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2 days ago | statescoop.com | Colin Wood

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen on Tuesday announced his latest effort to improve the security of his state’s elections — new security emblems that will be attached to all ballots starting next year. In a press release, Allen said the emblems are invisible to the human eye and can only be detected by specialized equipment provided to election administrators in each of Alabama’s 67 counties. According to his office, it will be the first in the nation to use the technology.

4 days ago | statescoop.com | Colin Wood

Skip to main content State and local governments overseeing populations of at least 50,000 people have 10 months remaining to comply with new accessibility rules, to ensure that people with disabilities of all sorts can find information and use services. And so governments are chipping away at their sprawling online presences: adding alternative text to images on their websites, swapping out low-contrast or hard-to-navigate designs, and perhaps most tedious of all, ensuring that thousands...

5 days ago | statescoop.com | Colin Wood

Reducing costs and improving cybersecurity ranked as the top two concerns of chief technology decision makers in state and local governments, according to survey results published last week by the professional services firm Ernst & Young.

1 week ago | statescoop.com | Keely Quinlan

A group of 23 internet service providers in Texas, backed by the industry group Wireless Internet Service Providers Association, sent a letter to two senators Tuesday with concerns about proposed changes to a widely used stretch of shared spectrum featured in the president’s budget bill. The letter, which was shared with StateScoop, was sent to Sen. John Cornyn and Sen. Ted Cruz, both Republican senators from Texas.

1 week ago | statescoop.com | Jake Williams

On this week’s Priorities Podcast, Chad Marlow, senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, says that the broad use of facial recognition technology by New Orleans police extends even beyond endangering the city’s residents, but invites outside actors to take advantage of its surveillance environment.