Looks like the do-nothing senate is back to work after the distraction of impeachment... and leaving America's elections exposed to foreign intervention. Senate GOP blocks three election security bills https://thehill.com/homenews/house/482569-senate-gop-blocks-three-election-security-bills
Need to take election security seriously. Voatz has been surrounded by controversy ever since West Virginia used it in a pilot program to allow military and overseas voters to cast ballots via their phone. The software has also been used in pilot projects in federal elections in Denver and parts of Oregon, Utah and Washington State. West Virginia recently announced plans to expand its use of Voatz to disabled voters in this year’s presidential elections. ... He said that the company’s other defenses are the same that voting machine makers like Diebold Election Systems and Election Systems and Software have made over the years any time researchers found security problems with their systems. “[They always say] it’s not realistic [research], or it was an older version [of software]. But the vulnerabilities discovered in Diebold and ES&S systems have all “turned out to be significant problems and it’s well recognized that [those] voting systems aren’t safe,” he said. “And I think we’re seeing the same kind of dynamic playing out here.”
