Election security is not a technology problem. It is how naive we are
When it comes to election security, the technology we use to vote and count those votes is not the problem. The problem is how naive we are.
Election security has been at the forefront of daily news cycles for more a decade. The concerns about illicit use of technology to input and count the votes turned out to be largely overblown. Every U.S. state other than the Commonwealth of Louisiana, uses paper ballots, matching the practice of every other western democracy. Lawsuits have bankrupted people and organizations claiming the technology was changing votes. Those that have complained the loudest about election interference are now facing prosecution for the crimes.
Now the tech focus is on the use of artificial Intelligence to create deepfake video and audio. A recent pitch from Surfshark,
