New Voting Machine Purchases Should Be VVSG 2.0 Certified

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Summary: All the voting machines that counties and states bought before 2025 complied with standards (e.g., VVSG 1.0 or 1.1) that were extremely weak on cybersecurity, and indeed most of those voting systems were easy to hack (make them cheat in elections) and their back-end databases were easy to alter (to change vote totals). Now there are strong Federal standards for voting machines (VVSG 2.0), and there are some new voting machines that comply with those standards. There’s real evidence that...

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