Friday, July 12, 2024: 7:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): Fake news or flawless? Our computerized elections are neither. To truly understand corporate, closed-source election computers requires understanding of how they fit into the wider electoral system and its interlocking parts. Douglas' investigative journalism will provide case studies documenting how it can go haywire: the 2016 Kremlin cyberattacks on U.S. election infrastructure exposed by whistleblower Reality Winner, the MAGA-led Coffee County elections office breach still compromising Georgia's statewide voting software, and more. Such details will show how you can help secure elections: scrutineers, statistical forensics, free software voting companies... the list goes on. He will address democracy's evolution, too, scrutinizing statist voting within the bigger picture of human collaboration.

Douglas Lucas