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Lawmakers turn to hackers at Defcon to get election security

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Geekz Snow
Lawmakers turn to hackers at Defcon to get election security

For two years in a row, hackers at Defcon have demonstrated that voting machines currently being used in US elections had serious security issues.

Now with the 2020 US presidential election quickly approaching, lawmakers who want to fix those vulnerabilities are heading to the hacking conference in Las Vegas to see them in person.

While there's no evidence that any votes were tampered with during the 2016 election, hackers have shown plenty of proof that the voting machines being used are vulnerable to attacks.

Lawmakers like Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, have proposed legislation to improve election security to make sure these vulnerabilities wouldn't affect future voters.

"White hat hackers do an invaluable public service in this technologic age by identifying security holes and, if necessary, shaming the government or the companies responsible into fixing them," Wyden said in a statement.

This comes after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned Congress last month that Russia would continue its efforts to hack US elections, telling lawmakers, "They're doing it as we sit here."

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