Jennifer Cohn

Is the Election Safe from Hacking?

The vulnerabilities are real. But so are the things citizens can do to help safeguard their votes.

How New Voting Machines Could Hack Our Democracy

We have a longstanding habit in the United States of adopting voting technology systems for use in the polling place without any real studies of how well they work. We only learn about their failings after the machines are deployed and widely used.

Voting Machines: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The potential vulnerability of voting machines is critical because the entire system of our democracy depends on public trust—the belief that, however divided the country is, the result has integrity. Nothing is more insidious and corrosive than the idea that the tally of votes itself could be unreliable and exposed to fraud.