The scramble to secure America's voting machines

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Politico


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The scramble to secure America’s voting machines

Paperless voting devices are a gaping weakness in the patchwork U.S. election system, security experts say. But among these 14 states and their counties, efforts to replace these machines are slow and uneven, a POLITICO survey reveals.


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During the 2018 election, all voters in 36 states and D.C. cast ballots on machines that produced some form of paper record.

Even there, though, some machines were more secure than others. Some of these states used only fully paper-based machines, including the hand-marked and machine-scanned paper ballots that security experts consider the gold standard. Other states used a combination of those machines and originally paperless machines that had been upgraded with printers.

These 14 states used paperless machines in 2018.

These states represent the heart of the concern over insecure voting technology — places where at least some people cast ballots in 2018 on devices that produced no paper vote trail. They include Pennsylvania, a swing state that played a crucial role in Donald Trump’s victory.

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1. Which other states used paperless voting machines?

On edit: I read the link, which was disturbing, because some states that replaced "paperless" voting machines, replaced them with a computer generated paper-trail that can be hacked and altered.

For example: Delaware Using paper
STATE-BASED PROCESS | 708K REGISTERED VOTERS
Long one of a handful of states that relied entirely on paperless machines, Delaware was the first of those states to completely migrate to paper-based machines since POLITICO began tracking this process — though its choice was still controversial among security experts. In September, a state task force selected the ExpressVote XL from Election Systems & Software. The system is known as a “ballot-marking device,” a technology that security experts consider problematic because it relies on a computer to generate paper ballots, rather than having the voter mark the ballot directly.

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2. Go to the article; there are detailed maps

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