In the weeks after the 2000 presidential election, the entire country sat on edge as Florida poll workers painstakingly examined butterfly ballots and hanging chads. Elections officials have become acutely aware of these risks to America’s electoral security, especially after the wake-up call they got in 2016. Hackers work most effectively in the dark, so they love voting machines that produce no paper verification. After dragging its feet for years, Congress in March approved $380 million in grants to states for election security. The rest will be spent on improving voter-registration systems, running vote audits and communicating better with voters around election time.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2018 00:18 UTC