Why US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-attacks
by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles from on (#3WPXN)
Officials have been slow to update machines and secure data - and the political climate could hurt voter confidence
Sixteen months ago, Marilyn Marks was just another political junkie watching a high-profile congressional election on her laptop when she saw something she found abnormal and alarming.
The date was 18 April 2017, and the election was in Georgia's sixth congressional district, where the Democrats were hoping to pull off an upset victory against a crowded Republican field in the wake of Tom Price's (short-lived) elevation to the Trump cabinet as health and human services secretary.
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