Pennsylvania will launch a pilot of an election security audit in Philadelphia and Mercer County after the November elections, the Pennsylvania Department of State announced this week. The risk-limiting audit is designed to check the accuracy of election outcomes. It will use security measures new to the state and much of the country, according to […]
The second lesson is that we should be paying more attention to attacks that aim to undermine the legitimacy of an election rather than changing the election’s result. Election-stealing attacks have gotten most of the attention up to now — and we are still vulnerable to them in some places — but it appears that external threat actors may be more interested in attacking legitimacy.
The contentious U.S. presidential election elevated a number of critical security issues to the forefront, perhaps none more important for the long-term than questions of voter fraud and electronic voting security. If voting is ever to move away from paper ballots, the integrity of the process must be intact first. A team of engineering and […]
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