| The US may be headed for the most contentious election in history, one beset by misinformation, voter suppression, the specter of cyberattack, and a lethal pandemic, among other threats. So for the October issue of WIRED, we went out to find the people doing the most to make elections hacker-proof, suppression-proof, conspiracy-proof, and Covid-proof—from the officials managing the tight choreography of every mail-in ballot’s journey to get counted, to the Texas county clerk who’s banded together with the nation’s best cryptologists to break voting technology out of the stone age, to the nomadic cybersecurity expert who is crisscrossing the country drafting hackers into battling misinformation like it’s malware. We also took a look at a group of former Facebook employees who helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016 and now, four years later, are working to bring him down. What we found was, sure, pretty sobering. But it also led us to think that, if only we make it through these next six weeks, our democracy could come out stronger than ever. |
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