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06:30am EDT| This Venezuela Voting Machine Company Wants To Take Over America – If It Can Get Through Fox News Share to Facebook ILLUSTRATION BY FORBES; PHOTOS BY John Lamparski/Getty Images; Smartmatic Fifteen years ago, Smartmatic was drummed out of the United States by Lou Dobbs—but now hes off the air and the voting machine company is attempting an American foothold once more. In the wake of last year’s presidential election, as Donald Trump was pushing his counterfactual nar...

In nine states, some jurisdictions have allowed voting via computer or app.

Security experts understand the desire of entrepreneurs and election officials to use new voting methods to reach voters who may be disenfranchised by in-person or mail-in voting, but the security risk might be too great, they say.

Leaders of the federal agency overseeing election administration have quietly weakened a key element of proposed security standards for voting systems, raising concern among voting-integrity experts that many such systems will remain vulnerable to hacking.

They say leadership of a commission tweaked a draft to remove language that stakeholders interpreted as banning wireless modems and chips from voting machines as a condition for federal certification.

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Activists complain of weakened voting security standard Election integrity activists and computer security experts are complaining that leaders of federal agency that oversees voting technology have quietly weakened a key element of standards due for a vote next week designed to improve security By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer February 6, 2021, 12:51 AM • 5 min read The Associated Press FILE - In this Oct. ...

Audit in Michigan County Refutes Dominion Conspiracy Theory Quick Take A hand count of paper ballots in Antrim County, Michigan, has verified the election results there, refuting a “forensics report” promoted by President Donald Trump that baselessly claimed the election equipment in the county was “designed” to create “systemic fraud and influence election results.” Experts said the faulty report showed a misunderstanding of voting system technology. Full Story A Dec. 17 audit of b...