The 2020 presidential election was rife with allegations of voting machine hacks that were later debunked. Yet there are real risks that hackers could tunnel into voting equipment and other election infrastructure to try to undermine Tuesday’s vote.
“Account security is especially important in an election — it would be disastrous for candidates to turn into sock puppets,” said Eddie Perez, a board member at the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan election technology nonprofit. Perez was formerly a director of product management at Twitter overseeing a team that handledStates have spent years upgrading the security of their voter registration databases, which form the bedrock of a well-functioning election system.
Hackers with access to a voter registration system could sow chaos in two ways. By tampering with voter data, they could make it more difficult or time-consuming for poll workers to check in voters at polling places. And by stealing voter data, hackers could engage in targeted harassment. Many states do, however, print out paper copies of voter rolls and distribute them to local officials, creating a backup source of information that they can use to check in voters if the electronic database fails or becomes unreliable.Targeted voter harassment
This relatively novel threat represents an evolution in how foreign governments use hacking campaigns to meddle in U.S. elections. After stealing voter records from a state election database in 2020, Iranian operatives if they didn’t vote to reelect then-President Donald Trump. The messages, which contained false allegations of vulnerabilities in election technology, were designed to look like they came from the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group.
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