Mike Kiniry

FUSION | Dana DeBeauvoir, a spirited 62-year-old who has overseen the election process in Travis County, Texas, since 1986, has been fending off complaints about voting for decades. In recent years, most of those complaints have been about the reliability of electronic voting machines.

DEFENCE ONE | Voting machine vulnerabilities go well beyond what most voters know, warns Dan Zimmerman, a computer scientist who specializes in election information technology. There probably is not time to fix all of those vulnerabilities by November. But there are still things election officials could do to reduce the hack-ability of the U.S. presidential election.

POLITICO | The federal government wants to help states keep hackers from manipulating the November election, amid growing fears that the U.S. political system is vulnerable. But Georgia’s top election official is balking at the offers of assistance — and accusing the Obama administration of using exaggerated warnings of cyberthreats to intrude on states’ authority.

PRWEB | Free & Fair today announced the availability of Qubie, an open source wireless device that measures wait times and delays at U.S. polling places on election day by analyzing smartphone signals. Qubie is a free tool that U.S. state and local jurisdictions can leverage for the 2016 Presidential Election to improve the voter experience and polling place efficiency.

TECHCRUNCH | With an incredibly important national election coming up, it’s more critical than ever that everyone who can vote does — and is able to. Election tech firm Free and Fair is hoping to help avoid overflowing voting locations with a simple, open source device that automatically monitors waiting times and keeps voters and officials informed.

POLITICO | The furor over the cyberattacks injecting turmoil into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign obscures a more pervasive danger to the U.S. political process: Much of it has only lax security against hackers, with few if any federal cops on the beat.

PC WORLD | As the U.S. heads toward an especially contentious national election in November, 15 states are still clinging to outdated electronic voting machines that don't support paper printouts used to audit their internal vote counts. E-voting machines without attached printers are still being used in a handful of presidential swing states, leading some voting security advocates to worry about the potential of a hacked election.

THE DAILY DOT | It's easy to get excited about internet voting. Social media, Skype, online banking — these types of tools and services have expanded our voices, connected us the world over, and added convenience and efficiency to our lives. Who wouldn't want to see elections benefit from these kinds of advances?

GOVTECH | Electronic voting machines revolutionized the democratic process — until we started to notice all the vulnerabilities, that is, and the fact that they age like any other technology. What at first looked like a farewell to millions of paper ballots turned into a nail-biting nightmare as reports of operational flaws and machines at the end of their effective lives took headlines.

GCN | Although the obstacles to online voting are legion, that hasn’t stopped technology entrepreneurs from trying to invent a better ballot. A new company, Free & Fair, is offering a suite of products to make elections more verifiable, transparent and secure.