Editor's Note: The author is the deputy
director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at
the New York University School of Law.
In the last two weeks, there have been credible reports that Russia is attempting to influence our elections by hacking
into the Democratic Party's email server and other campaign files.
These reports are troubling. But an attack on our country's voting
machines, once deemed far-fetched, is even more disturbing.
In response, the Obama administration is
considering designating America's electronic voting system as "critical
infrastructure," which would likely bring more federal resources to
protecting these systems from attack.
But with just three months before the
presidential election, what can be done? In truth, making big changes to
election machinery before this November isn't realistic. There isn't
enough time. Fortunately, security experts and activists have worked for
several years to shore up election integrity, and there is much we can
do to secure the technology currently in place.
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