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Elections Are Partisan Affairs. Election Security Isn't.

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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAn Open Letter on Election SecurityWilliam T. Adler, Senior Technologist, Elections &amp; Democracy, Center for Democracy &amp; TechnologyMatt Blaze, McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law, Georgetown UniversityJeff Bleich, U.S. Ambassador to Australia (ret.)Jake Braun, Executive Director, University of Chicago Harris Cyber Policy InitiativeGraham Brookie, Director and Managing Editor, Digital Forensic Research Lab, The Atlantic CouncilEmerson T. Brooking, Resident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council. Duncan Buell, NCR Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South CarolinaJack Cable, Independent Security Researcher.Joel Cardella, Director, Product &amp; Software Security, Thermo Fisher Scientific Stephen Checkoway, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Oberlin College Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Principal Investigator, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford UniversityRenée DiResta, Research Manager, Stanford Internet ObservatoryKimber Dowsett, Director of Security Engineering, TrussJoan Donovan, Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public PolicyCasey Ellis, Chairman/Founder/CTO, BugcrowdDavid J. Farber. Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon UniversityMichael Fischer, Professor of Computer Science, Yale UniversityCamille François, Chief Innovation Officer, GraphikaThe Gruqq, Independent Security ResearcherJoseph Lorenzo Hall, Senior Vice President for a Strong Internet at The Internet Society (ISOC)Candice Hoke, Founding Co-Director, Center for Cybersecurity &amp; Privacy Protection, Cleveland State UniversityDavid Jefferson, Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (retired)Douglas W. Jones, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of IowaLou Katz,&nbsp;Commissioner,&nbsp;Oakland Privacy Advisory CommissionJoseph Kiniry, Principal Scientist, Galois, CEO and Chief Scientist, Free &amp; FairKatie Moussouris, CEO, LutaSecurityPeter G. Neumann, Chief Scientist, SRI International Computer Science LabBrandie M. Nonnecke, Director, CITRIS Policy Lab, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC BerkeleySean O’Connor, Threat Intelligence ResearcherMarc Rogers, Director of Cybersecurity, OktaAviel D. Rubin, Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University John E. Savage, An Wang Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, Brown UniversityBruce Schneier, Cyber Project Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy SchoolAlex Stamos, Director, Stanford Internet Observatory Barbara Simons, IBM Research (retired)Philip B. Stark, Associate Dean, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of California, BerkeleyCamille Stewart, Cyber Fellow, Harvard Belfer CenterMegan Stifel, Executive Director, Americas; and Director, Craig Newmark Philanthropies Trustworthy Internet and Democracy Program, Global Cyber AllianceSara-Jayne Terp, CEO Bodacea Light ResearchCris Thomas (Space Rogue), Global Strategy Lead, IBM X-Force RedMaurice Turner, Election Security ExpertPoorvi L. Vora, Professor of Computer Science, The George Washington UniversityDan S. Wallach, Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering, Rice Scholar, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice UniversityNate Warfield, Security ResearcherElizabeth Wharton, Chief of Staff, SCYTHE, Inc.Tarah Wheeler, Belfer Center Cyber Fellow, Harvard University Kennedy School, and member EFF Advisory BoardBeau Woods, Founder/CEO of Stratigos Security and Cyber Safety Innovation Fellow at the Atlantic Council.Daniel M. Zimmerman, Principal Researcher, Galois and Principled Computer Scientist, Free &amp; Fair(Updated November 18 to add&nbsp;news of Chris Krebs being fired, and to add six signers)&nbsp;Share ItU.S. democracy is at an inflection point, and how we administer and verify our elections is more important than ever. From hanging chads to glitchy touchscreens to partisan disinformation, too many Americans worry that their votes won’t count and that election results aren’t trustworthy. It’s crucial that citizens have well-justified...Atlanta, Georgia—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Free Speech for People (FSPF) a federal appeals court today to hold that a group of Georgia voters and the organization that supports them have standing to sue the Georgia Secretary of State over the implementation of defective voting systems they...San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined more than three dozen cybersecurity experts and professional security organizations in for the White House to keep politics out of securing this month’s election. Election security officials and computer security experts must be able to tell the truth...Everyone wants an election that is secure and reliable. With technology in the mix, making sure that the technology supports this is critical. EFF has blindly adopting technologies that can be easily manipulated or fail without having systems in place to test, secure, and catch problems, including...is a well-known figure in the Argentinian infosec community. As a security researcher, he’s worked to in electronic voting in Argentina, despite the country’s local and federal attempts to move ahead with insecure software and electoral procedures.The Argentinian authorities have a reputation of...Foreign adversaries and domestic dirty tricksters can secretly hack our nation’s electronic voting systems. That’s why information security experts agree we must go back to basics: paper ballots. We also need “risk-limiting audits,” meaning mandatory post-election review of a sample of the paper ballots, to ensure the election-night “official” results...Sen. Ron Wyden’s to protect the integrity of U.S. elections, the Protecting American Votes and Elections (PAVE) of 2019, takes a much needed step forward by requiring a return to paper ballots.The bill forcefully addresses a grave threat to American democracy—outdated election technologies used in...UPDATE February 9 2019: Victory! These bills did not make it out of committee.Experts agree: Internet voting would be an information security disaster. Unfortunately, the Commonwealth of Virginia is considering a of to experiment with online voting. Pilot programs will do nothing to contradict the...The ability to vote for local, state, and federal representatives is the cornerstone of democracy in America. With mid-term congressional elections looming in early November, many voices have raised concerns that the voting infrastructure used by states across the Union might be suspect, unreliable, or potentially vulnerable to attacks. As...Right now, the U.S. Senate is debating an issue that’s critical to our democratic future: secure elections. Hacking attacks were used to try to undermine the 2016 U.S. election, and in recent years, elections in Latin America and Ukraine were also subject to cyber attacks.It only makes sense to harden...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAn Open Letter on Election SecurityWilliam T. Adler, Senior Technologist, Elections &amp; Democracy, Center for Democracy &amp; TechnologyMatt Blaze, McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law, Georgetown UniversityJeff Bleich, U.S. Ambassador to Australia (ret.)Jake Braun, Executive Director, University of Chicago Harris Cyber Policy InitiativeGraham Brookie, Director and Managing Editor, Digital Forensic Research Lab, The Atlantic CouncilEmerson T. Brooking, Resident Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab of the...

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