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Steve Friess

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Steve Friess is a former technology and politics senior writer for POLITICO whose freelance work appears regularly in Time, Buzzfeed, New York, Al Jazeera America and many more. He is based in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Alaska Elections Division Director Gail Fenumiai looks over a write-in ballot  Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, in Juneau, Alaska.  (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Hackers Could Decide Who Controls Congress Thanks to Alaska's Terrible Internet Ballots

Steve Friess

- Nov. 3, 2014

Alaska’s first-in-the-nation internet voting system is a security nightmare that threatens to put control of the U.S. Congress in the hands of hackers, according to internet security experts, including the former top cybersecurity official for the Department of Homeland Security.

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