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 to mounting evidence Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 … Read More
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 to Jim Crow-era poll taxes and literacy tests. The New … Read More
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 for Breitbart News, Kris Kobach, the commission’s vice chairman, called it … Read More
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 is now on to replace the machines, which are used … Read More
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 extent where public trust in the correct tabulation of votes … Read More
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is a leading figure on President Donald Trump‘s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. He is also now a paid columnist on a conservative website. According to the Kansas City Star, Kobach — who has penned seven pieces for Breitbart over … Read More
“Valuable resources are spent investigating and responding to cyber incidents that could have easily been prevented,” the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology declares in its analysis of a recently proposed amendment. Looking to change this narrative, Lindsey Graham and Amy Klobuchar … Read More
In the face of America’s abysmal voter participation rates, lawmakers have two choices: They can make voting easier, or they can make it harder. Illinois made the right choice this week, becoming the 10th state, along with the District of Columbia, to … Read More
A federal judge on Wednesday tore into President Trump’s voter commission for reneging on a promise to fully disclose public documents before a July 19 meeting, ordering the government to meet new transparency requirements and eliciting an apology from administration … Read More
A quarter of the members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, whose purview includes national cybersecurity, have resigned. In a group resignation letter, they cited both specific shortfalls in the administration’s approach to cybersecurity, and broader concerns that Trump and … Read More