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Groups Push Lawmakers for Hearings on Voting Machine Security

Voting rights and election security groups on Monday urged two House and Senate committees to hold hearings on the security of voting machines.

The groups, which include the National Election Defense Coalition, Electronic Privacy Information Center, R Street Institute and Public Citizen, asked the House Administration Committee and the Senate Rules and Administration Committee in a letter to schedule election security hearings that include testimony from voting machine vendors and election security experts.

“The security of our nation’s elections is acutely dependent on the vendors that supply our computerized voting systems,” the groups wrote. “The voting system vendors have operated with little oversight and no regulation for decades.”

Read more at The Hill

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