He pitches it as an attempt to rethink voting machine from "first principles," to reconsider what a voting machine is.
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Wyden's appeal to voting machine manufacturers is the latest piece in the ongoing conversation around election system and voting machine security following revelations from the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Island's lone voting machine fails, so a replacement is ferried When the lone voting machine on a remote island failed, Rhode Island officials delivered a replacement machine -- by ferry.
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And if you think about it in terms of, okay, you've got a voting machine, starting from the smallest thing, well, we can do a lot to secure a voting machine, okay?
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Reports of long lines and voting machine issues also surfaced.
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Fake ballots are a feature no voting machine should have.
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Kiniry said Galois will design two basic voting machine types.
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These audits will ensure that every voting machine is working properly.
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Taking on these voting machine companies that have behaved incredibly irresponsibly.
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And the voting machine companies have basically been above the law.
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DHS: Reports of voting machine issues are 'typical' Department of Homeland Security officials say they are aware of various reports from the states on voting machine issues but do not believe they are out of the norm.
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That's not enough time to solve all of America's voting machine issues.
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An 11-year-old hacked a voting machine prototype in 10 minutes.
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Up close with WinVote, allegedly the worst voting machine in the world.
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What sort of pinhead doesn't know how to operate a voting machine?
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Voting machine breakdowns caused unconscionably long lines in Georgia, Maryland, and elsewhere.
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What good is an electronic voting machine when there is no electricity?
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If you believe your voting machine is malfunctioning, notify a poll worker.
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Chinese-owned companies make about a fifth of the voting machine components.
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I think the voting machine people are still in the driver's seat.
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Once malware is on a voting machine, it can travel from that voting machine, to a central tabulating system, and then back out to all the other voting machines in a jurisdiction during the course of normal election procedures.
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In March, Congress authorized $380 million for voting machine upgrades across the country.
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You think you can't manipulate a voting machine that was built in 1953?
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Experts have warned about voting machine vulnerability for years, but nothing has changed.
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Here's the DefCon Voting Machine Hacking Village roundup of discoveries for the day!
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In an August column in The Hill, he wrote of voting machine manipulation.
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He had also voted in the last election with an electronic voting machine.
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Even if not a single voting machine has been compromised, we're in trouble.
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Here's a video of security researchers playing Pac-Man on a hacked voting machine.
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In 2012, 39 percent of voters cast their ballots using an electronic voting machine.
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Once you do that, you can cause the voting machine to create fraudulent counts.
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Malicious hackers could have altered the templates of voting machine memory cards to skew results.
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Our parliament has instead been used as a voting machine to impose the AKP's agenda.
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A banner hung from the building showed Lula's smiling face on an electronic voting machine.
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And voting machine vendors also have to earn the trust of election officials, he said.
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Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) on Wednesday announced new legislation aimed at preventing voting machine hacking.
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CNN reported that voting machine receipts are reprinted in a recanvass to check for errors.
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The Senate Committee on Intelligence offered two sets of witnesses to discuss voting machine hacking.
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A secure voting machine should prevent untrusted or unsigned software from being installed on it.
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The senators also sounded concerns on Tuesday about the shrinking number of voting-machine makers.
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In 2017, the largest U.S. voting machine vendor, ES&S, exposed encrypted employee passwords online.
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For decades, the companies that dominated the U.S. voting machine industry operated in relative anonymity.
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Two House Oversight subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on voting machine security on Wednesday.
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I think over time you realize that, you know, it's a weird kind of voting machine.
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The campaign is also still pushing for forensic audits of voting machine software in the state.
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Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) on Wednesday announced new legislation aimed at preventing voting machine hacking.
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You know, we've got to make sure every voting machine in America has a paper trail.
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This election has already been hacked even if not a single voting machine has been compromised.
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Hackers could also target voting-machine vendors and use this trusted channel to distribute their code.
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The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on voting machine security at 2:00 p.m.
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The voter then takes this card, places it into the voting machine, and casts their votes.
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Why it matters: The EAC interfaces with states on elections, including on voluntary voting machine security standards.
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And with good reason, as not a single voting machine has been found to have been hacked.
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It was even a plot point on "Scandal" — the president won his job from a voting machine.
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In 2006, it took Princeton University researchers one minute to infect a voting machine with malicious software.
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The systems are made by Election Systems & Software, the top voting machine company in the United States.
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A wholesale refitting of the nation's voting machine infrastructure would represent a sizable sales opportunity for them.
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Researchers continue to discover ongoing security issues with the voting machine industry, including poor internal company security.
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One of its highlights is a gear-and-lever voting machine that was developed in the late 1800s.
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"No excuses, my good people!" he wrote on the image, in which he posed with a voting machine.
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That could mean casting votes on a paper ballot and counting them with an optical-scan voting machine.
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"One machine can attack SERVO, and now an evil SERVO can attack every subsequent voting machine," he said.
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"The market, as a voting machine, said he came out OK," said Sam Stovall, CFRA chief investment strategist.
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Maybe an anonymous person announces that he hacked a particular brand of voting machine, describing in detail how.
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But in Georgia, the lobbying efforts of voting-machine vendors appear to be paying off in spectacular fashion.
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When Brazilians vote, they punch in a number for a candidate or party in an electronic voting machine.
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The U.S. voting machine industry is dominated by three privately-held companies, Election Systems & Software in Omaha, Neb.
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Two House Oversight subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on voting machine cybersecurity on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
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In a subversive move, attendees at Def Con will be able to attend its first Voting Machine Village.
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Example of a mid-83th century voting machine that uses a series of levers to record the voter's decisions.
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Yes, the sources say, hackers did attempt to manipulate voter databases, the voter registration process, and voting machine software.
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Voting machine makers as an industry have long pushed back against security and transparency efforts until, suddenly, this week.
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The House Science Committee holds a hearing on how to protect elections from voting machine hacking at 28503 a.m.
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Shortly before blocking the measures brought up last week, McConnell received donations from voting machine lobbyists, according to Newsweek.
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Another issue is that many voting machine companies have gone broke or are otherwise out of business, Bernhard explained.
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A number of local and national efforts, both legislative and citizen-driven, have moved for greater voting machine security.
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"We taught the Negros how to use that voting machine," Ms. Jones told The Courier-Journal in March 1965.
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Without the EAC, voting machine security would conceivably be a part of the DHS's larger elections aid to states.
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"Just out according to CNN: 'Utah officials report voting machine problems across entire country,'" Trump tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.
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This election cycle, like many before it, the concept of voting machine hacking is going to be on people's minds.
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From attempted voting machine hacks to social media misinformation campaigns, technology and elections don't have the greatest relationship right now.
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The problems stem from glitches in the Hart Intercivic eSlate voting machine, according to the Texas Secretary of State's office.
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Donald Trump's careless bullshitting could do more damage to our democracy than a glitch in a voting machine ever could.
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Ms. Robinson, then 21, had never voted before and didn't know how to operate the electronic voting machine, reported Buzzfeed.
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Voting machine vendors often will only lease the software on their machines to counties, instead of selling it to them.
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"No electronic voting machine is bulletproof when it comes to cybersecurity," Tod Beardsley, a senior security research manager at Rapid7, wrote.
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There is not a scintilla of evidence that a single vote was changed or that a single voting machine was hacked.
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Elsewhere, the candidate for mayor in Pasig, Vico Sotto, refused to cast his vote until voting machine issues had been addressed.
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Though experts agree that hacking an individual voting machine is easy, hacking them at a large scale is far more difficult.
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Others focused in on device's circuit boards, and later, another researcher managed to gain remote access to a second voting machine.
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Some pointed to the Voting Machine Hacking Village demonstration last July at DEFCON, the annual cybersecurity conference held in Las Vegas.
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It would also establish clear lines of communication between state election officials, the Department of Homeland Security and voting machine vendors.
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As a result, they recommend that by 2020, every voting machine nationwide should generate a backup paper record of each vote.
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In 2011, DeBeauvoir curtly responded to her critics: Why not come to Austin and help her design a better voting machine?
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A key question posed to voting machine makers has been how it makes its machines and where its parts come from.
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"Every voting machine in this room is in use in [the] next election [in] 2018," explained Village co-founder Harri Hursti.
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Officials in Philadelphia and North Carolina reported scattered voting machine outages, and addressed the problems by offering provisional ballots to some voters.
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This seeming "vote-flipping" occurs with the Hart InterCivic eSlate, an electronic voting machine that's been in use for nearly two decades.
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Sure, but first you have to figure out how to break the locks and seals that are placed on each voting machine.
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We believe in our hearts that Benjamin Graham – short-term, the markets are a voting machine, long-term, they're a weighing machine.
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Tom Burt is the CEO of Election Systems & Software (ES&S), one of the biggest voting machine manufacturers in the United States.
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More importantly, elections are administered by states, so why Utah would have knowledge of voting machine problems across the country is insane.
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Princeton computer scientist Andrew Appel, one of the main figures doing those demos, has argued that no voting machine is entirely immune.
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Voting-machine failures would make that crisis more acute, but no more so than the kind of recount we saw in 2000.
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" The GOP presidential nominee tweeted Tuesday afternoon that, "Just out according to CNN: 'Utah officials report voting machine problems across entire country.
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Zeynep Tufekci In my old workplace, right next to the comfortable couches where we would take breaks, we kept a voting machine.
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A character played by Kevin Costner is given the chance to vote again because his voting machine had malfunctioned the first time.
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Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager says the current focus on improving voting machine cybersecurity would not have prevented the last election's mess.
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There is no reason for any voting machine, vote tallying or vote totals transmission and storage to be connected to the internet.
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She would replace every voting machine across the country with modern equipment and would require the use of a uniform federal ballot.
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Columnist and activist Shaun King reported that his Brooklyn polling place had just one functioning voting machine with 063 people in line.
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The Village offers a side conference on voting machine insecurity and a playground of real voting machines for hackers to toy with.
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The accessible route should lead the wheelchair user from the parking lot through the hallways and end at the accessible voting machine.
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In fact, voters in Palm Beach County, where it appears this voting machine is from, filed a lawsuit challenging the election results.
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Security researchers at the conference's Voting Village found a security flaw in an old but widely used voting machine in dozens of states.
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Meanwhile, in Georgia, a voting machine has been removed from service after complaints that it flipped votes intended for Hillary Clinton to Trump.
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Because none of the disparate voting machine systems are connected together electronically, a hack that could influence the election's outcome is logistically impossible.
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"The stock market, I think, in the long term is a weighting machine, in the short term it's a voting machine," Lurie said.
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Nor is there agreement about which of a variety of paper-backed voting machine options are the best to replace existing machines with.
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And the legislation creates security standards for voting machine vendors, including that they must be owned by a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
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He believes that a civically focused nonprofit that makes an open source voting machine is a way to restore trust to the process.
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Anyone who has been interested in reading about voting machine security over the past decade knows that these machines are not exactly unassailable.
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The votes will be analyzed, and in some cases verified against printed ballot copies generated by each voting machine, starting at 8 a.m.
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The open-source voting-machine software gets its first real-world test today, when it's used in a local election in Fulton, Wisconsin.
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THE KEY Voting machine companies and cybersecurity advocates are still miles apart on what it will take to secure 2020 against Russian hackers.
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Hall is the chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology and the head of that group's new voting machine security initiative.
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Last year, Wyden pressed several voting machine manufacturers, including ES&S, on their cybersecurity practices and whether they had fallen victim to breaches.
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This is generally done by comparing a random sample of paper records to voting machine totals and looking for discrepancies — intentional or not.
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Though nearly a billion people could cast ballots, there are just 1.63 million "control units," the computerized brain of the electronic voting machine.
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But DARPA and Galois won't be asking people to blindly trust that their voting systems are secure—as voting machine vendors currently do.
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One of the hacked devices was the AccuVote TSx, a touchscreen voting machine created by Premier Elections Solutions, the company formerly known as Diebold.
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An election official tests an electronic voting machine during public testing of voting equipment at the DC Board of Elections and Ethics on Nov.
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After the Republican presidential candidate incorrectly tweeted that Utah officials were reporting voting machine problems across the "entire country," Tapper issued a fact-check.
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A Princeton professor was recently able to manually manipulate a voting machine in just a matter of minutes in order to demonstrate their vulnerability.
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Without such records, it is impossible to verify election results — we can't check the totals provided by the voting machine and identify incorrect results.
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Voting machines: At DEFCON last year, hackers demonstrated that they could break in to any voting machine with wireless connectivity or a USB port.
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The top voting machine maker in the country, ES&S, distributes modems or modeming capability with many of its DRE and optical-scan machines.
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For one thing, they're all in on Chuck's shady attempt to expose Jeffcoat's even shadier collusion with a voting machine manufacturer to rig elections.
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A custom-built voting machine in Los Angeles county that officials spent years developing was also slowed by network problems, producing hours-long lines.
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They also had to offer at least one accessible voting machine at each polling place so that disabled voters could cast ballots without assistance.
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Despite this proliferation of voting-machine problems, the industry was expanding its reach and control, even as it was concentrating power into fewer hands.
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Los Angeles custom-built its BMDs over the course of a decade rather than buying them from one of the main voting machine vendors.
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This could be useful, as hackers found mechanisms to breach every voting machine brought for testing at the DEF CON security conference this year.
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In three short years, the Defcon Voting Village has gone from a radical hacking project to a stalwart that surfaces voting machine security issues.
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ... THE BIG STORIES: --DEMS PRESS VOTING MACHINE VENDORS: Sens.
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This could be useful, as hackers found mechanisms to breach every voting machine brought for testing at the DEF CON security conference this year.
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Meanwhile, as the New York Times Magazine detailed in a recent piece, there's basically no such thing as a hacker-proof electronic voting machine.
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One location mistakenly installed only three voting machines where there should have been one voting machine to every 350 voters registered in that precinct.
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A hacked website may not sound as critical as a hacked voting machine, but it could create confusion about voting locations, times and procedures.
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For example, sometimes that "accessible" voting machine is in the back of a polling place and requires navigating through rows of people to get there.
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DHS has taken the lead on working with states to improve voting machine security, but no federal agency is specifically responsible for combating online propaganda.
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But that doesn't mean our voting machines aren't vulnerable, too, and the Mueller report suggests that voting machine companies were also targeted by Russia's GRU.
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In this environment, DefCon, an annual conference of hackers, promoted the "Voting Machine Hacking Village" at which multiple voting machines, mostly DREs, were made available.
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The background: In 2007, Rice University professor Dan Wallach participated in California's "top to bottom" review of its election equipment, including the eSlate voting machine.
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Voting machine maker ES&S has said it "will no longer sell" paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots in a jurisdiction.
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He stressed that the machine will not vote — it will only register the choices of the voter so it is "unjustly called a voting machine."
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At the Voting Machine Hacking Village during DefCon in Las Vegas, election officials from numerous states made a concerted plea for more election infrastructure funding.
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The WinVote machine, dubbed the world's worst voting machine, had just about every red flag you could imagine for such an important piece of hardware.
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A Princeton professor was recently able to manually alter a voting machine in a matter of just minutes—to prove a point about their vulnerability.
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"There's the old Ben Graham adage: 'Short term, the stock market is a voting machine, and long term it's a weighing machine,'" Mr. Khosrowshahi said.
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At the conference's Voting Village, it took an 11-year-old just minutes to hack into a voting machine using a simulation of Florida's system.
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First, I'd ban the use of any voting machine that doesn't rely on a hand-marked paper ballot, so there is something to count later.
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The team will cover an array of topics that touch on voter security, including social media misinformation as well as voting machine and technology issues.
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Namely: Hart InterCivic, Election Systems & Software, and Dominion Voting Systems — the three companies that control a whopping 80 percent of the country's voting machine market.
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States are in charge of voting standards, and many rely on an optional federal voting machine certification standard that makes the update process less agile.
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The big story was confirmation that at least one voting system (voting machine, vote tallying system, or voter registration system) was compromised by external actors.
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They also attempted to search for connected systems for the other top two voting machine vendors in the country—Dominion Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic.
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I can't remember who said that, who said the quote about voting machine versus a weighing machine, but you kind of understand that that's true, right?
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Voters started turning up early in the morning and some had to wait for about 15 minutes due to a malfunction in the electronic voting machine.
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Now those fears have been stoked by a team of security experts, who argue that voting machine vulnerabilities mean Clinton should demand recounts in key states.
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But the researchers called for a vast overhaul in voting machine security and related legislation, warning that an attack is still possible in a future election.
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Recently, a participant at DefCon breached a voting machine in 90 minutes, and was able to change the vote tally in the machine remotely, from anywhere.
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A number of lawmakers have sponsored legislation to help secure the 2020 elections, including measures focusing on online political ads, paper ballots, and voting machine security.
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As someone with great sentimental attachment to the Republican Party, as I joined as the party of Goldwater, both parties have engaged in voting machine manipulation.
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It is indeed working to expand upon the relationships with state and local election officials and voting machine vendors that emerged from the 2018 midterm elections.
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After a few hours on Friday, one hacker was essentially able to turn a voting machine into a jukebox, making it play music and display animations.
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That's true, and it means the voting machine landscape is a patchwork of different systems, which makes the election hard to manipulate in a coordinated way.
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Two conservative groups, the National Election Defense Coalition and FreedomWorks, called the voting-machine deal a "boondoggle" in a letter last week to state Senate Republicans.
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Here are some of the voter issues and irregularities that CNN has found this Election Day, from power outages to voting machine shortages to excessive humidity.
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It tests every voting machine used in the state, creates all federal, state and local ballots and houses the voter rolls for every district in Georgia.
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But, the researchers called for a vast overhaul in voting machine security and related legislation, warning that an attack is still possible in a future election.
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Executive director of the New York City Board of Elections Michael Ryan suggested voting machine problems could be a result of the humidity from heavy rainfall.
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" Consequently, "should hacking of a voting machine occur, the government would not, in many conceivable circumstances, be able to use the CFAA to prosecute the hackers.
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Cover image: A voter casts his ballot into an electronic voting machine at a polling station located in the Taft Information Technology High School, Tuesday, Nov.
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But for as long as experts have warned about security problems, voting machine makers and election officials have denied that the machines can be remotely hacked.
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Broward County officials said they were not prepared for the voting-machine calibration test they had planned for Saturday afternoon and were recessing until 7 a.m.
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A smiling Obama shook hands with the poll workers at the site and thanked them for their "outstanding work" before heading to an electronic voting machine.
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For years, U.S. election officials and voting machine vendors have insisted that critical election systems are never connected to the internet and therefore can't be hacked.
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Harri Hursti, a voting machine expert who famously found a critical flaw in Diebold voting systems, helped coordinate the machines' purchase for the conference by scouring eBay.
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Particles from a solar storm once interfered with a voting machine in a 2003 Belgian election, swapping 4096 votes (not enough to pick the wrong candidate, though).
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Concern about voting machine insecurities has been high since they became the standard for casting ballots after the confused result in Florida after the 2000 presidential elections.
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"There is a saying that over the short-term the market is a voting machine and over the long-term it is a weighing machine," he said.
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It would be very difficult for a foreign adversary to compromise a voting machine, and if they did, there would be ample evidence that it had happened.
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Unfortunately all of this has been proven possible and researchers have gone so far as to hack a voting machine into a working Pac-Man arcade game.
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CNN reported that Utah officials were reporting voting machine problems in a county, which is notably different than the word "country," which has an "r" in it.
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For example, DEFCON, the world's largest hacker conference, held an educational voting machine hacking demonstration last summer to show how susceptible election equipment is to cyber attack.
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This year the DEF CON hacker conference is running a Voting Machine Hacking Village, an initiative that should be replicated in as many other countries as possible.
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Fixing existing systems will be a serious challenge though, because distributing patches is tricky when each different version of a voting machine comes with its own idiosyncrasies.
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His computer wrote data to a smart-card like device, which he then plugged into the voting machine, a touchscreen model made by a company called Diebold.
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The VOTE Act would also allocate $85033 million dollars in grants to assist in training poll workers, developing new voting technologies and protecting voting machine source code.
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In Ohio in 2004, for example, where John Kerry lost the presidential race following numerous election irregularities, Kerry's team was denied access to the voting-machine software.
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Concern over voting machine vulnerabilities has grown as a result of Russia's meddling in the U.S. presidential election, which involved targeting state and local election-related systems.
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This year, for the first time, the conference hosted a "Voting Machine Village," where attendees could try to hack a number of systems and help catch vulnerabilities.
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The accessible voting machine area should have enough turning space for a wheelchair user to be comfortable and be able to move his or her wheelchair around.
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Besides, by now states have had plenty of warning since a damning report by the Brennan Center for Justice about our voting machine vulnerabilities came out last September.
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In addition to the hackers, the village is expecting visitors from Congress, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of Homeland Security, and voting machine vendors.
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Justin Timberlake hopped a flight from Los Angeles to Memphis last month to vote early, capping the moment by snapping a selfie in front of his voting machine.
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Multiple bipartisan pushes for legislation have been stopped cold by McConnell despite criticism from across the aisle and, now, an opposing view from the voting machine industry itself.
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The voting machine, imported from South Korea, broke down when it was demonstrated to a parliamentary commission in the capital, Kinshasa, a member of the committee told Reuters.
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The voting machine then prints a ballot paper with those choices, sparing the need to pre-print large ballots with the names and photos of dozens of candidates.
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Voting machine problems this November could lead to more long waits and lost votes: in March, we saw thousands of voters in Arizona wait in line for hours.
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In fact, the system under which he was elected robs him of personal responsibility; it makes of him a voting machine rather than a thinking and feeling person.
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Four senior senators have called on the largest U.S. voting machine makers to explain why they continue to sell devices with "known vulnerabilities," ahead of upcoming critical elections.
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This year, for the first time, the conference is hosting a "Voting Machine Village," where attendees can try to hack a number of systems and help catch vulnerabilities.
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Farah says that the electronic voting machine was not working, and she was told by a poll worker that they did not have any ballots for her precinct.
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ES&S is the top voting machine maker in the country, a position it held in the years 22007-22016 when it was installing pcAnywhere on its systems.
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The NSA document provided technical details on what it said were Russian attempts to hack election officials and a voting machine firm before the presidential election in November.
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Corporations like Diebold promised more secure elections, but the advent of the digital voting machine only delivered budget-busting, bug-prone devices that can be vulnerable to hacking.
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On Election Day in 2016, a Pennsylvania woman posted a viral Twitter video that claimed that her voting machine was not allowing her to vote for Donald Trump.
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In Ohio, 12 counties have enlisted a new voting machine company that's focused its innovation on paper and is challenging a market traditionally dominated by three legacy providers.
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Certainly, there's a big difference between a voting machine room at a hacker conference where pwning the machines is encouraged, and an actual polling place in an election.
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This isn't just a voting machine issue: The public debate about election security often gets falsely reduced to swapping out machines without paper ballots for machines with them.
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Hackers will continue to probe the systems over the weekend in a bid to discover new vulnerabilities, which could be turned over to voting machine makers to fix.
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And as exciting as it is to tear a voting machine apart, the goal of securing elections might be reached faster through educating election officials about cybersecurity best practices.
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A hacker tries to access and alter data from an electronic poll book in the Voting Machine Hacking Village during the DefCon convention in Las Vegas, on July 29.
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While there are no documented cases of a US voting machine being hacked during an election, researchers have repeatedly shown a capacity to do so in a closed environment.
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That initial computer is almost certainly not well secured, and if an attacker infects it, vote-stealing malware can hitch a ride to every voting machine in the area.
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That study, called The Business of Voting, found that the voting machine industry isn't very competitive, isn't very lucrative, and suffers from years of stagnation and lack of investment.
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Voting machine issues Early reports suggest that districts have been beset with problems, including technical issues that are not allowing voters -- and even some candidates -- to register their choices.
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A Democratic U.S. senator is pressing six leading voting machine companies for information on their cybersecurity efforts amid alarm over Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Sen.
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Hovland and Palmer said during their confirmation hearing last month that their likely first moves after joining the EAC would be to review its standards for voting machine vendors.
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Benning reportedly used the same voting machine and told USA Today that he had to repeatedly touch the screen in order to make sure it registered the correct candidate.
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This was at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, where researchers had been able to reprogram the voting machine without even breaking the "tamper evident" seals.
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This was all part of DEF CON's new voting machine hacking village, where hackers came to rip apart, reverse engineer, and probe real voting machines used in US elections.
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At least 11 people were killed in violence before voting started, but otherwise the election was mostly smooth with voting machine problems at only a few dozen polling stations.
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The film looks at Hursti's past efforts to call attention to voting machine insecurity—including confrontations with manufacturers—but also maps his efforts since the 2016 US presidential election.
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From Kim Zetter: For years, U.S. election officials and voting machine vendors have insisted that critical election systems are never connected to the internet and therefore can't be hacked.
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Johnny Isakson to resign at end of year Groups push lawmakers for hearings on voting machine security MORE (R-Mo.), and Eric Lausten, former chief of staff to Rep.
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Four years later, a voting machine in Pennsylvania had to be removed after it kept changing people's votes for Barack Obama to ones for his Republican rival Mitt Romney.
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But Princeton Professor Andrew Appel testified before Congress this year that this type of attack had only been demonstrated on one model of voting machine, used primarily in Georgia.
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Some of Texas' early voters have reported that they tried to vote for a straight Democratic line, but the voting machine switched votes to the Republican Senate incumbent, Ted Cruz.
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Parker watched the man walk over to what she said was a voting machine, and at that moment another voter who was disgusted by what they saw began taking photos.
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In Kerala, leaders of three political parties complained about electronic voting machine (EVM) malfunctions, but an election commission official said glitches were not widespread and there were enough replacement machines.
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But not all states require audits, which tend to compare paper trails with voting-machine totals in a random sampling of districts as a way to detect fraud or irregularities.
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The findings also connect to larger efforts to safeguard US elections, including initiatives to expand oversight of voting machine vendors and efforts to fund state and local election security upgrades.
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It makes even less sense to adopt a uniform voting machine for all Americans, especially after the Dutch demonstrated that using a single system invited the undivided attention of hackers.
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Here's a fun fact on the eve of perhaps the most contentious election in recent American history: It's totally possible to hack a voting machine and alter its final tally.
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A buggy voting machine, for example, could cause long lines at the polls in a crucial swing state, or a faulty touch-screen could switch votes from Trump to Clinton.
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Robert Kurtz, a resident of West Lafayette who went to vote Tuesday, recorded a video of a touch screen on a voting machine that would not record the proper selection.
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President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday that she pressed her polling place on voting machine security when she voted in Virginia this week.
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In the short term, how markets move and whom we elect depends on humans casting ballots in a voting machine – buying stocks or making a choice in the voting booth.
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"The vast majority of technical infrastructure for our voting is absolutely, without doubt, woefully insecure," said Matt Blaze, a University of Pennsylvania computer-science professor who studies voting machine security.
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The newly released Philadelphia City Controller's report details conflicts of interest that resulted in a $2.9 million fine for the vendor, but the $29 million voting machine contract remains intact.
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The Department of Homeland Security in particular is extremely worried about voting machine security, especially in light of the news that Russian hackers breached voting systems in states like Florida.
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"This vulnerability could be exploited to take over the voting machine on which they vote and cast as many votes as the voter wanted," the group claims in the report.
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And while, sure, we should take the security of our election systems seriously, finding proof of past malfeasance is not what the DEF CON Voting Machine Hacking Village was about.
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Watch Edward Felten, the current Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, demonstrate in his testimony before Congress how his team was able to inject a virus into a Diebold electronic voting machine.
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But this year's village features a fancy new target: a prototype of a so-called secure voting machine, created through a $10 million project at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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According to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, the Russian government also hacked voting machine companies, although there is no evidence that voting machines were hacked or that any votes were changed.
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There were scattered reports of voting machine glitches in Pennsylvania, where some voters said they tried to vote the Republican ticket only to see the Democratic boxes checked on their touchscreen.
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A major voting machine maker, Election Systems & Software, revealed in a letter to a US senator that it installed remote-access software on its machines over a period of six years.
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The state called Michael Shamos, a computer scientist from Carnegie Mellon who has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from voting-machine companies to testify that election hacking is virtually impossible.
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The Nates said Trump did better in voting machine areas of Wisconsin because those areas are also the type of rural areas that were home to Trump supporters across the country.
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A pro-QAnon Twitter account on Tuesday posted a false video of a voting machine in Ohio that appeared to have changed a Republican vote to a one for a Democrat.
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He went on to list a number of actions he hoped states would take to help secure machines, including increasing testing opportunities for outside hackers and transparency in voting machine design.
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Specifically, Ms. Warren said she would create a new federal agency, the Secure Democracy Administration; replace every voting machine with modern equipment; and require the use of a uniform federal ballot.
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It became common to see voting-machine employees or their local contractors in election offices before, during and after elections, and in some cases even working in election offices full time.
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Unlike the purely electronic ballots of a paperless e-voting machine, mail-in ballots come with a built-in paper trail, so that the results can be verified via random audits.
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Eddie Perez, global director of technology development for the Open Source Election Technology Institute, a nonprofit research organization, said that there is still a shroud of secrecy around voting machine companies.
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Verified Voting, an advocacy group that helped organize the hacking village, said that some of the voting machine models being tested are still used to tally votes across the United States.
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She's explored whether Georgia's voting system was hacked by the Russians in 2016, exposed the fact that some states buy voting machine repair parts from eBay, and shown that a top voting-machine vendor installed remote-access software on many of its voting machines (that's bad!) Many of the voting machines we just used in the midterm elections run on Windows XP, and some of them have known vulnerabilities that haven't been patched for 10 years.
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In February, Pennsylvania issued a directive that any future voting machine purchases would have to produce a paper trail, but at the time the state didn't issue a deadline for replacing equipment.
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" Burt disagreed strongly then but is now pushing for a law "that mandates that all voting machine suppliers submit their systems to stronger, programmatic security testing conducted by vetted and approved researchers.
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If that's not enough, just two weeks ago a top voting machine making company called for stronger election security laws and announced that the company will no longer sell paperless voting machines.
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What exactly is a "state-of-the-art" voting machine, what exactly are the security standards states will have to meet or risk a court battle from a would-be Warren administration?
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Delaware: The Department of Elections this week received seven proposals for voting machine equipment that would leave a voter-verified paper trail of votes, the state election commissioner, Elaine Manlove, told Axios.
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Under the Massachusetts senator's plan, every state will get "state-of-the-art" voting equipment (every voting machine in the country will be replaced), and the entire nation will adopt uniform ballots.
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Also in this section, an upbeat 22 promotional film produced by the Automatic Voting Machine Corporation is a real period piece (as seen from our era of hanging chads and hacking fears).
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What he means is that if malicious software took over a voting machine and wanted to skew the results for Clinton, it could just silently record Trump votes as going to Clinton.
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In April, the nation's top voting machine manufacturer told Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon that it had installed remote-access software on election-management systems that it sold from 2000 to 193.
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Once openly hostile to hackers, voting machine manufacturers have even considering establishing bug bounty programs to make vulnerability disclosure easier—a collaboration that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
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Rodney DavisRodney Lee DavisLawmakers beat Capitol Police in Congressional Football Game Groups push lawmakers for hearings on voting machine security House Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 28503 MORE (R-Ill.).
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And to give you an idea, because you're a Times contributor, how irresponsible they are: The major voting machine company, ES&S, lied to the New York Times about a crucial question.
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"We need to do a lot more," said J. Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan, who testified in June before the Senate Intelligence Committee about voting machine security.
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Philadelphia: Long Lines Due to GlitchesThe Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is reporting long lines as a result of voting machine screw ups at three precincts in Virginia and in Philadelphia.
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"I see this op-ed as a positive first step," Matt Blaze, a Georgetown professor and co-author of the Def Con report on voting machine security, tweeted when Burt made his announcement.
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A document for modem transmissions from voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems—another top voting machine company in the country—similarly discusses TCP-IP and SSL, both protocols used for internet traffic.
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Machines must be kept under literal lock and key, given that computer scientists have demonstrated that they can install a new chip into a voting machine, and alter its software, in about a minute.
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But Moss isn't backing away from the cause, and DEF CON is getting more deeply involved with election security than ever before—this year, the event will host its first Voting Machine Hacking Village.
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By spreading rumors on social media and amplifying choice stories into a 24-hour news cycle, these bad actors can sway the political narrative and hack an election without even touching a voting machine.
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"Voting machine vulnerabilities have been well-researched for almost a decade and have been well-reported in this election cycle, but they have yet to be fully addressed," the company said in a statement.
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To make matters worse, "hacking" at the voting machine level is only part of the problem — cybercriminals could also create false registered voters, or interfere with the process at other steps to manipulate results.
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Mathematician and voting statistic expert Richard Charnin has produced a compelling study by comparing polling to actual results and exit polls to make a compelling case for voting machine manipulation in the Badger state.
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While Russia is thought to have attempted to hack as many as 21 states' election infrastructure (including voter databases), there is no evidence that Russia breached any voting machine or directly altered any votes.
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Halderman says that he believes a virus could be placed on the cartridge used to upload the ballot to the voting machine, infecting each machine as it was formatted with the new candidate names.
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Among the more interesting tidbits, Nielsen told lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that she pressed her polling place on voting machine security when she voted in Virginia this week.
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For years security professionals and election integrity activists have been pushing voting machine vendors to build more secure and verifiable election systems, so voters and candidates can be assured election outcomes haven't been manipulated.
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The rickroll stunt was just one hack at the security conference DEF CON, which ran a three-day Voting Machine Hacking Village to test the security of various machines and networks used in US elections.
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In South Carolina, where no voting machine produces a paper trail, the money would come nowhere near replacing all the equipment in the state — something the state insists is necessary to maintain uniform voting standards.
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Report: voting machine used in half of U.S. is vulnerable to attack Why it matters: Election security has been a high-priority concern over the last two years, especially as we head to the midterms.
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Virtually every election law expert, voting machine consultant, and government official with knowledge of Election Day processes agrees that the result of the 2016 presidential election will not suffer from election rigging or voter fraud.
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"We have monitored and staffed the post-election canvasses — where voting machine tapes are compared to poll-books, provisional ballots are resolved, and all of the math is double checked from election night," he wrote.
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Voting machine vendors and election officials have long insisted that no one can manipulate voting machines and ballots because tamper-evident seals used to secure them would prevent intruders from doing so without anyone noticing.
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Princeton professor and voting machine hacking expert Andrew W. Appel noted that the AccuVote machines Georgia uses can spread viruses to each other by infecting ballot definition cartridges that get carried from machine to machine.
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The security firm Cylance released a report disclosing a new attack on the popular Sequoia AVC Edge voting machine, potentially compromising both the machine's public vote tally and a backup known as the Protective Counter.
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Barron said during the press conference that election staffers entered the wrong registration number into the assignment and that there is supposed to be one voting machine to every 350 voters registered in that precinct.
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Mr. Trump also spread voting machine-related misinformation on Election Day, falsely citing reports about isolated problems with voting machines in one Utah county as evidence that problems were being reported across the entire country.
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In 20088, Holt introduced a variation of his 22004 reform bill, and once again it quickly died, in part because voting-machine vendors launched a formidable lobbying effort to quash the requirement of paper trails.
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In addition to the comments it sent the Copyright Office, it also sent a vaguely threatening letter to its own customers, warning them against helping researchers by providing them with voting-machine software to examine.
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Why it matters: While a lot of attention gets paid to voting machine security, auditing machines during an election is equally as important: It's the only way to tell whether machines were hacked or malfunctioned.
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The system will use fully open source voting software, instead of the closed, proprietary software currently used in the vast majority of voting machines, which no one outside of voting machine testing labs can examine.
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Abiding by the October 31 deadline, voting machine makers Dominion Voting, Election Systems & Software (ES&S) , Five Cedars Group, Hart InterCivic and Unisyn Voting Solutions have responded, though some of the details are far from reassuring.
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In The Choice Is Yours, now open at bitforms gallery, Dubois repurposes a series of mechanical voting machines made in the 40s, 50s, and 60s by the Automatic Voting Machine (AVM) Corporation in Jamestown, New York.
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Speaking as one who has been able to break into a voting machine before, I can tell you right now that focusing on the security of the devices themselves is not the big issue at hand.
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In a letter, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden — an outspoken member of the Senate Intelligence Committee — called on six of the main voting machine manufacturers in the U.S. to provide details about their cybersecurity efforts to date.
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Johnny Isakson to resign at end of year Groups push lawmakers for hearings on voting machine security Campaign watchdog to 'grind to a halt' after top-level resignation MORE (R-Mo.) said in an emailed statement.
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My background is technical without specific expertise in voting machine hardware or security, but with that caveat: Could nefarious actors change the software to make votes switch from one candidate to another in the final tallies?
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Further, guidance from voting machine manufacturers on how best to sanitize machines, guidance from CDC on best practices for hand washing, and guidance from our respective state health officials is being provided to every polling location.
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Dale Robinson, a Los Angeles voter, confirmed to Recode in an email that one voting machine was "down completely" and the other was working "very slowly" at the first voting center he visited in Highland Park.
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According to the report, titled "The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine," ES&S had advised officials to install remote-access software so that the company's technicians could access the voting machines without being physically present.
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Many point out that standard voting machines are required to be disconnected from the internet, and that even if an app passes a security audit, it is significantly more vulnerable to hacking than an isolated voting machine.
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A major U.S. voting machine manufacturer revealed that it installed remote-access software on some election management systems that it sold in the early 2000s, according to a letter released by a Democratic senator on Tuesday. Sen.
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On Election Day 2016, a video purporting to show a voting machine preventing someone from voting for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania went viral, picking up tens of thousands of retweets and prompting widespread claims of vote rigging.
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The request for proposals specifies that vendors must be able to distribute all voting machine equipment before March 31, which is a week after the state's presidential primary election is set to be held on March 24.
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While many organizations welcome the hijinks of DefCon participants — including the Pentagon — the voting machine manufacturers don't generally seem eager to have hackers of any stripe show them where they are vulnerable… and that should worry you.
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In her investigation, McFadden and her team uncovered that many voting machine manufacturers, including ES&S, for years didn't have to adhere to any cybersecurity standards and as a result now pose a major national security threat.
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As a first step, Microsoft worked with state, county and town election officials and nonprofit voting machine company VotingWorks to embed ElectionGuard into voting devices that people are using in Fulton, which has a population of 3,257.
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"And most importantly, we have monitored and staffed the post-election canvasses -- where voting machine tapes are compared to poll-books, provisional ballots are resolved, and all of the math is double checked from election night," Elias said.
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It's true that computer scientists have proved, over and over again, that given a few minutes alone in a voting booth with the right piece of outdated equipment, they can alter a voting machine to do their bidding.
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"I would say, 'look, we got to remember the great quote from Benjamin Graham: In the short run, the stock market is a voting machine, in the long term, it's a weighing machine,'" Bezos recalled at the forum.
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TechCrunch understands the decision was made around the time that four senior Democratic lawmakers demanded to know why ES&S, and two other major voting machine makers, were still selling decade-old machines known to contain security flaws.
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He also urges the US government to create a dedicated federal cybersecurity agency, as well as state-level security groups for preventing direct election-hacking — theoretically finding and fixing vulnerabilities like a recently revealed voting machine security hole.
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Election officials initially described them as a system of "electronic voting" but, because of a lack of clarity over whether they are legal in Congo, changed the wording to "semi-electronic voting" and then to "a voting machine".
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If someone did manage to alter the electronic vote record by hacking a voting machine, our best first chance to discover that would be a post-election audit that compares the electronic vote tally to the paper tally.
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Rep. Hank Johnson's bill aimed at preventing the hacking of voting machines would designate voting technology as critical infrastructure, allowing the Department of Homeland Security to directly oversee and standardize measures from voting machine testing to audit procedures.
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Legislation focuses on both machines and other campaign infrastructure: There are several bills for election security currently under consideration, many of which include funding for both voting machine improvements and other aspects of the infrastructure, like voter databases.
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In a series of tweets, he attributed his loss in part to straight-ticket voting, in which voters can select which party they want to vote for and the voting machine automatically selects all candidates of that party.
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Documents filed with the federal case show differences in 2017 between the number of people reported as voting in certain polling places in Fulton County and the number of ballots cast as reported by voting machine result printouts.
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Reports earlier this year suggested the FBI is investigating numerous instances in which Russian hackers may have probed the security of voter registration, database and voting machine systems in dozens of states in the leadup to the 2016 election.
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In much more serious news, every single voting machine at the annual hacker conference DefCon got hacked, which is pretty alarming considering there's actually municipal elections taking place in states around the country in just over 14 weeks. Yeah.
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Wyden's questions and goes on to make the dubious claim that because state laws vary, heterogeneity in voting machine systems is a feature, not a bug, and the lack of uniform federal standards for these systems makes them safer.
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At a time when election boards are facing very real threats of foreign interference, though, a voting machine that doesn't accurately record votes has also raised major, understandable concerns — even if it's just the result of a bad interface.
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The 34-year-old actress took to Instagram on Monday to share a selfie collage of herself posing with her "I Voted" sticker, a notable difference from the selfie her husband, Justin Timberlake, took with an actual voting machine.
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The report from the inspector general, out Wednesday, said progress had been made but Homeland Security, the department charged with protecting elections and the back-end voting machine infrastructure, still "does not have dedicated staff" focused on election infrastructure.
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" Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing and mentor to Warren Buffett, explained the concept of value investing by saying, "In the short run, the market is like a voting machine, tallying up which firms are popular and unpopular.
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Security experts are also concerned about a type of electronic voting machine known as a "ballot-marking device," which lets voters select their choices on a touchscreen before printing out a paper slip that serves as the official ballot.
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Two of the hackers working on the touchscreen voting machine, who identified only by their first names, Nick and Josh, had managed to install Windows Media Player on the machine and use it to play Astley's classic-turned-trolling-track.
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He similarly deflected a question about whether Alexa could tell voters what voting machines were being used in their area, which some voters might want to know for various reasons, but the recent focus on possible voting machine hacks in particular.
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Harri Hursti, a renowned voting machine hacker and founder of Nordic Innovation Labs, who helped organize the DEFCON event, said the existence of the machines' vulnerabilities were less remarkable than how easily a creative and skilled hacker can breach one.
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Amid allegations of voting machine malfunction, Gore's campaign requested a recount by hand in four counties under a tight deadline from the Florida secretary of state, while Bush's campaign filed a federal injunction to stop the manual counting, citing constitutional violations.
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But most experts agree there is likely no new federal money in the pipeline, so state legislatures need to bite the bullet and find the money to avoid voting machine crisis, and their citizens need to demand that they do. 4.
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In one system we timed, it took exactly five seconds to connect the voting machine to a device that could inject malware through a port that was easy to access and only a few inches from where voters scan their ballots.
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Warren's plan, which was published in an article in Medium, would have the federal government replace every voting machine in the nation with "state-of-the-art equipment," specifically machines that will allow for hand-marked, voter-verified paper ballots.
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Election officials can't act on findings about voting machine and voting infrastructure vulnerabilities, DefCon speakers noted on Friday, if they don't have the money to replace obsolete equipment, invest in network improvements, launch post-election audit programs, and hire cybersecurity staff.
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The kids were able to wipe the memory cards from a recreation of state voting machine interfaces (within five seconds) and either replace a voter's ballot altogether or overload the system with fake voters to render a real voter's ballot useless.
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An attacker might be able to do this directly through the modem to the voting machine, or infect the election-management system on the other end and install malware that gets passed to voting machines when officials program future elections.
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So if this year's election has you feeling nostalgic for a magical period when the political climate was kinder and gentler, you might be willing to shell out $2,400 for this voting machine as a reminder that it never really existed.
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But the prototypes it creates will be available for existing voting machine vendors or others to freely adopt and customize without costly licensing fees or the millions of dollars it would take to research and develop a secure system from scratch.
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"In some cases, compromise of a single system component (such as a precinct voting machine) was sufficient to compromise not just the vote tally on that machine, but to compromise the entire county back end system," Blaze testified before Congress last year.
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Set to be made available this summer and piloted during the 2020 elections, ElectionGuard is not a complete voting machine, but rather a platform for handling voting data that can either empower existing systems or have new ones built on top of it.
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The electronic voting machine considered most vulnerable to attack in the 2016 election is known as a "direct-recording machine," many of which run outdated operating systems such as Windows XP, which Microsoft has not patched since April 2014, according to Carbon Black.
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Now in its second year, the Voting Machine Hacking Village at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas features a new set of voting machines—all of which will actually be used in the 2018 midterm elections—for attendees to analyze and attack.
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Without recounts in other states, we have no way of knowing if other large urban areas, where black people tend to reside, had a big pool of votes discarded because the voting machine allegedly could not determine who the voter intended to select.
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The groups cited reports in recent months that certain voting systems rely on outdated Windows 7 operating systems, that one major election machine vendor installed remote access software on its election systems and concerns about a lack of transparency from voting machine vendors.
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As for intimidation, each voting machine is set up behind a barrier and at least 217 feet from the line of those waiting to vote, and no individual is allowed past the check-in/voting code-distribution table without a voting code slip.
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There was plenty of blame to go around for the outbreak of voting machine breakdowns and long delays that plagued New York City polling places on Election Day, but no one was certain of a precise solution — only that one was needed fast.
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The voting-machine industry — an estimated $300-million-a-year business — has long been as troubling as the machines it makes, known for its secrecy, close political ties (overwhelmingly to the Republican Party) and a revolving door between vendors and election offices.
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An independent election security expert named Harri Hursti, who consults with election districts and helps run the annual Voting Machine Hacking Village at the Def Con security conference, also verified the methodology for Motherboard without being told how to find the systems.
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Mailing in your ballot means you don't have to figure out which polling station to go to, wait in line (potentially for hours), and be surprised at the voting machine by a bevy of ballot measures and local elections you know nothing about.
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Photo: GizmodoA noisy cheer went up from the crowd of hackers clustered around the voting machine tucked into the back corner of a casino conference room—they'd just managed to load Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" onto the WinVote, effectively rickrolling democracy.
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The stock market can serve as a voting machine on next year's earnings, and for the moment, it is signaling doubt that companies can deliver on the expected earnings growth of roughly 10 percent and revenue growth of roughly 6 percent for 2019. Why?
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Election Systems and Software (ES&S), which makes the ExpressPoll-5000, is one of the most popular e-poll book manufacturers in the country, said Barbara Simons, who sits on the board of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan research group that advocates for voting-machine security.
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Still, according to a new report, a voting machine used in more than half of the states is vulnerable, and "senior intelligence officials have described Russian efforts to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections as deep, real and ongoing," per the Wall Street Journal.
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Guidelines issued by the federal Elections Assistance Commission call for passwords to election systems to be changed periodically, and the EAC 's Voluntary Voting System Guidelines state that voting machine vendors "shall provide a description of recommended policies for effective password management" to customers.
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In early October, Senate Intel Committee member and Oregon Senator Ron Wyden issued a letter to the nation's six major voting machine makers calling on them to issue details on their security practices and assurances that they were taking voting integrity seriously moving forward.
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Sam Taylor, spokesman for Secretary of State Rolando Pablos, told the Associated Press that the state "has no legal authority whatsoever to force" voting machine vendors to make upgrades to their systems as long as the systems are in compliance with federal and state law.
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After years of criticism that its voting machines contained flawed and insecure software, voting machine supplier Election System and Software announced this week that it will stop selling machines that have no paper ballot—as the primary machines in any given jurisdiction, at least.
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"Congress must pass legislation establishing a more robust testing program—one that mandates that all voting-machine suppliers submit their systems to stronger, programmatic security testing conducted by vetted and approved researchers," writes ES&S CEO Tom Burt in an op-ed for Roll Call.
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Tippecanoe County Clerk Julie Roush was notified by a voter who called in saying their selection on a voting machine at a local polling location would be changed by the machine, which would mark an "X" for someone other than the candidate the voter wanted.
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The United States Justice Department was forced to sue New York in 2006 for having the worst record in the nation when it came to complying with the Help America Vote Act, the law passed after the disastrous voting machine problems in Florida in 2000.
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Rodney DavisRodney Lee DavisGroups push lawmakers for hearings on voting machine security House Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 22019 House Democrats target 2020 GOP incumbents in new ad MORE (R-Ill.), the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, in a statement.
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On arguably the other end of the establishment/counterculture spectrum, at Def Con today a "Voting Machine Hacking Village" was set up, organized by technical experts such as Matt Blaze, to assess vulnerabilities in a suite of voting machines purchased at surplus and on eBay.
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"If the results sheets don't arrive on time then it means that the vote results will be transferred via the voting machine, and that is going to inflame suspicions of fraud," said one of these diplomats, who has been in recent contact with CENI officials.
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Workers might also run or print out a summary of the voting machine, a kind of receipt for the number of ballots cast, said Barry Burden, a political science professor and the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
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US Voting Machine Supplier Leaks 1.8 Million Chicago Voter Records [Updated]A leading US supplier of voting machines confirmed on Thursday that it exposed the personal…Read more Read"The fact that the Russians probed the election-related systems of 21 states is truly disturbing," Sen.
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Photo: John Bazemore (AP)The contentious and still unresolved Georgia gubernatorial election has led to a variety of claims of unfair play on the part of GOP candidate and current Secretary of State Brian Kemp, including a voter suppression lawsuit and reports of voting machine technical malfunctions.
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An election security expert who has done risk-assessments in several states since 2016 recently found a reference manual that appears to have been created by one voting machine vendor for county election officials and that lists critical usernames and passwords for the vendor's tabulation system.
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As one of the more tech-savvy members of Congress, he's a proponent of new legislation that will regulate voting machine companies and data firms such as Cambridge Analytica, but also believes existing laws have given platforms like Twitter more power than they have deigned to use.
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The NSA document she gave the news outlet contained technical details on what it said were Russian attempts to hack election officials in the United States and a voting-machine company before the November 2016 presidential election, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the case have said.
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The NSA document in question provided technical details on what it said were Russian attempts to hack election officials in the United States and a voting-machine firm before the presidential election in November, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the case have confirmed to Reuters.
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The U.S. government has concluded that Russian hackers interfered in the 2016 presidential election, and a National Security Agency (NSA) document published by The Intercept (and allegedly leaked by Reality Winner) shows Russian military intelligence attacked computers at an American voting machine company days before the election.
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The Science Committee should move immediately to consider and address the adequacy of voting machine standards, other sources of security gaps in our election infrastructure, and social engineering tools that are being exploited by the enemies of our democracy to derail and degrade our democratic institutions.
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"We should always be careful to point out that there hasn't been any evidence that votes were changed in any election in this way, and that's a true fact," said Matt Blaze, a computer-science professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a voting-machine-security expert.
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It was an ugly debut for the $2750 million machines, which marked the most ambitious effort in decades to create a super-secure and accessible voting system outside the grasp of a cadre of companies that control more than 90 percent of the voting machine market.
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, has been dismissive of the preoccupation with near-term stock price swings, often quoting the influential investor Benjamin Graham, who said the market is a voting machine in the short run and a weighing machine in the long run.
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"In every single case where a U.S. voting machine has been tested in the laboratory and given rigorous security scrutiny, it has been found to have vulnerabilities that would allow a sophisticated adversary to manipulate votes," said J. Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan computer science professor.
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Furthermore, the IP addresses for the firewalls of the non-confirmed systems all appear to be in counties that also use ES&S voting machines, according to a crosscheck against a web tool operated by Verified Voting, a nonprofit that tracks voting machine use around the country.
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Patching voting equipment that isn't connected to the internet is difficult for many counties with little technical expertise, and vendors fall back on how unlikely it is that a registered poll worker or an elected official would have the time it takes to tamper with a voting machine.
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Matt Bernhard, a grad student at the University of Michigan and voting machine security expert, posted two videos online last week showing how he can open different types of plastic tamper-evident ties used in Michigan in just seconds, using a shim crafted from an aluminum Dr. Pepper can.
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"Our main concern with the approach taken by DEFCON is that it utilizes a pseudo environment which in no way replicates state election systems, networks or physical security," the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) said in a statement, pointing to the Voting Machine Hacking Village events.
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To achieve this, voting machine vendors should be ubiquitously employing an advanced data protection and encryption model that will protect all sensitive voter information — both while it is stored on databases and/or voting machines and while this same information is being sent to and from these systems.
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The 1.8 million records, voter names, addresses, phone numbers, drivers license numbers, party affiliations, dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers were in an Amazon cloud account owned by Nebraska-based voting machine firm Election Systems & Software (ES&S) that the company had configured to allow public access.
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A video surfaced Sunday afternoon of a voter trying to type in a number for a presidential candidate on a voting machine only to have it immediately change their vote to one for Fernando Haddad, the candidate of Brazil's leftist, populist former president Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party (PT).
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The major tech and telecom companies met with the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday; Google's CEO will testify before the House on bias accusations; kids are already outsmarting parental iPhone time limits on iOS 12; and a report says a voting machine used in half of U.S. is vulnerable to attack.
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The passwords in the manual appear to be for the Open Elect Central Suite, the backend election-management system used to create election definition files for each voting machine before every election—the files that tell the machine how to apportion votes based on the marks voters make on a ballot.
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I have some good news there: as Politico's excellent voting machine interactive shows, most U.S. states have and/or are moving to paper ballots (and most of the remainder were/are going to mostly vote for the party apparently opposed to democracy anyway.) The audit situation, though, is … more complicated.
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After voting machine manufacturers dismissed their findings, saying would-be hackers could never gain access to voting machines in the real world, one of the Princeton researchers took photographs of unguarded machines at local voting halls and posted them to his blog—a tradition he has maintained in every subsequent election.
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On top of confusion about what needs to be replaced, cybersecurity expert Charles Stewart III told me that voting machine vendors are a small and highly secretive lot, which keeps price competition down and makes it "hard for locals to know what a fair price should be" for any system.
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The groups, which include the National Election Defense Coalition, Electronic Privacy Information Center, R Street Institute and Public Citizen, asked the House Administration Committee and the Senate Rules and Administration Committee in a letter to schedule election security hearings that include testimony from voting machine vendors and election security experts.
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California predominantly relies on hand-marked paper ballots, but many voters in Los Angeles County will use a new type of voting machine that raised objections from some security experts — and which the state approved only after imposing an unusual array of security requirements to address "critical flaws" and other shortcomings.
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Y.) and Rodney DavisRodney Lee DavisBoth sides of the aisle call for local, state, federal cooperation on homelessness Voting equipment companies throw weight behind enhanced disclosures Voting machine vendors to testify on election security MORE (Ill.) at an event dubbed "The Right to a Roof: Tackling Homelessness," sponsored by Wells Fargo.
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Stoller points out the incredible degree of corporate concentration that our government has allowed, in almost every sector: four major banks, four major airlines, two phone makers, five big tech companies, Amazon and Walmart, Experian and Equifax, meat processing, vitamin C producers, voting machine companies, pharmaceuticals—the list does not stop.
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But the fact that only a handful of such machines were made available at DEF CON and one of them had personal records that were so easily available doesn't inspire confidence, said Matt Blaze, a renowned security researcher who has authored several studies on voting machine security and who helped organize the village.
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She won Jefferson County, which includes Louisville and is the largest by far of the state's 120 counties, by nearly 10 times that amount In his filing on Tuesday, Sanders requested a full check and recount of every voting machine and absentee ballot from all precincts in the counties, according to Grimes' website.
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A separate survey covering 10 other states found last year that 92 percent of Muslim women supported a ban on the immediate triple talaq divorce, raising the possibility that some, in the moment of pushing a voting machine button, might defy their community and choose the space next to the BJP's lotus flower.
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The nation's top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them.
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"Unless the relief sought by Plaintiffs is granted, the State's recount and certification deadlines will force local canvassing boards to unconstitutionally reject the ballots cast by Floridians that were improperly rejected on Election Night due to voting machine error and that would be counted in a machine or manual recount," the lawsuit reads.
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Although the election results that are transmitted via modem are unofficial—official votes are taken directly from the voting machine memory cards when they arrive at county offices—a significant discrepancy between the unofficial tallies and the official ones would create mistrust in the election results and confusion about which ones were accurate.
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"Congress's decision to appropriate additional HAVA (Help America Vote Act) money one year ago to strengthen election security was the right thing to do, but today we clearly see the gap between what states need and the expenditures so far," said Marian Schneider, president of Verified Voting, a nonprofit that advocates for voting machine integrity.
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Take22ToVote started in 2000 when she had a friend construct a prototype of a voting machine that she took to events at local community centers where a small staff of volunteer mentors educated people about everything from what type of identification to bring to the polls to the role that local officials played in making policy.
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" ES&S spokesperson Katina Granger said the company "supports third-party, white-hat, ethical research and penetration testing," and added that it "believes Congress should establish a mandated security testing program for all voting machine manufacturers, holding each of us to the same standards of testing and research to help restore faith in the security of our nation's elections.
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Another even more effective technique would be to send a Chick-fil-A phishing email to a voting machine vendor (one of my hacker contacts tells me that is the best click bait.) Then, having gained access to the vendor's system, sit back and relax while that vendor plants your malware for you on voting machines across the country.
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Building off the idea from Graham and David Dodd that the stock market is a "voting machine" in the short term and a "weighing machine" in the long term, Klarman said that in today's world of extremely liquid investing the shortest term is best thought of as an ATM, responding to cash needs and wavering sentiment of investors.
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A spokesperson for House Administration Committee Chairwoman Zoe LofgrenZoe Ellen LofgrenGroups push lawmakers for hearings on voting machine security Key House Republican demands answers on federal election security efforts Live coverage: Mueller testifies before Congress MORE (D-Calif.) told The Hill earlier this month that Lofgren plans to take up legislation to push back against social media disinformation campaigns this fall.
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Johnny Isakson to resign at end of year Groups push lawmakers for hearings on voting machine security Campaign watchdog to 'grind to a halt' after top-level resignation MORE (R-Mo.) said earlier this year that he had no plans to bring up election security legislation due to his belief that these bills would go nowhere in the full Senate.
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But now, every time I imagine a nefarious hacker targeting a voting database to commit a crime, I can counterbalance the thought by recalling a thoughtful conversation I had with Nick Bishop and Mike Westmacott, two hackers I met at Defcon who were diligently taking apart and testing a Diebold voting machine in an attempt to identify — and increase awareness of — its vulnerabilities.
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The day before the conference began, ES&S, one of the largest providers of election equipment in the US, sent an email to its customers assuring them that while "attendees will absolutely access some voting systems internal components ... Physical security measures make it extremely unlikely that an unauthorized person, or a person with malicious intent, could ever access a voting machine," the company said.
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One hacker at this year's village, who requested anonymity because he didn't want to tie his research to his day job as a programmer, took a Diebold TSX voting machine — versions of which are in use in at least some areas of 20 states — and turned it into a jukebox that played music from its tinny speakers and a display for an Illuminati GIF he found online.
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In fact, many voting machines across the country run on years-old unpatched Windows and Linux operating systems, partly because counties don't have the staff to maintain the systems and have long believed that the systems are secure, and partly because (due to long delays in getting new or altered versions of voting machines certified) voting machine vendors often sell systems without the latest patches installed.
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Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.) on Tuesday questioned a leading voting machine manufacturer on whether it sells products with remote-access software, raising concerns about the machines' potential vulnerability to hacking.
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Sen. Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.) on Tuesday questioned a leading voting machine manufacturer on whether it sells products with remote-access software, raising concerns about the machines' potential vulnerability to hacking.
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The Utilizing Strategic Allied (USA) Telecommunications Act, sponsored by lawmakers including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard BurrRichard Mauze BurrHillicon Valley: Apple, Barr clash over Pensacola shooter's phone | Senate bill would boost Huawei alternatives | DHS orders agencies to fix Microsoft vulnerability | Chrome to phase out tracking cookies Senators offer bill to create alternatives to Huawei in 220006G tech Voting machine vendors to testify on election security MORE (R-N.
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Rodney DavisRodney Lee DavisBoth sides of the aisle call for local, state, federal cooperation on homelessness Voting equipment companies throw weight behind enhanced disclosures Voting machine vendors to testify on election security MORE (R-Ill.), the top Republican on the committee, told The Hill that he "certainly hoped" the hearing would help move legislation forward, while noting the opposition by Republicans to previous Democratic-backed bills that the House has passed.
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The Utilizing Strategic Allied (USA) Telecommunications Act, sponsored by lawmakers including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard BurrRichard Mauze BurrHillicon Valley: Apple, Barr clash over Pensacola shooter's phone | Senate bill would boost Huawei alternatives | DHS orders agencies to fix Microsoft vulnerability | Chrome to phase out tracking cookies Senators offer bill to create alternatives to Huawei in 5G tech Voting machine vendors to testify on election security MORE (R-N.
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The county uses a third-party vendor to help with some of its election-management work, and Hursti initially thought the binder and advice to elections staff might have come from the third-party vendor; but when he discovered a binder with the same information being used by an election office in a different state where the third-party vendor does not assist with elections, he concluded that it came from the voting machine vendor.
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Read more from NBC News: Uber, Lyft propose $2230 an hour minimum wage for drivers in California, but there's a catch As the school year begins, concerns about hackers grow Voting machine issues and viral video cast shadow on Mississippi governor's race But experts and industry advocates say the changes Hawley and others have proposed are rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Section 21990, and could unravel the internet as we know it.
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Although the state has only two seats out of 20143 in the national Parliament's lower house, the Lok Sabha, elections here are a reliable source of journalistic tchotchkes: the arrival of an electronic voting machine, in the snow, at the "highest polling station" in Luguthang village or the somewhat overcooked tale of intrepid election officials braving jungles and trekking "six kilometers over uneven terrain" to set up a polling booth for a single desultory voter.
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Waiting was a luxury coach emblazoned with the Miss Universe logo and the words "Confidently Beautiful" that would ferry me to the Mall of Asia Arena, where I was coached in operating the electronic voting machine along with the rest of the judging panel: Cynthia Bailey, model turned Real Housewife of Atlanta; Francine LeFrak, a film and theater producer with a jewelry company called Same Sky that employs women artisans around the world; and three former Miss Universe winners.
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In case you missed them, here are some of our recent pieces:Private data of more than 1,100 NFL players, agents exposedGOP rep pitches fines for hacked credit-monitoring firmsSenator presses voting machine makers on whether they have been hackedWhite House official calls for ending Social Security numbers as means of identificationEuropean Union courts to hear case that could hobble FacebookEC says 2016 hack exposed personal dataEx-Equifax CEO: Tech staff were told to patch security flaw before breach View the discussion thread.
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If the government asserts that the current CFAA only applies to networked computers, and if it succeeds in adding an amendment about non-connected systems that narrowly applies only to voting machines, the government opens the door for defendants to argue that any case involving a computer that is not connected to the internet and is not a voting machine can't be prosecuted under the CFAA—this would include electronic pollbooks that are used to check-in voters at the polls and verify their eligibility to vote.
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One could describe all of its 290 constituent "villages" (including the Voting Machine Hacking Village, where attendees deconstructed and scrutinized the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines, and the Lockpick Village, where visitors could tinker with locks and learn about hardware and physical security), offer a complete list of this year's presentations (including one by Rob Joyce, a senior cybersecurity official at the National Security Agency), catalog its many contests and events (like the Tin Foil Hat Contest and Hacker Karaoke) and still not get at its essence.
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GOP Data Firm Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million American VotersPolitical data gathered on more than 0003 million US citizens was exposed this month after a…Read more ReadUS Voting Machine Supplier Leaks 1.8 Million Chicago Voter Records [Updated]A leading US supplier of voting machines confirmed on Thursday that it exposed the personal…Read more ReadStolen California Voter Database Held for Bitcoin Ransom [Updated]An Amazon AWS server believed to contain files on all of California's registered voters was left…Read more ReadYahooYahoo, to our knowledge, did not suffer a data breach this year.
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