[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/14/20

Fri Feb 14 08:09:05 PST 2020

“Volunteers and campaigns worry about results reporting ahead of Nevada caucuses”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109553>
Posted on February 14, 2020 7:57 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109553> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN<https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/14/politics/nevada-caucuses-calculator/index.html>:

With the Nevada Democratic caucuses<https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/state/nevada> only a week away, both caucus workers and presidential campaigns are worried about the lack of detail the state party is providing about how the results reporting process will work.

The worries come after the state party stopped working with Shadow Inc.<https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/politics/iowa-caucus-app-issues/index.html>, the company behind the app whose “coding errors” were at the heart of the chaos of the Iowa caucuses.Having scrapped plans to use a pair of Shadow’s apps, the parties will instead use a “caucus calculator,” as outlined in a new memo released by the Nevada State Democratic Party Thursday.

Described as “user friendly,” the calculator will be used to add early voting data into each precinct and calculate totals on caucus day, February 22, along with paper work sheets. The tool, which the party does not consider an app, will be available on iPads owned by the party and “accessed through a secure Google web form.”
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“Documents reveal DNC was ‘intimately involved’ in development of troubled Iowa caucus app”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109551>
Posted on February 13, 2020 3:11 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109551> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Yahoo News reports.<https://news.yahoo.com/shadow-inc-idp-contract-dnc-documents-224407455.html>
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“Iowa Caucus Meltdown Proved Transparency Is Essential, Election-Watchers Say”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109549>
Posted on February 13, 2020 2:54 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109549> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NPR reports.<https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/804491974/iowa-caucus-meltdown-proved-transparency-is-essential-election-watchers-say>
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“Feds reviewing previously unreported cyber attack on Florida elections office”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109547>
Posted on February 13, 2020 1:49 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109547> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miami Herald<https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article240263301.html>:

Less than five weeks before Florida’s March presidential primary, the Department of Homeland Security is investigating a previously unreported cyber attack<https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200212/exclusive-pbc-elections-office-hit-by-ransomware-before-2016-election> on Palm Beach County’s elections office, according to Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link.

Link, who was appointed last year by the governor<https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-cb-who-is-wendy-link-20190118-story.html> to oversee the county’s beleaguered elections department<https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article224762020.html>, said she contacted the FBI in November after a veteran IT employee told her that the office had been infected by a ransomware virus only a few weeks prior to the 2016 election. The virus was not publicly disclosed in 2016.

Link said the FBI referred her to DHS, which sent a team of a half-dozen employees to her office late last month to do a “deep dive” into her department’s network. She said a report of their findings and recommendations is expected shortly.
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Posted in chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

Watch Archived Video of My Talk about My Election Meltdown Book with Henry Weinstein<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109545>
Posted on February 13, 2020 10:31 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109545> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<https://livestream.com/accounts/867536/events/8936576>.
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Posted in Election Meltdown<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=127>

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