The Sarasota Triangle: Blaming Voters, Defending Machines
The reported results in the race to determine who will serve the citizens of Florida’s 13th District pose questions that strike at the core of debate over the merit of computerized voting systems. A...
View ArticleFlawed Machines and Negligent Officials Threw FL-13
On November 7, elections officials across the country congratulated themselves on what they considered a smoothly run election. But Election Day was far from flawless. Some of the worst incidents...
View ArticleJennings ignores setbacks, calls for revote in Florida
Democrat Christine Jennings was in Washington over the last two days renewing her call for a revote in her race against Rep.-elect Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), as government and independent reviews failed...
View ArticlePaperless Voting Machines Are Not Fit for Democracy
The disputed election for Florida’s 13th Congressional District has ramifications beyond who ultimately occupies that seat in the 110th Congress. Though Democrat Christine Jennings has challenged the...
View ArticlePaper Trail Is Essential To Fair Elections
I was pleased earlier this week to sign on as an original cosponsor of Rep. Rush Holt's Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act, H.R. 811. This bill would require a voter-verified paper ballot...
View ArticleJennings bullish after pre-election letter shows equipment problems
Christine Jennings’s campaign and its supporters are claiming new life in their quest for a revote after a letter describing equipment problems with Sarasota (Fla.) County’s electronic voting machines...
View ArticleEhlers rebuffs Democrats on Fla.-13
House Administration Committee ranking member Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.) Friday shot down a Democratic suggestion that the committee begin examining Democrat Christine Jennings’s contestation of the...
View ArticleMan Bites Dog: DOJ Doesn't Rubber-Stamp Discriminatory Florida Laws
Last week, the Department of Justice demanded more information from Florida about changes the state made to its voting rules before approving, or "preclearing," the law. This move was an all-too-rare...
View ArticleTrump DHS pick worried about voting machine security during Va. election
President Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday that she pressed her polling place on voting machine security when she voted in Virginia this week. Kirstjen...
View ArticleDems call for states to get $400M election security upgrades
Two House Democrats are pressing their colleagues to allot $400 million for states to upgrade outdated voting equipment and secure their election systems.Democratic Reps. Bennie Thompson (Miss.) and...
View ArticleWhy federal courts may become the next front in the battle to secure our...
Last week, a team of security researchers who run the DefCon hacking convention released a report on voting machines in use around the country that contain structural flaws ripe for exploitation by...
View ArticleProtect public trust by auditing elections: It’s easier than you might think
Pick one word for how the Russians interfered with the 2016 presidential election. How about "distrust?" They used trolling, false stories, fake accounts, and cyberattacks to sow distrust among the...
View ArticleElection security requires federal action: Think of it as an infrastructure...
The framers were futurists in many ways. The original thinking behind our various methods of choosing elected officials was both original and quite literally world-changing, but the system needs an...
View ArticleVoting tech creates growing concern for local officials
Some voters in Johnson County, Ind., found themselves waiting for hours to cast their ballots in last year’s midterm elections, but not because of a massive surge in turnout or malfunctioning voting...
View ArticleThe malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking
The key takeaway of special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election was that “There were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election … and that...
View ArticleVoting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
As the election security conversation widens beyond Russia, to include countries like Iran and China, it’s important to examine how security flaws in our country’s voting equipment increase the...
View ArticleAmerica has an election access problem — tech can't solve it
Long lines, confusion and malfunctioning machines plagued the Super Tuesday vote earlier this week, as thousands of Americans voted – or attempted to vote – in the presidential primaries. Some states...
View ArticleAmerica needs to protect the vote with uniform voting standards
You would think that after the boondoggle of the Florida recount in the 2000 presidential election that there would have been legislation passed that insured uniform standards for federal elections.The...
View ArticleGeorgia Zoom hearing interrupted by images of 9/11, swastika, porn
A virtual federal court hearing about a challenge to Georgia's voting machines was interrupted Friday due to someone in the Zoom call posting offensive videos and symbols, including a swastika, images...
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