August 20, 2024

Election officials like Tina Peters are a more pressing threat to elections than theoretical voting machine hacks

“Jennifer Morrell, a partner at the Elections Group, has long criticized DEF CON. The Voting Village, she said, ‘continues to erode public trust by highlighting vulnerabilities in outdated voting systems that are no longer in use, serving to advance the organizer’s own interests.’ By contrast, she said, other attempts at investigating machine security — like the recent Election Security Research Forum — ‘foster collaboration to genuinely strengthen the security of our election systems.'”