The Midterm Elections Could Be Hacked and We Won't Know Until It's Too Late

There's plenty of talk about voting machines. How aboutvoter-registration systems? 

By Jack Holmes Nov 5, 2018

Millions of Ohioans will flock to the polls on Tuesday. They will wait in line, shuffle to the front, and give their name. Most of them will cast a ballot and carry on with their day. But thousands of others will be told they’re not on the list. They might think they’ve gone to the wrong polling place. If they haven’t voted in a while, they may assume they’ve been purged from the rolls. According to Ohio Voter Project, a nonprofit that collects and shares data about voting in the state, between five and ten thousand Ohioans are removed from the rolls every week.

Maybe they don’t know much about the laws around voting, and don’t know they can ask for a provisional ballot. And anyway, they have to return to work or pick up their kid from school. They’ve already been here a while, and they can’t afford to spend any more of their day at a polling station. Maybe they leave without casting a ballot.