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Military, overseas votes raise risk of hacked electionDozens of states set up online voting to make it easier for U.S. citizens abroad to cast ballots, but it also presents would-be election meddlers with a new target.
Tens of thousands of military and overseas Americans casting ballots online this fall face a high risk of being hacked, threatening to cause chaos around Election Day if their votes get manipulated or they transmit viruses to state and local election offices.
More than 30 states — including battlegrounds such as Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada and North Carolina — allow various methods of online voting for citizens living outside the U.S. While state officials insist their ballots will be counted without any serious problems, ample warnings are nonetheless being sounded from the left, right and even inside the federal government that internet votes can’t be securely transmitted in today’s everything-is-hackable environment.

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Among the warnings: Voters may be inadvertently returning a ballot laden with malware, such as spyware, that violates its secrecy and make it susceptible to manipulation in transit. Internet voting also can leave the state and local government networks susceptible to hard-to-detect cyberattacks once election officials in the U.S. open up the ballot via email or click on what looks like a seemingly legitimate document.