Saturday, 25 August 2018

If It Doesn't Have Paper Backups and Automatic Audits, It's Not an Election Security Bill

If It Doesn't Have Paper Backups and Automatic Audits, It's Not an Election Security Bill

Right now, the U.S. Senate is debating an issue that’s critical to our democratic future: secure elections. Hacking attacks were used to try to undermine the 2016 U.S. election, and in recent years, elections in Latin America and Ukraine were also subject to cyber attacks. It only makes sense to harden the security of U.S. voting machines, which are perhaps the most direct route to impacting an election’s results. But the current bill that’s advancing in the Senate, the Secure Elections Act, is no solution at all. If it isn’t strengthened dramatically, senators should vote against this deeply flawed bill.
Read more: https://www.eff.org/if-it-doesnt-have-paper-backups-and-automatic-audits-its-not-election-security?source=Snapzu

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