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How Vulnerable Are Electronic Voting Machines?

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson takes a look at security issues with the machines ahead of November's midterms with the president of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan nonprofit.
Electronic voting machines in a polling station in Dublin, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 2018. (John Minchillo/AP)

A federal judge ruled this week that Georgia does not have to replace its electronic voting machines with machines that create paper records before the election in November. In her ruling, though, the judge noted she’s “gravely concerned” about Georgia’s slow pace in addressing electronic voting vulnerabilities.

Here &‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with , president of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for accurate and verifiable elections, about those vulnerabilities and how secure electronic voting machines are.

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