Identity Management: How a Platform Approach Can Help Safeguard ElectionsIdentity has long been a core concern among state and local officials charged with ensuring safe, secure and accurate voting. Are voters who they say they are? Are poll workers who access voting systems adequately and appropriately credentialed? Secretaries of state and their staffs aren’t the only ones worried about identity issues as the nation rolls toward a presidential election. An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that about 41 percent of Americans surveyed do not think the country is prepared to protect the election system from attack. In a 2020 survey by Okta and Juniper Research, opponents of mail-in voting cited security as their number one concern. While there are many safeguards in place to

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