Experts in the News

Dan Wallach, a Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar, has sounded the alarm on insecure voting equipment for years. Wallach and a clerk in Travis County may have spurred real innovation in voting technology.

"There will be new challenges to mitigate the risks of voting fraud, but those challenges are secondary to the primary importance of voting itself," wrote Baker Institute Faculty Scholar Dan Wallach in support of expanding vote-by-mail systems in Texas.

"We can and must still expect a full spectrum of cyber operations from foreign adversaries," wrote Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar Dan Wallach. "Good threat intelligence is essential to defending yourself from the inevitable attacks to come."

“We want to kick the tires really hard on VotingWorks’ vote by mail system to make sure we find any problems well before November,” said Baker Institute faculty scholar Dan Wallach about the work he and others are doing to improve open-source technology for voting by mail.

To make internet voting viable, time is needed to develop the technology and end-to-end encryption. “Will we be in a different world 10 years from now? Almost certainly,” said Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar Dan Wallach. “But ... we’re nowhere near ready for this today.”