In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, election security quickly became one of the hottest political and cybersecurity research topics. The growing unease that foreign and other adversaries might meddle in our digital voting infrastructure gave way to a growing chorus among some experts to disband digital voting technology altogether and revert to paper ballots.
Six top-tier information security experts issued an alarming report about what they had discovered when they took apart voting machines at DEF CON’s Voting Village last year.