{"id":1411,"date":"2016-11-01T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:44","slug":"election-audits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/election-audits\/","title":{"rendered":"Election audits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LegsSince hackers targeted the election systems of more than 20 states, cyber security experts say Michigan should routinely audit a sample of its paper ballots<\/a> to protect against election fraud. The Michigan Secretary of State\u2019s office said the state\u2019s voter registration lists have not been targeted or affected. \u201c[Audits] should be done routinely in order to provide a strong degree of confidence,\u201d said U-M cyber security expert Alex Halderman<\/strong>. \u201cThat\u2019s an opportunity for Michigan to improve its election procedures. You should audit every election.\u201d On November 1, Professor Halderman will be part of a Dissonance event titled “Disrupting Democracy: How Technology is Influencing Elections<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since hackers targeted the election systems of more than 20 states, cyber security experts say Michigan should routinely audit a sample of its paper ballots to protect against election fraud. The Michigan Secretary of State\u2019s office said the state\u2019s voter registration lists have not been targeted or affected. \u201c[Audits] should be done routinely in order to provide a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-election"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",240,180,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits-150x113.jpg",150,113,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits-187x140.jpg",187,140,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",240,180,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",240,180,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",240,180,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",240,180,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",56,42,false],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",240,180,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",240,180,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-election-audits.jpg",240,180,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Since hackers targeted the election systems of more than 20 states, cyber security experts say Michigan should routinely audit a sample of its paper ballots to protect against election fraud. The Michigan Secretary of State\u2019s office said the state\u2019s voter registration lists have not been targeted or affected. \u201c[Audits] should be done routinely in order…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}