Welcome to Axis ProRata, a podcast that takes just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech business and politics.

Sponsored by AT&T, I'm Dan Premack.

On today's show, how a big Las Vegas casino plans to bring sports betting to your phone

and the secret Democratic Party plan to regulate big tech companies like

Facebook. But first, hacking the next election. We're just 99 days away from the midterms,

and a lot of the Sunday show conversation yesterday was about election security. In fact,

a lot of the Sunday show conversation since November 2016 has been about election security,

you know, whether that be fake news on Facebook or those recent indictments of 12 Russian

intelligence officers who, among other things, allegedly stole information on around half a million

U.S. voters. Now, the big question here is, could we also be 99 days away from real

devastating electoral interference, not just influencing your vote,

but actually maybe changing your vote after you've left the school gym or church basement,

or maybe making it look like you voted when you didn't. Now, this used to kind of be just tinfoil

hat stuff, but as more and more voting systems use at least some technology exposed to the

internet, it's become a real serious

concern for cybersecurity experts.

For example, last year, a group of hackers showed that some voting machines could be

wirelessly accessed in just 90 minutes.

And that doesn't even address potential vulnerabilities at where the voting machines and

their parts are manufactured, or where they make the servers that keep the voter roll databases, or all those devices that store and tabulate the vote totals. And that last one,

that can even be relevant in polling places like mine, where we still use pencils and paper ballots.

The bottom line is that the core of America's democracy isn't just its Bill of Rights.

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