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 late for some critical targets. By this point during the … Read More
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 after the Holidays for the next release in … Read More
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, threatening to act on their own if they don’t. “For months … Read More
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 out for these at regular intervals over the next several … Read More
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 the Republik Srpska and its OFAC listed President Milorad Dodik. The … Read More
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
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
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
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 laws to promote proof-of-citizenship requirements by states, an unsealed federal … Read More
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 the Trump-Russia scandal. Naturally, this is a touchy and dicey … Read More