State employee e-mails are subject to Freedom of Information requests made by the public under Virginia’s open-government laws … which also allow the costs of providing records to be passed along to the requester. But the e-mails have become so voluminous and cluttered that costs to retrieve them have skyrocketed. And as Virginia Public Radio’s Anne Marie Morgan reports, the Freedom of Information Advisory Council is concerned that steep charges could have a chilling effect.
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From NPR News- Learning 2016's Lessons, Virginia Prepares Election Cyberdefenses September 26, 2017One of the most drastic steps was a decision to adopt all new paper-backed voting machines before November after deciding that the paperless electronic equipment was vulnerable to attack.
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- Learning 2016's Lessons, Virginia Prepares Election Cyberdefenses September 26, 2017
- From BBC News
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