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SEDALIA, CO – JUNE 28: Mesa County Clerk and Colorado Republican candidate for secretary of state Tina Peters reacts to early election returns during a primary night watch party at the Wide Open Saloon on June 28, 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado. Peters lost to former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson, who will move on to face Democratic incumbent Jena Griswold. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

Trump calls on Colorado to release election-denying clerk from jail

The state’s AG vowed to defend the prosecution of Tina Peters, an election clerk behind one of the most serious breaches of voting systems in U.S. history.

May 6, 2025 By Derek B. Johnson

Judge tosses citizenship provisions in Trump elections order

Requests to block federal agencies from sharing federal data with states and to condition federal election funding were denied by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.

Apr 24, 2025 By Derek B. Johnson

Stickers sit on a table at a polling location on November 8, 2022 in Atlanta, United States. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)

Cyberattack hits Georgia county at center of voting software breach

State officials in Georgia have severed Coffee County’s access to statewide election systems while the breach is being addressed.

Apr 26, 2024 By Derek B. Johnson AJ Vicens

Local resident Cierra Johnson (L) and her daughter Reniya Weekes (2nd L) hold signs to encourage people to vote early outside a polling station on November 29, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. A nonprofit suing the Coffee County Board of Elections claim the board withheld emails and security camera footage relevant to a 2021 breach of voting machine software and other election systems. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Georgia election officials withheld evidence in voting machine breach, group alleges

A filing accuses county election officials of withholding records related to unauthorized copying of voting software by Trump allies in 2021.

Feb 22, 2024 By Derek B. Johnson

Online voting provider paid for academic research in attempt to sway U.S. lawmakers

Democracy Live directed academic research aimed at demonstrating its product's security and used that material in lobbying campaigns.

Mar 29, 2023 By Yael Grauer

A voter casts a ballot at a voting machine at a polling station at Cheyenne High School on Election Day on November 8, 2016 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

First major voting vendor, Hart InterCivic, partners with Microsoft on ambitious software security tool ElectionGuard

The ElectionGuard announcement comes as Republicans are still mounting challenges to the 2020 election.

Jun 3, 2021 By Tim Starks

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 09: (L-R) Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice Liz Howard, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center Matt Blaze, endowed professor and chair of the University of Florida Juan Gilbert, president of the North Carolina NAACP T. Anthony Spearman, Commissioner of Election Assistance Commission Don Palmer, and county clerk and recorder of Christian County, Illinois, Michael Gianasi are sworn in during a hearing before the House Administration Committee January 9, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on “2020 Election Security-Perspectives from Voting System Vendors and Experts.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Election Assistance Commission loses another key staffer, Jerome Lovato

Two other top staffers have left the EAC in recent months as well.

Feb 24, 2021 By Tim Starks Sean Lyngaas

Color image of some people voting in some polling booths at a voting station. Getty Images

Federal election agency adopts updated voting security standards. Not everyone is happy.

Even as most considered the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) 2.0 an upgrade, there were complaints about its provisions on wireless connectivity.

Feb 10, 2021 By Tim Starks Sean Lyngaas

paper ballot, election, vote by mail, voting — Paper ballots for a 2020 election. (MultCo Communications / Flickr)

As voters cast their ballots, courts nationwide issue election security edicts

The court fights over the long weekend stretched from California to Pennsylvania.

Oct 13, 2020 By Tim Starks

Election, voting, polling, foreign interference — (KOMUnews / Flickr)

Feds, states unveil pilot program meant to secure voter databases and other election systems

The aim is to close a gap in security testing for the broad set of election infrastructure outside of voting machines.

Jun 17, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas