Modernizing Election Technology

Posted: November 6th, 2016

By Rachel DeLevie-Orey

Rachel DeLevie-Orey is an Associate Director with the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. Her work focuses on US-Cuban relations, Mexican reform, and the role of technology in elections. She has been a key player in campaigns to advocate the normalization of relations between the US and Cuba, and strengthen US-Mexico ties. Work on these issues included publishing op-eds, offering political commentary to news outlets, and briefing government entities. Previously, Rachel worked at Grunwald Communications, a political advertising firm, and served as a Penn Kemble Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy.

With elections around the corner and ongoing fears of Russian interference and vulnerabilities in electronic election systems, The Cipher Brief sat down with Rachel DeLevie-Orey of the Atlantic Council to discuss the current state of the U.S. election system and why election technology—when correctly implemented—is so important for actually creating more secure elections than before.

The Cipher Brief: What is the current level of technical sophistication of U.S. election technology? Are there aspects of it that are entirely digital?

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