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Ensuring election integrity: The overlooked last mile of securing voter data
Reported by helpnetsecurity.com
With 99 percent of America’s votes counted by computers, security experts agree that our elections remain extremely vulnerable for a cyberattack. Fourteen states are still using fragile voting equipment consisting of digital endpoints that travel from storage to polling places. With some voting machines being so old that officials can’t even tell if they’ve been compromised or are susceptible to an attack, it’s beyond time for us to have confidence in election outcomes and correct results if problems are discovered.
