NewsPronto

 
The Times


.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

4 ways to defend democracy and protect every voter's ballot

  • Written by Douglas W. Jones, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Iowa
How confident should voters be that their ballots will be counted accurately?AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

As voters prepare to cast their ballots in the November midterm elections, it’s clear that U.S. voting is under electronic attack. Russian government hackers probed some states’ computer systems in the runup to the 2016 presidential...

Read more: 4 ways to defend democracy and protect every voter's ballot

More Articles ...

  1. Politicians, lies and election legitimacy – it's an old story
  2. Plagiarists or innovators? The Led Zeppelin paradox endures
  3. 4 charts show Venezuela's worsening migrant crisis
  4. New technique heals wounds with reprogrammed skin cells
  5. Lesson from Brazil: Museums are not forever
  6. Colapso de Nicaragua agrava la crisis migratoria en Centroamérica
  7. Serena Williams' catsuit controversy evokes the battle over women wearing shorts
  8. Drones to track one of the largest dam removals on the Eastern Seaboard
  9. Asking customers to donate when they buy stuff may be good for business
  10. How slot machines work – and why you should think twice before playing them
  11. Campaign season is moving into high gear – your vote may not count as much as you think
  12. UN report documents genocide against Rohingya: What now?
  13. How views on priestly celibacy changed in Christian history
  14. Black student activists face penalty in college admissions
  15. Propaganda-spewing Russian trolls act differently online from regular people
  16. Happy midterms! Here's a rundown of the best political zingers in history
  17. It's too soon to call 3D printing a green technology
  18. Why Trump's wrong about WTO treating US unfairly
  19. Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers. Are they overpaid?
  20. 'Pay-for-luck': Oil and gas execs out-earn their peers
  21. Why plant-based mosquito repellents are so hard to design
  22. Why it's hard for blacks to pull themselves up by bootstraps when it comes to health
  23. Why Putin is an ally for American evangelicals
  24. Why there's so much inconsistency in school shooting data
  25. How will Google's innovation continue beyond its 20th year?
  26. An Interracial Kiss – on Another Planet
  27. TV's first interracial kiss launched a lifelong career in activism
  28. Want to solve the world's problems? Try working together across disciplines
  29. Prisoner strike exposes an age old American reliance on forced labor
  30. Could Andrew Gillum be the next governor of Florida?
  31. Want to live longer? Consider the ethics
  32. Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida's penitentiaries
  33. It's 2018. Do you know where your medical records are?
  34. Text messages to parents can help boost children's reading skills
  35. Google News serves conservatives and liberals similar results, but favors mainstream media
  36. Injecting wastewater underground can cause earthquakes up to 10 kilometers away
  37. Who wants to join a union? A growing number of Americans
  38. Time-restricted eating can overcome the bad effects of faulty genes and unhealthy diet
  39. ¿Puede un cristiano apoyar la pena de muerte?
  40. Cohen plea should focus attention on the failure of the US constitutional system
  41. Meet Haiti's founding father, whose black revolution was too radical for Thomas Jefferson
  42. Math shows how DNA twists, turns and unzips
  43. Anorexia more stubborn to treat than previously believed, analysis shows
  44. Should we scoff at the idea of love at first sight?
  45. What teenagers need to know about cybersecurity
  46. US prisoners' strike is reminder how commonplace inmate labor is – and that it may run afoul of the law
  47. This 19th-century argument over federal support for Christianity still resonates
  48. Cafeteros en Colombia luchan por adaptarse a un clima cambiante
  49. Teaching the public more science likely won't boost support for funding, but sparking their curiosity might
  50. Making college more affordable