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The results of the 2019 Defcon Voting Village are in—and they paint an ugly picture for voting machine security. Learn more in an interesting Wired article:

In three short years, theDefcon Voting Villagehas gone from a radical hacking project to a stalwart that surfaces voting machine security issues. This afternoon, its organizers released findings from this year's event—including urgent vulnerabilities from a decade ago that still plague voting machines currently in use.

Voting Village participants have confirmed the persistence of these flaws in previous years as well, along with a raft of new ones. But that makes their continued presence this year all the more alarming, underscoring how slow progress on replacing or repairing vulnerable machines remains.

Participants vetted dozens of voting machines at Defcon this year, including a prototype modelbuilt on secure, verified hardwarethrough a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. Today's report highlights detailed vulnerability findings related to six models of voting machines, most of which are currently in use. That includes the ES&S AutoMARK, used in 28 states in 2018, and Premier/Diebold AccuVote-OS, used in 26 states that same year.

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