Last month, when Congress authorized three hundred and eighty million dollars to help states protect their voting systems from hacking, it was a public acknowledgement that, seven months out from the midterm elections, those systems remain vulnerable to attack.
Texas counties have doled out millions of dollars in recent months to replace thousands of old touch-screen voting machines that lack a paper record – a weakness security experts warn could allow Russians or other hackers to rig U.S. elections without detection.
The problem is, many of the new machines have the same vulnerability. So do similar machines in more than a dozen states across the country.
A pair of senators from each party is introducing legislation meant to deter foreign governments from interfering in future American elections.
The bill represents the latest push on Capitol Hill to address Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and counter potential threats ahead of the 2018 midterms.
A bipartisan group of six senators has introduced legislation that would take a huge step toward securing elections in the United States. Called the Secure Elections Act, the bill aims to eliminate insecure paperless voting machines from American elections while promoting routine audits that would dramatically reduce the danger of interference from foreign governments.
The U.S. Senate should enthusiastically pass the Graham-Klobuchar amendment to H.R. 2810, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2018.
The amendment would enormously strengthen defenses against cyber attacks that could compromise the integrity of elections in the United States and undermine legitimacy of government. Public confidence in the reliability of elections is a cornerstone of national security—the willingness of the people to fight and die for their country.
Colorado is adopting new election security requirements after some Republican election clerks in the state bragged about copying voting machine files. The new rules restrict access to the voting systems, with new requirements for account access and cutting in half the number of people who can get inside voting systems.
Democratic senators are calling for $5 billion in election security grants in a letter sent to President Biden on Tuesday. Led by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the senators urged for funding to be included in Biden's fiscal 2023 budget, citing the historic 160 million Americans who voted in the 2020 elections.
When a global pandemic threatened to throw the 2020 presidential election into chaos, hundreds of millions of dollars flowed to state and local election agencies to ensure they had the resources to conduct a fair and accessible election, ultimately allowing administrators to manage record turnout with relatively few hiccups.
In May 2021, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters allowed an unauthorized person to access voting machines and attend a secure update of their software. That individual, a local man named Gerald Wood, took pictures and made copies of the hard drives, with the images ending up posted online. The incident has become a high-profile flashpoint as false claims about the 2020 presidential vote risk undermining election security around the country. Here’s what’s happened so far.
MESA COUNTY, Colo. — Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters turned herself in Thursday morning on a misdemeanor warrant, according to the Mesa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). The warrant was issued after a confrontation between Peters and the Grand Junction Police Department (GJPD) earlier this week.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — The third Colorado Republican county clerk questioned over a potential election machine security breach said there is no breach, simply an email he wrote with "the wrong terminology." Republican Douglas County Clerk Merlin Klotz sent a letter explaining his email to Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold. That email was posted to the app Telegram and brought to the attention of the Secretary of State's Office.
If Republicans over the past few years have made one thing clear, it's that they really care about voter fraud. Sometimes they call it "election irregularities" or "shenanigans," but the issue has become a calling card for a party whose voters by and large falsely think elections in the U.S. are tainted. Which is what makes a currently blossoming election conspiracy so strange: The far right is now running a disinformation campaign against one of the best tools that states have to detect and prevent voter fraud.
A Black woman who was sentenced last week to six years and one day in prison for trying to register to vote in 2019 despite having a felony conviction says she was the victim of complicated voting laws in Tennessee that appeared to confuse even election officials. Prosecutors in Memphis said that accidentally or not, the woman, Pamela Moses, 44, broke the law. But Ms. Moses, a Black Lives Matter activist, and her lawyer say election officials gave her advice that they later corrected while she was seeking to have her voting rights restored.
Less than a year after Republican lawmakers pushed through a restrictive voting bill in Texas, election officials there are facing mounting challenges in implementing new voting procedures in time for the upcoming primaries. Officials are conducting their first election under SB 1, a sweeping overhaul that, among other provisions, restricts the hours that counties can offer early voting and bans election officials from sending unsolicited mail-in voting applications.
(CNN)The Supreme Court's action late Monday in an Alabama redistricting case foreshadows a new threat to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and electoral opportunities for Blacks and other racial minorities nationwide.
The Supreme Court’s decision to halt efforts to create a second mostly Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election sparked fresh warnings Tuesday that the court is becoming too politicized, eroding the Voting Rights Act and reviving the need for Congress to intervene.
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