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Efficient In-person voting observed by URI VOTES research team

November 30, 2020 sarah JonasFeature

The 2020 election is all but complete, but a team of researchers at the University of Rhode Island is still crunching the numbers – not the number of votes, but the statistics used to determine the efficiency of in-person voting in Rhode Island, Nebraska and Los Angeles.

Cyber-security, mind-hacking and the presidential election

October 22, 2020 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Ning Zhang, assistant professor of engineering The U.S. presidential election is only weeks away. Hackers are hard at work. What exactly are they doing?We often think of hacking as a shadow form of computer engineering – a matter of ones and zeros, of clever coding and hijacked hardware, of software vulnerabilities and brute force attacks.

MITRE Experts Available to Comment on Election Security

October 5, 2020 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Voters trust that our elections take place without interference. MITRE supports state and local election officials with the objective advice and tools to combat threats to our voting infrastructure. Our work includes: Our SQUINT™ app lets election officials report disinformation…