Russian government agents allegedly penetrated US state and county election databases. Scholars of election security offer insight and recommendations about what to do now.
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Researchers reveal the ways the US election system is under threat – only one of which has anything to do with Russia.
Have you ever struggled to understand exactly what to do inside a voting booth?
African democracies are embracing electronic voting far more confidently than the West.
Election results almost always come with conspiracy theories attached, but India's latest round of recriminations goes deeper than usual.
While voter fraud - despite recent allegations - is rare, how do we ensure the ballots we cast are counted accurately? If so, how? Our experts offer background and insight.
The issues of foreign donations and electronic voting will be examined by a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry.
It's true that sophisticated hackers may be able to tilt the presidential election. But the more likely threat to democracy comes from sore losers who sow doubt about voting integrity.
With the DNC email leak and Trump calling on Russia to hack Clinton's emails, concern about foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election process is rising. Is e-voting the next cyber battleground?
The new Senate vote capture system had to be built rapidly, with little time for design or testing, and is being operated in a way that allows only part of the process to be scrutinised.
There's something about seeing the ballot process take place – the vote, the count – that inspires confidence. That wouldn't be the same with any electronic voting system.
More than 280,000 votes were cast online at the NSW election, which has been claimed as a new world record. The state's early vote also looks set to hit a new high, mirroring a trend across Australia.
UPDATED 3PM: The NSW Electoral Commission has now publicly commented on the security flaw we uncovered. But we're concerned that it does not seem to understand the serious implications of this attack.
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Director, University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society; Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer, Cybersecurity & Internet Researcher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor in Computer Security, Cybercrime, and Cyberterror, UNSW
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Lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Professor of Psychology and of Computer Science, Rice University
