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A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
This year’s Intelligence Authorization Act would mandate penetration testing for federally certified voting machines and allow independent researchers to work on exposing vulnerabilities.
“This legislation will empower our researchers to think the way our adversaries do and expose hidden vulnerabilities by attempting to penetrate our systems with the same tools and methods used by bad actors,” says Warner, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. The new push for these programs highlights the fact that, even as election security concerns have shifted to more visceral dangers like death threats against county clerks, polling-place violence, and AI-fueled disinformation, lawmakers also remain worried about the possibility of hackers infiltrating voting systems, which are considered critical infrastructure but are lightly regulated compared to other vital industries. By allowing a diverse group of experts to hunt for bugs in a wide range of election systems, the Warner-Collins bill could dramatically expand scrutiny of the machine of US democracy.
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