Cybersecurity
Trump Cyber Official Warns Voting Machines Need Paper Trails
- Five states currently don’t produce paper records of votes
- Testifies to House committee on 2020 election security
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A top Trump administration cybersecurity official warned that voting machines must produce paper receipts to protect against hacking in the 2020 election, demonstrating wariness of a decades-long trend toward electronic voting amid efforts by Russia and China to influence U.S. elections.
“If you don’t know what’s happening and you can’t check back across the system what’s happening in the system, then you don’t really have security,” Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said in testimony to the House Committee on Homeland Security. The ability to audit voting and voter registration is “the greatest area of need,” he said.