Massive voter registration database found to have major security flaws
For several years, a nationwide voter-fraud prevention coalition has been using poor security methods in sending and storing millions of voter registration records, according to an advocacy group’s examination of official emails pertaining to the program. Officials running the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program have been using email to send state election officials usernames, passwords and decryption codes for databases containing records of all voters in about 30 states, reports Indivisible Chicago, a nonprofit progressive advocacy group. The states participating in Crosscheck — which originated in the office of Kansas’ secretary of state more than a decade ago — use the program to cross-reference voter registration records and determine whether individuals are registered in multiple states. Indivisible Chicago, which has been leading a campaign to end Crosscheck, found that the voter records shared by the program are hosted on an insecure server and that login credentials are sent in plain text in emails to […]
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