footnote5_410zssi 5 Edgardo Cortés, et al., “Preparing for Cyberattacks and Technical Problems During the Pandemic.” Provisional balloting materials can be used when electronic pollbook issues - or a cyberattack on the registration database - prevents poll workers from knowing whether voters are eligible or whether their absentee ballots have been received and accepted for counting. If voting machines are malfunctioning or inoperable, poll workers can provide voters with emergency backup paper ballots to hand-mark until the machines can be fixed. footnote4_xzdpdya 4 Edgardo Cortés, et al., “Preparing for Cyberattacks and Technical Problems During the Pandemic: A Guide for Election Officials,” Brennan Center for Justice, June 5, 2020. įortunately, there’s a simple solution to let voting continue in the face of inevitable technical difficulties: an ample supply of backup paper supplies. Sanger, “Ransomware Attacks Take on New Urgency Ahead of Ahead of Vote,” New York Times, September 27, 2020. Elections,” Microsoft, September 10, 2020, Nicole Perlroth and David E. footnote3_p0lo87d 3 Tom Burt, “New Cyberattacks Targeting U.S. Moreover, the risk of a cyberattack against election infrastructure remains a concern, with local governments and election vendors having been subject to ransomware attacks over the past year. footnote2_obd7myz 2 Jonathan Diaz, “Why You Should Be a Pollworker this Year,” CNN, September 1, 2020. County Primary Voting Was Plagued with Technology Flaws,” Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2020, –06–17/l-a-county-primary-voting-was-plagued-with-technology-flaws Fadel Allassan, “Judge Orders Georgia to have Paper Backups of Pollbooks on Election Day,” Axios, last updated September 28, 2020, –45d7–97ab-62f459d3b629.html.Īs new poll workers start across the country, difficulty learning how to troubleshoot and operate voting technology will likely persist in November. footnote1_pgwqzia 1 Mark Niesse and Alan Judd, “Election Fiasco Reveals Flaws with Georgia’s New Voting System," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 14, 2020, -regional-govt-politics/election-fiasco-reveals-flaws-with-georgia-new-voting-system/FoZjtLGPYccOrHzXHiPbDL/ Jaclyn Cosgrove, John Myers, and Matt Stiles, “L.A. State officials and the vendor blamed “human error” and poor training, but machine troubles in Georgia, and elsewhere, are nothing new, as a federal judge just noted in a court order mandating effective backup for the technology problems. Across the state, there were problems with electronic pollbooks, access cards to start up touchscreen voting machines, and the touchscreen machines themselves. In June, Georgia conducted a primary election now infamous for long lines. Attend the Brennan Legacy Awards Dinner.Advance Constitutional Change Show / hide.National Task Force on Democracy Reform & the Rule of Law.
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