Keynote: Jury-Rigging Democracy: The Crazy, Sad Saga of Election Security in the U.S.

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Presented at FirstConferenceKualaLumpur 2018 by

Kim Zetter

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002 in the wake of the Florida hanging chad debacle, it flung $3.9 billion at states to upgrade their antiquated election technology along with a deadline in which to spend it. States went on a frenzied buying spree, taking voting machine vendors at their word that new electronic voting machines would solve all of their election woes. But instead of solving the nation's election problems, the machines created a host of new ones -- including providing an easy way for someone to rig elections without detection. Kim Zetter, who has been writing about the voting machine issue for 15 years -- for WIRED, Politico and the New York Times -- will take us through the mad history of election security over the last decade and explain how it set the nation on course for the Russian election hacking scare we face today.