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The practices, technologies and policies that protect voting systems, election offices and voter data from tampering, breaches and disinformation.
Max Springer of Princeton used a $20 AI subscription and a Georgia public-records request to recover the voting order of 1.52m ballots. A flaw found years ago now takes hours to exploit, and Georgia's answer is an order to redact ballot IDs from public files.
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CISA's 2026 election security plan names outdated certification rules as one of three problems in how election system flaws get fixed. The attack path it describes starts at a compromised office inbox or workstation and moves laterally into those systems.
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A classified assessment completed last year found that no foreign adversary successfully interfered in 2024, and that Russia, Iran and China each ran influence campaigns anyway. Congressional sources say the probing of election systems has not stopped.
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The package Gavin Newsom signed also extends mail-ballot drop-off hours and creates penalties for undisclosed paid political posts. The provision that reaches private parties in California is the disclosure one.
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The group says it took documents, server configurations, passwords and staff communications from Russia's Central Election Commission and the contractors building Vybory, and Important Stories says it authenticated the files.
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Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence faults the implementation calendar and allows that the final USPS regulation may be lawful. The rule the Postal Service already finalized stays available for a cycle with more lead time.
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Princeton's Max Springer says a publicly available AI assistant unshuffled Georgia's May primary ballot records and then told him which public files it needed to attach names to them. The flaw was documented in 2022.
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A registrar who was censured this month for threatening staff says he will make a convicted election-systems thief his deputy. The controls that would stop it are personnel controls.
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