Election Tech

The Cyber Navigator Internship Program, led by the University of Virginia, connects students at several schools with local governments. Established in 2021, it helps election offices strengthen their cybersecurity.

The exercise is an effort by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to reassure voters that voting computers can be trusted, along with upcoming testing to ensure they’re faithfully recording votes.

In Broward and Palm Beach counties and elsewhere, the sheer number of visitors to county elections websites delayed results reporting. Actual tabulation of ballots, which is not done online, was unaffected.

Clark County, home to 70 percent of Nevada voters, implemented the centralized system last year, but on Saturday, the state’s remaining counties were added. Nevada now has one database for voter registration information statewide.

Officials in Ottawa County are beefing up their elections results web page before the Nov. 5 general election, after a large number of visitors sent it offline for more than an hour during the Aug. 6 primary.

A retest Tuesday of Laramie County machines used to count absentee and recount ballots wrapped with no errors. A lawsuit from the Wyoming Republican Party was among the factors leading to the new test.

The Wyoming Republican Party filed a lawsuit Thursday against Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee over a flawed voting machine test that was performed earlier this week.

Midland County, Mich., residents looking to track primary election results this week will need to head to a new website as the county has made the switch to Enhanced Voting.

Two bills making their way through the state Legislature take aim at AI-generated audio or visual material, and “materially deceptive content” related to elections.

Local governments have turned to GIS tech to enhance their election process, for staff and voters alike. This year, several jurisdictions will debut new features to further improve transparency and make voting easier.

Social media screening company Ferretly has launched a tool to help officials weed out extremists who apply for such election-season jobs as canvassers and poll watchers, the latest example of election-securing tech.

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has tracked down the source of recent presidential ballot deadline misinformation. It originated from Grok, the AI chatbot available to premium users of social media platform X.

Panelists in a recent webinar discussed how bad actors might want to tamper with voter registration databases — and how election offices around the country have been working to stay resilient against threats.

The idea was to triple-check this year’s presidential election results by uploading images of every ballot cast, scanning them with text-recognition software and creating an independent vote count.

Ada County, Idaho, has launched a tool that lets the public view ballot images and cast vote records, using it for new local elections for the first time in May. Now, other counties might also adopt it.

Louisiana's top election official announced Wednesday that the state has entered into a data-sharing agreement with Alabama meant to "ensure the further accuracy of their voter registration lists."

The San Bernardino Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to install wireless cameras at ballot drop box locations across the county in the name of election security.

The county, the state’s largest by land area, will offer voters a new service via Missouri-based software company KNOWiNK. Ballots in future elections will have QR codes and be trackable online.