Fixing Democracy: The Election Security Crisis and Solutions for Mending It
Kim Zetter
The 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida led to the widespread adoption of electronic voting machines in the United States. Yet these machines have proven to be more problematic than the punch card machines that precipitated Florida's crisis. Poorly built and poorly secured electronic voting machines have left U.S. elections vulnerable to software glitches and manipulation — by foreign adversaries or by malicious insiders — for 20 years. An easy solution exists to help restore integrity to the democratic process. But federal lawmakers have failed to act.
The targeting of voting infrastructure by Russian nation-state agents during the 2016 U.S. presidential election highlighted something computer security and election integrity experts had known for nearly two decades — that electronic voting systems used throughout the United States are vulnerable to manipulation from malicious outsiders and rogue insiders. Furthermore, the attempted interference in the 2016 election proved that little had been done to address this issue since the systems were first put in place in the early 2000s.
https://tnsr.org/2020/09/fixing-democracy-the-election-security-crisis-and-solutions-for-mending-it/
