Cybersecurity experts: Requesting ballots by email is safe

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A group of leading cybersecurity experts told an Ohio court that absentee ballot applications can be safely transmitted using email. That counters Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s strident assertions that the practice would open up voting in the presidential battleground to outside interference. In a filing late Monday, eight experts in computer information and engineering from MIT, Georgetown, Princeton and other universities joined voting rights gr