Joel Reidenberg was quoted in USA Today about the security of the voting system in the United States and related lawsuits over election hacking.
The idea that someone might hack into or otherwise access election equipment in order to sway the outcome of an election has always been hypothetical, something academics and civil libertarians discussed but not something that the general public, or courts, particularly worried about. That’s now changed and this case signals a shift in attitude, said Joel Reidenberg, a law professor and expert on election law at Fordham University.
“In the light of the news we’ve seen in the past few months of the Russian attempt to hack our election, courts are going to be a little more sympathetic to concerns over the security over our voting mechanism. In the past it’s been hypothetical — now we have some real life examples,” he said.