State election officials opt for 2020 voting machines vulnerable to hacking

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State election officials opt for 2020 voting machines vulnerable to hacking
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Election officials are poised to install voting machines that experts say are still vulnerable to hacking

after the group voted to select the ES&S ExpressVote XL. “Every voter in Philadelphia should be confident that their ballots are cast securely, and their votes are counted accurately, and our new, auditable paper ballot system will help ensure that.”

“It basically turns the system into one that has all of the well-known problems that paperless … voting machines have,” said Matt Blaze, a computer science and law professor at Georgetown University. “You have to trust the software that’s being used to cast the vote.” Not every expert agrees. Joe Kiniry, CEO and chief scientist at the election technology firm Free & Fair, said forthcoming voting securityfrom the federal Election Assistance Commission would require barcode formats to adhere to a publicly defined and verifiable format.

After talking to voters during the 2018 Tennessee primaries, they concluded that “voters are disinclined to review paper trails for accuracy” and that “even when attempting to verify ballots, voters cannot accurately recall all prior choices and full ballot contents even if those choices were made only moments before.”

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