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Exclusive: Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials
The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet. But researchers found 35 of the systems have been connected to the internet for months and possibly years, including in some swing states.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/3kxzk9/exclusive-critical-us-election-systems-have-been-left-exposed-online-despite-official-denials
But a group of election security experts have found what they believe to be nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states connected to the internet over the last year, including some in critical swing states. These include systems in nine Wisconsin counties, in four Michigan counties, and in seven Florida countiesall states that are perennial battlegrounds in presidential elections.
Some of the systems have been online for a year and possibly longer. Some of them disappeared from the internet after the researchers notified an information-sharing group for election officials last year. But at least 19 of the systems, including one in Floridas Miami-Dade County, were still connected to the internet this week, the researchers told Motherboard.
The researchers and Motherboard have been able to verify that at least some of the systems in Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Florida are in fact election systems. The rest are still unconfirmed, but the fact that some of them appeared to quickly drop offline after the researchers reported them suggests their findings are on the mark.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Link to tweet
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@ericgeller
Today, we're launching a major project that I've been working on for the past five months.
It's a page that tracks every state and county using paperless voting machines, including whether they plan to upgrade and where they are in that process.https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/election-security-americas-voting-machines/
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)dalton99a
(81,486 posts)pecosbob
(7,538 posts)Where in use, type of system, results vs exit polls, etc. I expect one could find interesting information there.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)pecosbob
(7,538 posts)like we see with Ag-gag laws or prohibitions against tracking gun sales.
RussBLib
(9,008 posts)As long as they are the beneficiaries. Just one more piece of evidence that the GOP only cares about itself.
triron
(22,003 posts)triron
(22,003 posts)DFW
(54,378 posts)In 2004, it came down to Ohio deciding if Bush had been re-"elected" or if it was President Kerry. The Republican Secretary of State of Ohio was also the chairman of the Bush campaign for Ohio. One maker of the electronic voting machines said he would "deliver Ohio for Bush." And then they went to court to get their machines declared as "private property," with the practical effect being that they (basically ESS and Diebold) would declare the "results" of the votes cast on their machines, but no one but they themselves were allowed to verify those results.
However, in one rural precinct, a small one with just 600 registered voters, the electronic voting machine's hard drive WAS examined before its owner/manufacturer could come collect it. It had given Bush 3000 votes in this precinct with 600 voters. So what happened? Well, Ohio DID shave 2400 votes from Bush's margin of "victory" in Ohio (thus handing him the election). They did NOT permit any of the other machines to be examined, claiming that ONLY the one machine examined had a "glitch." The others couldn't possibly, nooo.....
So, when several tech specialists (including my brother, who does high tech stuff for DARPA) say they can hack into the voting machines, I tend to believe them.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,345 posts)A voter cannot verify his or her vote with electronics involved. The public cannot verify the count with electronics involved.
Paper allows a verifiable ballot and a verifiable election.