SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Minnehaha County Auditor Bob Litz attended a unique convention in Las Vegas this month to learn the latest on election and voting security.
The county uses paper ballots, but technology is still involved in counting them.
"Technology, even though we have paper ballots, technology is always going to be part of everyone's election process, whether they like it or not."
At the so-called Hacking Village at the DEFCON Convention, hackers break into voting machines to show how the bad guys do it. Election officials see first hand the potential vulnerabilities and the procedures for mitigating them.
Litz believes that he is doing pretty much all he can do at the local level for voting security, that it's more the responsibility of the Secretary of State's Office and the companies that make voting machines and election software.
He does have concerns about the hacking vulnerability of voter data kept by the State of South Dakota.
"You know, if they were able to get into the voter rolls and remove names or switch names around, or switch parties around, you could create a lot of havoc."
Litz will be briefing the Minnehaha County Commission on what he learned at DEFCON.