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National push to bolster security of key election technology

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY are used instead of paper
Associated Press rolls to check in voters at
ATLANTA (AP) — An effort polling places. The non-
to create a national test- profit Center for Internet Se-
ing program for technol- curity hopes to provide the
ogy central to U.S elections nation’s first uniform testing
will be launched later this program for the technol-
year, aiming to strengthen ogy, similar to one for vot-
the security of equipment ing machines. Its goal is to
that has been targeted by start the voluntary service
foreign governments and in September as a way to
provided fertile ground for help boost the security and
conspiracy theories. So far, reliability of the technol-
states have been left on ogy before the 2024 presi-
their own to evaluate the dential election.In 2020, 15
technology that provides states, including Arizona,
the backbone of election Florida and Nevada, did
operations: voter registra- not require any type of
tion databases, websites electronic pollbook testing
used to report unofficial re- or certification, according Electronic poll book kit that voters will use to sign in at polling locations at the Albany County
sults on election night and to federal data. Board of Elections building, Oct. 14, 2020, in Albany, N.Y.
electronic pollbooks, which Continued on Page 2 Associated Press