VOTING: “Election administrators in Virginia ordered the state’s remaining touch-screen electronic voting machines be taken out of service in advance of the coming statewide election, after hackers demonstrated vulnerabilities in an array of election technology at a recent security convention.
Virginia, one of two states holding statewide elections for governor and state legislature this year, won’t use any touch-screen machines in the Nov. 7 general election after the State Board of Elections voted Friday to revoke the certifications on all such systems still being used in the state.
Virginia will switch to paper ballots counted and processed by computerized scanners.
James Alcorn, chair of the board, said in a statement the move was ‘necessary to ensure the integrity of Virginia’s elections.’
The decision by Virginia to end the use of all touch-screen voting technology, known as direct recording electronic voting machines, is part of a renewed focus on election security and integrity after U.S. intelligence agencies publicly accused Russia of interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to boost Donald Trump at the expense of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.”
-Byron Tau, “Virginia Ends Use of Touch-Screen Voting Machines,” The Wall Street Journal online, Sept. 11, 2017 06:05pm