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Following a request for proposals in February, officials will host presentations from four vendors. The county’s existing ...
As election technology ages, security risks increase — particularly with closed, proprietary systems that offer limited visibility to outside parties able to identify vulnerabilities.
Voting technology has been hardened over the past several election cycles, boosting security and making it easier to double-check results, if need be. Voting tech has also gotten a boost from a ...
American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...
As this volatile election approaches, citizens are skeptical about whether our electoral system -- particularly the technology used in it -- is precise, unbiased or secure enough to produce a fair ...
The 2016 U.S. presidential election shined a light on outdated election technology. So what steps must be taken and what technology upgrades are needed to restore the public trust in how we select ...
Our election technology infrastructure has been allowed to deteriorate to the point where it is plagued by security problems, runaway costs, and terrible usability, ...
In the U.S., a range of proposed federal laws regulating the technology, including banning deceptive deepfakes in elections and creating a new agency to oversee AI, haven't gained much traction.
The Iowa caucus debacle proved that a 21st-century election requires 19th-century technology. By Kevin Roose After Monday’s Iowa caucus debacle, I’ve decided that Americans should vote by ...
Updated at 3:50 p.m. ET. Election technology company Smartmatic filed a massive lawsuit Thursday against Fox News, saying the network and some of its biggest on-air personalities made it into a ...
An unfounded conspiracy theory of widespread election fraud claims that an election technology company called Smartmatic switched votes in the 2020 election. But Smartmatic provided ballot-marking ...