The time to hack-proof the 2018 election is expiring — and Congress is way behind
Lawmakers are scrambling to push something — anything — through Congress that would help secure the nation’s voting systems ahead of the 2018 elections. But it might already be too…
Election Hacking For Beginners: Ghosts In The Machines
As part of our new Election Protection Project we bring you part 3 and 4 of Election Hacking For Beginners. Download Part 3 Here Download Part 4 Here Stay tuned…
Democratic lawmakers urge end to controversial cross-state voter check
Democrats on a legislative panel Wednesday urged state elections officials to quickly remove Illinois from a controversial interstate voter registration program amid warnings it is unreliable and vulnerable to hacking,…
Protect Our Elections Launches Voter Education Project
Protect Our Elections is launching a new cartoon series to help people understand the threats to our elections from various ways of interfering with people’s right to vote. So look…
Ed Gillespie Tied To Bosnian Genocide, Paid Millions To Push False Narratives
In a stunning series of revelations, Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for governor of Virginia, and his lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie and Associates were paid millions of dollars to represent…
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…
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…
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…
Kobach plan for Trump included federal voting laws changes
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas official who later became vice chairman of President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud drafted a proposal for Trump to change federal voter registration…
Did Russia Hack the 2016 Vote Tally? This Senator Says We Don’t Know for Sure
At a packed press conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, provided a progress report on his panel’s investigation of…
It’s Time—For A New Presidential Election!
We are calling all Americans to action to demand a new presidential election free from fraud, corruption, and Russian influence. We can accomplish this through Congressional legislation, federal litigation, and…
Kenya Court Orders New Presidential Election To Redress Fraud And Hacking
Never before seen Kenyan Supreme Court Ruling On Overturning The Election Due to Fraud: KIGALI, Rwanda — Kenya’s Supreme Court said on Wednesday that it had nullified last month’s presidential…
Paper ballots are back in vogue thanks to Russian hacking fears
SAN FRANCISCO – Once about as newsworthy as water meters, the voting machines and computers used to record and tally the nation’s ballots are suddenly a hot button issue due…
Trump election commissioner believes voter turnout is ‘far higher’ with ‘poll taxes and literacy tests’: NYT
William M. Gardner, the chairman of President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, suggeseted in an interview this week that voter turnout would be higher if the country returned…
Kris Kobach and His 5,313 Fraudulent Voters
The voter-fraud crusaders who run President Trump’s electoral-integrity commission have found their holy grail: evidence that large-scale illegal voting swung a pivotal Senate election in 2016. In his latest column…
Virginia Is Getting Rid of Its Vulnerable Voting Machines
Virginia’s Board of Elections voted unanimously to decertify all of the state’s touchscreen voting machines, which are considered by cybersecurity experts to be vulnerable to manipulation by hackers. The race…
Software to capture votes in upcoming national election is insecure
The Chaos Computer Club is publishing an analysis of software used for tabulating the German parliamentary elections (Bundestagswahl). The analysis shows a host of problems and security holes, to an…