voting record, following a report that he registered to vote from a North Carolina mobile home where he did not live.
A recent Quinnipiac University poll found that among Black registered voters in Georgia, only 40 percent expect it to be very easy to vote in 2022, compared with 73 percent of white registered voters. Fewer than 20 percent of Black people polled believe all eligible people in Georgia will have a fair opportunity to vote in the 2022 general elections.
A conservative lawyer who worked on former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election is under investigation by the State Bar of California, where he is licensed. The State Bar announced its investigation of John Eastman in a statement Tuesday, noting that the probe began in September and is focused on whether Eastman violated California law or ethics rules governing attorneys in relation to the 2020 presidential election.
It seemed difficult to even imagine a sham election “audit” that was more cringe-worthy than the Arizona Republicans’ fiasco. Months later, many of us still struggle not to laugh at the mere mention of “Cyber Ninjas.” But all things considered, the Wisconsin Republicans’ ongoing debacle is even more embarrassing.
AUSTIN — Elisa Gonzalez helped former neighbor Bob Umphlet complete his mail-in ballot in November 2020 and even then it was difficult, she said.
Umphlet is a retired veteran who is also disabled and mostly blind. Gonzalez said that even as an able-bodied individual, she found the absentee ballot — an option available only to Texans who are 65 and older, disabled or will be out of the state during the election — difficult to complete with its small type and unclear directions.
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