Even though the technology may be impressive, regular Democracy Chronicles readers might be sceptical of any new technology inserted into election systems. Using voting machines in any way is questionable in regard to security and can have a negative impact in voter confidence in election outcomes. Paper ballots are just more secure by nature and all computers have vulnerabilities. WSOC-TV, virtual channel 9 in an article by Joe Bruno, adds to these concerns. Take a look:

The North Carolina State Board of Elections is asking a voting software company if it was hacked by Russian cyber attackers in 2016.

The NCSBE wants to know if VR Systems is “Vendor 1” in the Mueller report. The report indicates that Russian intelligence successfully “installed malware on the company network.” The letter from NCSBE asks VR Systems for “immediate, written assurance regarding the security” of its network.

“What we use it for on is the back end so that we can record provisional ballots, transfers, that sort of stuff that allows us to do it uniformly through 195 different precincts,” Mecklenburg County Board of Election Director Michael Dickerson said.

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