Election Technology
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Following a request for proposals in February, officials will host presentations from four vendors. The county’s existing equipment contract expires at year’s end. Luzerne is one of 13 state counties that use ballot marking devices.
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Lawmakers approved allocating the money to merge Clark County with the state’s other 16 counties in a single Voter Registration Election Management System. The endeavor is intended to increase cybersecurity and transparency.
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Officials have agreed to spend nearly $1 million on electronic voter check-in systems that will enable virtual sign-language services for deaf voters. Each polling place will have at least two tablets with the software.
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The bills range from requiring verification of absentee ballot signatures to establishing full online voting. These proposals follow a historic election that saw record levels of voter participation and baseless claims of fraud.
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Election officials in the state are pointing to the benefits of physical ballots as the national conversation around election security continues to draw focus.
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With future elections likely to divide along stark partisan lines, and election security in question, end-to-end verifiability can let voters know that their ballots have been received and not tampered with.
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Chris Krebs, the former director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told the Senate Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday that claims of election fraud are without merit.
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According to Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, the personal information of 113,000 Alaskans was compromised in an exposure involving the online voter registration database. The outcome of the recent election was not affected, however.
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The pandemic made clear just how much voters appreciate having choices in casting a ballot.
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Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was removed from his position after disputing President Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
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Despite fears of some sort of cybersecurity apocalypse during this year's presidential election, federal officials say 2020 had no meaningful interference by foreign adversaries. Other issues, however, have held fast.
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Despite unfounded claims of fraud and other improprieties by some in the political spheres, namely President Trump, election officials and private-sector experts say the election was the “most secure in American history.”
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As soon as a winner is projected in the U.S. presidential election, Facebook says it will begin displaying a notice for users to help combat misinformation about the outcome. The company has also been targeting false or misleading posts.
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As the presidential election drags on, many election officials say more state and federal money, coupled with new laws to create a more efficient and expansive mail-in voting system, would shorten future counts.
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Election misinformation typically involves false narratives of fraud that include out-of-context or otherwise misleading images and faulty statistics as purported evidence.
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Some 27 websites posing as news outlets were seized by federal authorities this week to cut down on disinformation surrounding the presidential election. The sites had ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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A new book by historian Jill Lepore explores the early days of using big data in politics and how presidential campaigns used unprecedented technology to measure and connect with the American voter.
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Technical issues with the electronic poll books used to check voters in forced at least one polling place to abandon the technology for a traditional paper record. The delays also meant extended voting hours at some polls.
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Despite concerns about foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election, officials with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say they were able to keep cyberthreats at arm's length on Election Day.
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The ongoing 2020 election has fueled fears — some valid, some unfounded — about fraud and cyberthreats before and after the votes are counted. Federal officials say Election Day is just halftime in the cybersecurity fight.
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One scenario troubling U.S. officials is the possibility of simple tactics that may create distrust about the integrity of the vote. For example, overwhelming state and local websites with traffic until they go offline.