CANONSBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania congressional race between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone remains too close to call,
with local elections officials still counting absentee ballots late Tuesday.
According to this story,
local election officials in New York are finding that many more write - in votes are being cast, now that the state has finally stopped using mechanical voting machines.
According to the document, Russian military intelligence launched an attack on at least one US voting - software supplier and sent so - called spear - phishing emails to at least 100
local election officials shortly before the election.
In some places, the discrepancies between the official count and the Reuters tally were small, with
local election officials putting it down to the margin of error.
The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100
local election officials days before the presidential election last November.
Minnesota's Supreme Court has approved a request by the campaigns of incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken to extend the
deadline local election officials and the two campaigns have to finish sorting through improperly rejected absentee ballots to January 2, from the previous deadline of 31.
EARLY VOTING: Cuomo and Democrats want New York to join the majority of states in allowing early voting but Republicans question
whether local election officials can afford the change.
Facebook plans to host state and
local election officials at its D.C. office later this year to discuss the information sharing organization, and launch the organization in early 2018.
They should be extra vigilant as Election Day nears to issue directives and educate the public and
local election officials on how voters who lost their home can maintain their right to vote.»
The National Security Agency report said Russian military intelligence executed a cyber-attack on at least one U.S. supplier of voting software and sent deceptive emails to more than 100
local election officials in the days leading up to the election last November — a sign that Moscow's hacking may have penetrated further into voting systems than previously known.
Warner asked Kelly «to work closely with state and
local election officials to disclose publicly which states were targeted, to ensure that they are fully aware of the threat, and to make certain that their cyber defenses are able to neutralize this danger.
Justice Arthur Diamond found Pidot had more than the 1,250 signatures needed to qualify for the ballot, but state and
local election officials have maintained there is not enough time logistically meet the requirements of a federal court order that has mandated the June 28 congressional primary to protect military balloting.
The majority of stakeholders are state and
local elections officials — those who stand to directly benefit from the results of our work.
«I'm hearing from (
local election officials) and others that this would be very, very expensive,» he said.
Local elections officials had identified approximately 1,350 ballots that may have been rejected in error.
The court ruled earlier this month that both campaigns and
local election officials must agree on the ballots that were improperly rejected before the canvassing board can open and count them.
Schneiderman says his office fielded hundreds of complaints from voters and worked with
local election officials to quickly address issues.
Local election officials will take the most recent absentee vote received at the county offices.
«We've had some excellent discussion with state and
local election officials.»
«Our goal is to build an information sharing organization that includes political parties, campaigns, state and
local election officials, and tech companies,» Stamos told Gizmodo.