Dougherty Valley basketball player Keira Tom is the Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week for Jan. 12-17. In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Tom finished with 52.4% of the vote, topping American basketball player Shirina Shi (36.4%). Congratulations to all the candidates for this week's recognition. Tom, a senior, had a prolific night for DV in a win over Livermore, scoring 31 points to go along with two assists, two steals and two rebounds.
Severe flaws in logistics and technology threatened the integrity of the online vote in Ontario's 2022 municipal elections, a major new study suggests and points to vulnerabilities across voting systems supplied by different vendors that left 70 per cent of races at "high or extreme risk" of compromise. The research was conducted by a group of academics from Brock, Carleton and Western universities, all of which specialize in computer engineering, cryptography and political science.