Online attackers may be able to purchase — for as little as a few thousand dollars — enough personal information to potentially alter
voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new Harvard study.
Companies may also encourage registration for a particular party,
distribute voter registration information advocating for or against specific candidates, prepare and distribute voter guides that advocate for a particular candidate, and finance voter mobilization, such as voter identification activities, some legal experts say.
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false voter registration information, Fraud in connection with casting vote, Voting fraudulent ballot, respectively).
Dubbed «voter identity theft» by study authors Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology in Residence, research analyst Ji Su Yoo and graduate student Jinyan Zang, the vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to attempt to disenfranchise many voters
where voter registration information can be changed online.
Automatically registering eligible voters encourages civic participation, and provides a vehicle for state agencies to efficiently
transfer voter registration information to the Board of Elections.
New York is among the of states rebuffing efforts by President Donald Trump's administration to gain access to
voter registration information, all part of a stated effort to root out fraud.
Lilly says that
his voter registration information makes him eligible to run because he is enrolled in the district he represents.
The new system is available now to help people register for the first time, and allow people who have moved since the last general election to update
their voter registration information.
Your voter registration information includes your congressional district.
For the second time in two months,
the voter registration information of over 19 million Californians was leaked online via an unsecured MongoDB database, which was later held for ransom by hackers.