Despite Planned Upgrade, New Jersey Voting Machines Remain 'Primitive and Hackable' for 2018 Midterms

Governing: With less than three weeks to midterm elections in which New Jersey is a congressional battleground, election-security experts warned that the state's voting machines remain vulnerable to hacking.

The state is moving ahead with plans to replace its 11,000 voting machines with devices that create paper ballots that voters verify and that can be manually counted in the event of irregularities. However, those new machines won't be in place on election day Nov. 6, and probably not during the 2020 presidential election, members of an Assembly committee were told.

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