As recently as 2014, people could use WiFi to connect to voting machines inside certain voting places in the state of Virginia. They simply had to be nearby. Once connected, they could interfere with ballots. That major problem in election security has been fixed. Virginia stopped using those machines last year. But election cybersecurity is getting a closer look. Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that the election in November may be rigged. And, a politically sensitive hacking of the Democratic National Committee computer system increased public concern about election cybersecurity. Security experts say the risks are real. But, the probability of attacks on voting cybersystems is hard to estimate.
