Election Vendors. Cybersecurity. Anatomy of a Hack and 3 Contracting Takeaways.

North Carolina’s electronic voting system in 2016 was hacked. The way hackers got in was through the company that provided the poll book- the electronic data that allows voting personnel to verify voters.

What changes we will we see to election procurement:

• contracts will contain and require higher data security standards
• vendors may be audited for data security purposes
• election workers will be equiped to switch to paper ballots, if during voting, it is discovered that election data is compromised

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