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By SecureWorld News Team
Thu | Jun 20, 2019 | 12:45 PM PDT

The largest election equipment manufacturer in the United States finally admitted that it needs a paper trail.

This is a major change in how voting vendors have talked about cybersecurity in elections. 

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CNN covered the story:

"It's a meaningful step for the election systems industry compared to where we were two years ago, when 'just trust us' and 'hackers will be sued' seemed to be the industry's public position on election security," said Maurice Turner, a senior technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology.

Election Systems & Software made the decision to stop selling paperless machines late last summer.

But the company did not immediately publicize the change and around the same time got into a public fight with researchers at the DEF CON hacker conference, who spent several days finding vulnerabilities in Election Systems & Software machines.

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