Breach of voting system software connected to GOP efforts to challenge the results of the election

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Experts warn of dangers from breach of voter system software
ATLANTA (AP) — Republican efforts questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race have led to voting system breaches that election security experts say pose a heightened risk to future electi...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Republican efforts questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential race have led to voting system breaches that election security experts say pose a heightened risk to future elections.

Copies of the Dominion Voting Systems software used to manage elections — from designing ballots to configuring voting machines and tallying results — were distributed at an event this month in South Dakota organized by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, an ally of former President Donald Trump who has made unsubstantiated claims about last year’s election.

“It’s a game-changer in that the environment we have talked about existing now is a reality,” said Matt Masterson, a former top election security official in the Trump administration. “We told election officials, essentially, that you should assume this information is already out there. Now we know it is, and we don’t know what they are going to do with it.”

The software copies came from voting equipment in Mesa County, Colorado, and Antrim County, Michigan, where Trump allies had sue unsuccessfully challenging the results from last fall.

The Dominion software is used in some 30 states, including counties in California, Georgia and Michigan.

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[bearsfootball516]

1. Counties are going to have to spend millions of dollars on new voting equipment.

And throw away hundreds of perfectly good voting machines that are now contaminated.

[Sogo]

2. I have long suspected

that those "fraudits" are cover for them gaining access in just this way, for the purpose of rigging the next election.

[CrispyQ]

3. Agreed.

And why is it always Dominion systems that they target? There are other electronic voting systems.

The whole thing stinks & needs more than a strongly worded letter from the DOJ, sent months ago.

[dawg]

6. Only Dominion has the ghost of Hugo Chavez and the Italian satellites. /s

[haele]

9. Because ES&S machines and codes are already out there and being hacked on the state/local areas for

Look at 2020 elections -ES&S was used in Kentucky, Maine, South Carolina. Texas, Florida... GOP states, where despite poling and larger turnouts in the cities, the GOP candidate won by just enough not to trigger a recount.
ES&S is run by GOP hackers, and the founder had famously promised in 2004 to deliver Florida to Bush.
Dominion is non-partisan. The GOP doesn't want Dominion election systems in swing states, because they can't win unless they can cheat.

Haele

[pandr32]

4. +1

[crickets]

8. That was the real goal all along.

The propaganda push and manipulation of the RW public was just sweet, sweet gravy.

[sdfernando]

5. 100% paper ballots NOW!

No reason we have to know the results of an election the same day!

[moondust]

7. Likely to get worse.

Considering a cyberattack shut down a major pipeline earlier this year as well as the rise of ransomware, some hackers appear to be getting better at it. It's probably inevitable that a "political party" willing to take extreme antidemocratic measures to gerrymander, try to actually overturn an election, enact Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise voters and even overturn future elections will eventually end up trying to rig voting machines. If they haven't already.