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Quiz: Voting With Confidence

March 1, 2020

How easy is it to crack a voting machine? Which city is piloting mobile phone voting? Take the quiz to find out.

The annual DEF CON security conference hosts a “Voting Village” where benevolent hackers try to gain access to a variety of different voting machines. At last year’s event, hackers managed to infiltrate what percentage of machines?
- 25 percent
- 50 percent
- 75 percent
- 100 percent
Which law did Congress pass in response to the chaotic recount of the 2000 presidential election?
- Help America Vote Act
- National Voter Registration Act
- Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
- Voting Rights Act
The Elections Clause in Article I of the U.S. Constitution gives states complete control over congressional elections.
- True
- False
The Democratic presidential caucus in which state recently fell into chaos when the app voters used to record their ballots failed?
- Hawaii
- Iowa
- New Hampshire
- Nevada
The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) requires that election officials do their best to ensure that _______________ are able to vote and that their ballots are counted.
- Active members of the military
- Commissioned corps members of the Public Health Service
- U.S. citizens residing abroad
- All of the above
The result of Lyndon Johnson’s 1948 Senate race in Texas was allegedly rigged in his favor.
- True
- False
Which metropolitan area recently became the first in the country to announce that it would allow all voters to cast ballots via smartphone in an upcoming local election?
- Atlanta
- Cleveland
- Seattle
- Dallas
According to a January poll, ___ percent of Americans do not think the U.S. is prepared to keep this November’s elections safe and secure.
- 21
- 31
- 41
- 51
A $10 million project through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (better known as DARPA) produced a new voting machine that aims to set a higher standard for secure voting hardware. To test the machine, the company that created it has:
- Published its code online so researchers can comb it for vulnerabilities
- Given away free samples to pilot in small local races in select states
- Offered a monetary reward to anyone who can hack into the machine
- Submitted its hardware and software to the Department of Homeland Security for analysis
In 2016, jurisdictions in __ states used voting machines that were at least ten years old.
- 14
- 24
- 34
- 44

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