Air gapping voting machines isn't enough, says one election security expert
The safeguards that election officials say protect voting machines from being hacked are not as effective as advertised, a leading election security expert says.
U.S. elections, including national ones, are run by state and local offices. While that decentralization could serve an argument that elections are difficult to hack, University of Michigan Professor J. Alex Halderman says that it’s more like a double-edged sword.
Speaking to an audience of students and faculty at the University of Maryland’s engineering school, Halderman said that the U.S. is unique in how elections are localized. States and counties choose the technology used to run federal elections.
