Security experts understand the desire of entrepreneurs and election officials to use new voting methods to reach voters who may be disenfranchised by in-person or mail-in voting, but the security risk might be too great, they say.
Leaders of the federal agency overseeing election administration have quietly weakened a key element of proposed security standards for voting systems, raising concern among voting-integrity experts that many such systems will remain vulnerable to hacking.
They say leadership of a commission tweaked a draft to remove language that stakeholders interpreted as banning wireless modems and chips from voting machines as a condition for federal certification.
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Activists complain of weakened voting security standard
Election integrity activists and computer security experts are complaining that leaders of federal agency that oversees voting technology have quietly weakened a key element of standards due for a vote next week designed to improve security
By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer
February 6, 2021, 12:51 AM
• 5 min read
The Associated Press
FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2020, file photo voters fill out their ballot during early voting at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, which President Donald Trump signed into existence in 2018, is working with other parts of the government to safeguard an election in the middle of a pandemic. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)