Trump Election Commissioners Are Resisting Efforts to Protect Elections From Hacking
The intelligence community fears that Russia’s meddling in US elections did not end in November 2016, and that when the Kremlin tries to intervene again, state and local voting systems will be a prime target. “They will be back,” former … Read More
US Voting Machine Supplier Leaks 1.8 Million Chicago Voter Records
A leading US supplier of voting machines confirmed on Thursday that it exposed the personal information of more than 1.8 million Illinois residents. State authorities and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were alerted this week to a major data leak … Read More
Trump Election Commissioners Are Resisting Efforts to Protect Elections From Hacking
The intelligence community fears that Russia’s meddling in US elections did not end in November 2016, and that when the Kremlin tries to intervene again, state and local voting systems will be a prime target. “They will be back,” former … Read More
Feds Seek 1.3 Million Visitor Records From Website Linked To Trump Protests
A web hosting company is fighting back against what it calls an overreaching request from Department of Justice prosecutors, who are attempting to force the company to provide information about visitors to a website used to help organize protests around … Read More
Could Paul Manafort Bring Down the Whole Trump Family?
President Trump has nice things to say about Paul Manafort. “I’ve always found Paul Manafort to be a very decent man.” Manafort, says Trump, makes money all over the place. “He’s like a lot of other people, probably makes consultant … Read More
Wall Street Journal editorial rips Bannon for White House dysfunction
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board blamed senior White House aide Stephen Bannon for chaos in the West Wing, arguing that the top Trump ally’s loyalty to the president is in question after his supporters vilified Trump’s national security adviser, … Read More
Has James O’Keefe Accidentally Stung Himself Again?
James O’Keefe III, the conservative activist famous for undercover stings, has dedicated his life to exposing the “misconduct” of others. But he’s developed a side business in accidentally exposing his own. In the latest chapter of his strange career, the … Read More
FBI raid on Manafort’s home shows Russia probe ramping up
FBI agents raided the residence of former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort last month, and he also has turned over hundreds of pages of documents to congressional investigators, as probes ramp up into the president’s campaign and Russia’s role in … Read More
Sessions’ DOJ Switches Sides In Voting Rights Case To Back Ohio Voter Purge
In yet another reversal of a previous Justice Department stance on voting rights, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ DOJ has weighed in on a pending Supreme Court caseregarding Ohio’s practice of purging inactive voters from its rolls. The department argued in an amicus brief … Read More
Russian bots are starting to attack the Republican Party
Russian-linked bots and trolls have caused a surge in use of the hashtag #ResignPaulRyan on Twitter over the last 48 hours, just as the Republican speaker of the House was returning to his hometown of Wisconsin for a month-long respite … Read More
Details on Georgia’s test to use paper ballots in elections
Georgia for the first time in nearly a decade will pilot the use of paper ballots this November in a local municipal election, the first step toward what officials said could be a statewide switch to a new voting system. Voters … Read More
U.S. voting machines are susceptible to hacking by foreign actors
Hacking and national security experts say that U.S. voting machines are vulnerable and could allow Russia to access to them, according to a new report out of DEFCON, one of the world’s longest-running hacker conferences. The report concludes that it … Read More
Our New Project To Translate Thousands Of Kremlin Emails And Documents
Protect Our Elections has received gigabytes of data encompassing thousands of emails and files from Kremlin email servers belonging to many top Russian officials, including Putin Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov and Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. The Ukraine Cyber Alliance, … Read More