Unsettling reading as Presidents' Day approaches
State and county officials have been urged to use paper ballots wherever possible over electronic ones, and ensure all election offices have procedures in place to handle potentially lethal substances, specifically fentanyl, anthrax, and ricin.
"It could be leveraged against constituents, consumers, even officials, but we don't necessarily anticipate it being leveraged to target electoral systems," Alvarez toldtrolls to push election-related fake news on social networks — we are very adept at doing this all on our own, thank you. But on Friday the US, UK and Canadian governments pledged to combat foreign"information manipulation" that aims to"undermine our democracies and human rights globally.
But in addition to disinformation, election administrators also need to worry about how completed ballots are returned to state and county offices, and whether or not they have proper training and equipment in case miscreants mail toxic substances to their facilities.Because some voters can't cast their ballots in person or by postal mail, many states in the US offer email, fax, or web-based apps to facilitate remote voting.
These risky e-returns should be limited to voters who can't return their ballot by any other means, the agencies advise, citing"significant security risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of voted ballots" that are returned in this manner.
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