Jack Reed Archives

Online voting provider paid for academic research in attempt to sway U.S. lawmakers

Democracy Live directed academic research aimed at demonstrating its product's security and used that material in lobbying campaigns.

Mar 29, 2023 By Yael Grauer

election security — Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Election Day in November, 2018. (Lorie Shaull / Flickr)

Voting-machine vendors have some serious questions to answer, senators say

Senators, including Amy Klobuchar, say every machine made by election technology companies should reliably produce paper records.

Mar 27, 2019 By Joe Warminsky

Clapper, shown here at an event in September, said it wasn’t the intelligence community’s place to comment on whether attempting to sway an election amounts to an act of war. (LBJ Library / Flickr)

Spy agencies: We can’t judge impact of hacking on election

"They did not change any vote tallies or anything of that sort," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee…

Jan 5, 2017