Less than five months from the presidential election, state officials are busy preparing for the voting process. According to one survey, a vast majority have increased security since 2020, hoping to ensure results can be trusted.Â
The Pentagon is reaching out to higher education for help, enlisting research teams from two Maryland universities. Their task: a three-year risk assessment focused specifically on the vulnerabilities of voting machines.Â
“We are looking at all the things that could possibly go wrong. Those could be an actor trying to disrupt something, maybe…trying to break a machine or trying to back vote for somebody who’s dead, or things like that. But they could also be honest mistakes,” Dr. Natalie Scala of Towson University told CBN News.Â
Scala, the co-director of the Empowering Secure Elections Lab at Towson, says this is the perfect assignment for academia, rather than government officials to tackle. Â
“For academics, we look at it based purely on data,” Scala explained. “So we don’t necessarily have a favorite candidate. We don’t necessarily have an agenda to push. We just want that vote to stay the way it is, from the moment somebody casts it to the moment we count it, we want
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