{"674185":{"#nid":"674185","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Safe and Secure Elections Require Interdisciplinary Collaboration","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs nearly half of the world\u2019s voting population heads to the polls this year, technology\u2019s impact on elections will be front and center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a complex issue that is, unfortunately, awash in misunderstanding and misinformation. What\u2019s more, according to Richard DeMillo, professor and founder of the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) at Georgia Tech, there is a tendency in technology fields to hyperfocus on technical problems at the expense of complex social realities. \u201cThere are famous mathematicians who trained their students to not worry about the real world,\u201d DeMillo says. \u201cBut the real world has a way of intruding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a new dean at Georgia Tech in the early 2000s, DeMillo saw voting technology burst into national headlines after the highly contested presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Congress authorized billions of dollars for states to purchase voting machines, with little to no oversight, and Georgia\u2019s secretary of state was one of the biggest spenders of these federal funds in an attempt to create what DeMillo remembers as \u201can unambiguously unbiased way of voting.\u201d DeMillo and his cybersecurity colleagues at Georgia Tech put this idea to the test. \u201cIt didn\u2019t take much to hack a voting machine in 2002,\u201d he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeMillo has since developed the Safe and Secure Elections research group, an interdisciplinary team from computer science, systems engineering, cognitive science, and international affairs that works on election security in the U.S. and abroad.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pitcases.org\/portfolio\/pit-in-practice-georgia-tech\/\u0022\u003ERead more about Georgia Tech\u0027s support of this public interest technology (PIT) \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs nearly half of the world\u2019s voting population heads to the polls this year, technology\u2019s impact on elections will be front and center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As nearly half of the world\u2019s voting population heads to the polls this year, technology\u2019s impact on elections will be front and center. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-04-15 18:19:28","changed_gmt":"2024-04-15 18:20:11","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673709":{"id":"673709","type":"image","title":"Voting","body":null,"created":"1713204933","gmt_created":"2024-04-15 18:15:33","changed":"1713204961","gmt_changed":"2024-04-15 18:16:01","alt":"Voting","file":{"fid":"257138","name":"iStock-1203196311 copy-smaller.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/15\/iStock-1203196311%20copy-smaller.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/15\/iStock-1203196311%20copy-smaller.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1324563,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/15\/iStock-1203196311%20copy-smaller.jpg?itok=YN6iox4f"}}},"media_ids":["673709"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}