The Nevada Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy is a panel aimed at boosting civic engagement across the state.
Carson City, Aug.29.– Sometimes, fancy new voting machines and layers upon layers of encryption aren’t enough to fend of cybersecurity threats to American elections.
Sometimes, people are the problem
“People can often be the weakest link when it comes to security,” Wayne Thorley, Nevada’s deputy secretary of state over elections, said Wednesday during a presentation on election security to the Nevada Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy, a panel aimed at boosting civic engagement across the state.
The issue of human error is one that Clark and Washoe counties found out firsthand during the June 12 primary election.
In Clark County, 43 people were allowed to vote twice in the primary mostly because of volunteer poll workers not knowing how to properly handle technical hiccups that occurred.
In Washoe County, there were reports of candidates being left off the ballots completely ...
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