The Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity arm and the FBI said on Tuesday they've seen no cyberattacks on voter registration databases this year, following news reports about Michigan voter data appearing on a Russian hacking forum.Source: DHS, FBI rebut reports about hacked voter data on Russian forum...
President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden with help from allies have amassed an expansive legal war chest and marshaled armies of attorneys for what is on track to be the most litigated election season in U.S. history. Source: Trump, Biden build legal armies for electoral battlefield...
Jim Irizarry has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of false and misleading information about voting access coursing through social media lately.Source: How California election officials are fighting disinformation...
Absentee ballots allow voters who are unable to go to the polls on Election Day to vote, and many voters have understandably chosen them during the COVID-19 pandemic.Source: Widespread voting by mail poses risks of disenfranchising voters, delaying election results...
Lansing — Some households have received unexpected mailings for deceased voters or since-moved occupants as part of a mass mailing of absentee ballot applications across Michigan — a development that experts and Democrats are defending against Republican criticism.Source: Michigan ballot application mailings to dead people raise Republican hackles...
People’s phones, tablets and computers are vulnerable to hackers. Securing the internet could take a decade or more. But some states are plowing ahead anyway. Some West Virginians voting in Tuesday’s primary will be allowed to tap on their phones or laptops instead of heading to the polls.Source: Why America isn’t ready for online voting...
The difference between TV game shows and California elections is that game show producers try to find the vulnerabilities to fraud and manipulation before the system starts to give away money.Source: Election integrity measures should be a part of any election changes...
(CN) – Two Arizona ballot-handling practices hamper the voting rights of minorities, and one state law was written to do just that, an en banc Ninth Circuit ruled Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by Democrats in the Republican-dominated state.Source: En Banc Ninth Circuit Tosses Arizona Voting Rules as Discriminatory...
A bipartisan panel of U.S.Source: Bipartisan Senate report calls for sweeping effort to prevent Russian interference in 2020 election...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats unveiled broad legislation Tuesday to protect the country’s elections as they investigate whether President Donald Trump inappropriately solicited foreign election help from Ukraine ahead of the 2020 vote.Source: Democrats push election security bill amid impeachment...
