With less than 2 weeks until Iowans line up to cast the first votes to pick a Democratic presidential nominee, party officials are reassuring voters that a new app used to report its caucus votes is secure. It’s not clear if they are correct.
Troy Price, Iowa Democratic Party chairman, said at a press briefing this month that the app is just one part of how the state’s vote is tracked, along with paper backups, a phone hotline and other, unspecified safeguards.
The situation highlights how every level of the U.S. election process has come under far more scrutiny since the intelligence community determined Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 election,Democratic Party officials say they have systems in place to detect and prevent intrusions, but declined to provide details over whether the app had been subjected to open-ended vulnerability testing. They also declined to disclose which company developed the app.
Heightened scrutiny around voting security has also been met with more resources and expertise devoted to preventing election interference.Harvard University’s Defending Digital Democracy Project Those groups, along with officials from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the app’s developers, also participated together in election threat simulations.
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