A man holds a ballot card with bar codes during a voting machine demonstration in Raleigh, N.C., last month. Allen G. Breed/AP hide caption
2020 Election: Secure Your Vote Election security coverage from NPR.
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2020 Election: Secure Your Vote
The headquarters of the military intelligence agency GRU in Moscow. The FBI and other U.S. agencies want to stop more interference like that launched from here against the U.S. in 2016. Pavel Golovkin/AP hide caption
With Next Goal To Secure 2020 Elections, Feds Seek To Absorb Lessons From 2016
The U.S. has spent hundreds of millions of dollars since 2016 to make election practices at every level of government more secure. Mark Ralston /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Facebook confirmed that it met with other tech companies and U.S. national security officials to discuss aligning efforts to safeguard the 2020 presidential election. Paul Sakuma/AP hide caption
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station set up at Grady High School for the mid-term elections last November in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia is set to replace all of its voting machines, which cybersecurity experts had deemed insecure, before the 2020 elections. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images hide caption
Cyber Experts Warn Of Vulnerabilities Facing 2020 Election Machines
Attendees in Bucks County, Pa. test-drove new voting machines at an event aimed at helping the county decide which equipment to buy. Security is a major focus in the 2020 presidential race. Pam Fessler/NPR hide caption
States Upgrade Election Equipment — Wary Of 'A Race Without A Finish Line'
"Deepfakes" are digitally altered images that make incidents appear real when they are not. Such altered files could have broad implications for politics. Marcus Marritt for NPR hide caption
Foreign interference continues to threaten U.S. elections in many forms, including the active spreading of disinformation. Marcus Marritt for NPR hide caption
Much of the fleet of electronic voting machines in the United States was designed without security in mind, in response to the last big national flap over an election in 2000. Marcus Marritt for NPR hide caption