by Mary Rooke
Hackers from the annual DEF Con conference, “Voting Village,” found glaring securities issues with voting machines used in U.S. elections. Still, despite the findings, nothing will be fixed for the Nov. 5 election.
Scott Algeier, executive director of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and others spoke to Politico after the event about the “multiple pages” of vulnerabilities the hackers found when they attempted to break into and why these issues won’t be fixed before the next election.
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That process involves getting the voting machine manufacturers to agree to make the changes, which is an uphill battle. Then, if the companies agree with the updates, each state’s election agency has to agree with the new system, which means fighting the bureaucratic system designed to make this challenging to do quickly. But even if both hurdles are accomplished in record time, every machine needs to be manually updated.
“Even if you find a vulnerability next week in a piece of modern equipment that’s deployed in the field, there’s a challenge in getting the patch and getting the fix out to the state and local elections officials and onto the equipment before the November election,” Algeier said. “It’s not a 90-day fix. It’s not a Microsoft every Tuesday; issue your patch, and everything works fine. It’s a pretty complicated process.”
The system is flawed, and the event organizers have been “frustrated” about the lack of changes. Voting Village co-founder Harri Hursti told the outlet despite hackers finding “multiple pages” of integrity issues this year and in years past with the voting machines, he’s “angry” that nothing has been done about them.
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“There’s so much basic stuff that should be happening and is not happening, so yes, I’m worried about things not being fixed, but they haven’t been fixed for a long time, and I’m also angry about it,” Hursti said.
Americans have been worried about election integrity leading up to the 2024 presidential race, so much so that the Republican National Committee has created a unit devoted to combating any shenanigans that could arise. However, it’s hard to take elections seriously in a country that relies on easily hacked machines. The organizers will not specify what issues they found until the report comes out next month. With this in mind, how should Americans feel secure in their voting system?
The Politico piece essentially admits that voters have no recourse. It’s also meant to demoralize. If these machines have clear vulnerabilities, and nothing can be done to fix them before the most consequential election in U.S. history, you might as well save energy and stay home. But that couldn’t be farther from what needs to happen.
I have read about Voting Machines that switched Republican Vote to the Democrats and a Democrat Worker was Caught with a Voting Machine in their Car
Ilhan Omar just pulled off a voter fraud “win.”
Last night as ballots from every part of the state were coming in her vote count stayed a ZERO for a super long time.
Then it bumped up to 97% counted and, what do you know, she won, by a lot.
Her machine includes her own brothers, who intimidate Muslim voters, and this time add South Carolina’s 6th congressional district’s Jim Clyburn’s visits to key areas in Omar’s district.
Stinks to high heaven.
But what can you do?
It’s not a bug… it’s a feature.