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States aren’t shifting voting tech, despite ballot security concerns

States aren’t shifting voting tech, despite ballot security concerns

March 12, 2018

Via: FCW
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In 2015, the Brennan Center for Justice conducted a major study on voting machine security that found most states were relying on dangerously outdated hardware and software, leaving them vulnerable to hackers while doing little to provide for accurate post-election auditing.

On March 8, 2018, the center released an update to that report and found that not much has changed.

Jurisdictions in 41 states are using voting systems at least a decade out of date going into the 2018 elections, barely an improvement from the 2015 study, when 44 states reported long-obsolete voting tech. The number of states in which election officials said they must replace voting equipment by 2020 actually increased, from 31 in 2015 to 33 in 2018.

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