WASHINGTON — Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn’t be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said, thanks to decentralized systems, paper records for nearly all ballots, exhaustive reviews, legal due process and decades…
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child’s life against the Russian weapons within striking distance. Most rain death in an instant: the drones, the ballistic missiles, the glide bombs, the artillery shells. But Russian soldiers control another weapon they have never deployed, with the…
DENVER — Voting system passwords were mistakenly put on the Colorado Secretary of State’s website before being spotted and taken down, but the lapse did not pose an immediate threat to the upcoming election, said state election officials Tuesday. The passwords were one of two that are needed to access Colorado’s voting systems, and are…
