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In an era when hackers can humble businesses, it's a reasonable question: Could our votes be at risk? The answer, experts say, can be boiled down to campaign-speak: There is work to be done, but we're better off now than we were four years ago.

Online registration systems have dramatically boosted voter sign-ups in the dozen states that allow citizens to register to vote over the Internet. Colorado has logged more than 79,000 voter registrations since Sept. 1 — and more than 300,000 since introducing online sign-ups in 2010. In the two years prior to going online, the state logged roughly 90,000 registrations.