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Here are the big election security measures in the House Democrats’ massive new bill

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A giant bill House Democrats proposed on Friday includes a number of measures aimed at improving election security and voter confidence. The measures in H.R. 1 draw on provisions from several bills that were proposed but failed since the 2016 election, which experts and officials concluded was targeted by a Russian-led influence operation. Key features include a requirement that federal elections be conducted with paper ballots that can be counted by hand or optical scanners, new grants that states and municipalities can use to improve and upgrade equipment, an incident reporting requirement for election system vendors and a number of other measures meant to keep election systems’ security up-to-date. Election security experts have criticized paperless voting machines because of their vulnerability to tampering with little recourse, since they produce no auditable paper trail of each vote. Such machines were used to some extent in more than a dozen states in […]

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Democrats’ massive House bill to include election security measures

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House Democrats will include proposed cybersecurity measures in a massive bill due to be unveiled Friday as Congress begins a new session. The bill, H.R. 1, includes an array of legislation, such as a plan to force all presidential nominees to disclose their tax returns, new campaign finance rules and changes to sexual harassment law. Cybersecurity also is a major component, as reports indicate H.R. 1 will repurpose much of the language from the Elections Security Act, proposed last year by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. H.R. 1, known as the “For the People Act,” also would require states to replace paperless voting systems, create grants to help states audit their election results, and force election system vendors to report data breaches, according to the Brennan Center. Last year’s version of the bill designated $1.7 billion for states to secure their voting technology and would have required the White House to […]

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