The Virginia State Board of Elections moved Friday to do away with touchscreen voting machines in the state by November’s election, a move aimed at boosting security.
The board decided to phase out the machines this year after the Virginia Department of Elections recommended that the touchscreen voting machines be decertified. The recommendation came after security experts breached numerous types of voting machines with ease at the DEF CON cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas in July, according to The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The move comes amid heightened concerns over foreign interference in future elections, in light of the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia used cyberattacks and disinformation to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Yes, yes, yes!
This is EXACTLY what needs to happen all over this country in order to regain our voting integrity.
We have known since 2000, that these voting machines can be hacked and it is WAY past time that we shit can them and go back to paper ballots.
The Russians will be back, and dammit we need to be ready.
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