Blockchain technology can address some weaknesses in voting systems, but not all of them – and it opens new potential vulnerabilities, too.
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Protecting democracy requires more than just technical solutions. It includes education, critical thinking and members of society working together to agree on problems and find solutions.
Ensuring the integrity of democratic elections from hackers and electronic tampering, and boosting public confidence in democracy, isn’t very difficult, nor expensive.
As millions in federal dollars flow to states to protect elections, what should the money help pay for?
The best way to protect elections is to plan and prepare for an audit of the results after the votes are cast.
There are good reasons to be concerned about the procedures used for voter registration in many countries, including many long-established democracies.
Though there is no indication hackers affected the outcome of the election, we still must act to improve the cybersecurity of American elections.
Decade-old computer equipment underpins the country’s most important civic process. What happens when it breaks down?
Top contributors
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Deputy Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Iowa
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Electoral Integrity Project, University of Sydney
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Voting Rights Researcher, Democracy Project, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University
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Director of Strategy, Global Security Initiative, Arizona State University