Analysis: Democratic base fired up by effort to ban Internet-connected voting machines
And all this high-level focus on election security has helped produce grass roots public interest — on both the right and the left — in pushing for the 2020 contest to be as secure as possible, Susan Greenhalgh, policy director for the National Election Defense Coalition, another group pushing the Internet ban, told me.
The number of people who’d submitted comments through the group’s main Web tool surged from about 1,000 a few days before the Daily Kos email on Friday to more than 30,000 a few days after, Aquene Freechild, co-director of Public Citizen’s Democracy is for People Campaign, one of the organizing groups, told me. The EAC's comment period closed Wednesday.
Security experts worry that hackers could disrupt that process by interrupting wireless signals, delaying election reports and lowering the public’s confidence in them. Hackers might also crack into the connections when election offices are testing them, implanting malware to disrupt or alter vote totals, they say.
And even though the new EAC guidelines will be voluntary, they’re likely to spur other states to follow New York and Colorado’s lead, she said. PINGED: Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III closed his one and only news conference Wednesday by restating a central conclusion of his office’s investigation: “That there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election,”Democrats in Congress were quick to oblige with a fresh push for election security bills — and attacks on Republicans who are blocking them.
Other Democrats used the Mueller moment to call for a renewed focus on election security but were less partisan in their calls.
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