Even in this unconventional election, a highly conventional fact remains: A handful of swing states stand to decide who the next president will be. Meanwhile, early voting is already underway. And accusations that the system is “rigged” by cheaters seem to gain legitimacy as hacking attempts appear in the headlines: In a nod to Chicago tradition, nineteen dead people reportedly registered to vote in Virginia last week, and over the summer, Russian hackers reportedly accessed voter registrations in Arizona and Illinois.
While Boris and Natasha attempt to meddle in American electoral politics, districts in key states dust off vulnerable touchscreen voting machines. The electronic voting machines’ hackability—unrelated to online registration databases—begs extra vigilance against “bad actors” attempting to swing the vote.
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