Major vulnerabilities were uncovered in voting machines at the nation’s premiere hacking conference, but experts are afraid there isn’t enough time to address them ahead of the election.
The Daily Caller reports:
The DEF CON “Voting Village” hacking event entailed hackers working with a variety of voting machines, attempting to bypass firewalls and other security measures on devices meant for counting ballots and confirming voters’ identities, Politico reported. Many individuals focused on election integrity are concerned that no system to swiftly update security measures exists, according to the outlet.
The organizers plan on publishing an imminent report on the hacker’s findings, according to the outlet. Harri Hursti, co-founder of the Voting Village, reportedly said the detected vulnerabilities took up “multiple pages” by Saturday afternoon. However, the process to address any bugs in the system would likely not finish in time for the November general election, according to the outlet.
The conference takes place annually, and every year, participants uncover troubling risks, and express frustrations about the limited timelines that make it virtually impossible for them to rectify these risks on a national scale in time for an election.
Politico reports:
“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,” said Scott Algeier, executive director of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center. The group serves as a way for companies in the IT space to share threat information.
Algeier, who also runs the organization’s Elections Industry Special Interest Group, said the process involves getting sign off from the machine manufacturer, then getting the system recertified by relevant authorities, then going in and updating each device. This complex series of steps is complicated even more by most election machines behind locked down weeks in advance of the elections.
Voters have expressed escalating concerns about election integrity and security, especially following the 2020 presidential election, where a winner wasn’t declared until four days after the actual election took place, and multiple irregularities were reported in key swing states.
While this has been portrayed as a partisan issue in recent years, it’s anything but. In 2019, top Democrats including Amy Kobluchar and Elizabeth Warren (who both ran for president the following year) penned a letter vocalizing concerns about a “lack of transparency” and “vulnerabilities” in Dominion voting machines.
A 2022 Rasmussen poll found that 39% of likely voters thought electronic voting machines made it easier to cheat, 33% didn’t believe it made a difference, and 19% thought they made it more difficult to cheat.
Seijah Drake was born in Boston, MA, where she developed a penchant for writing early on and a passion for politics in college. After college she worked briefly for a conservative media in New York before relocating to the Greater D.C. Area to pursue a career in political marketing. She now resides in the free state of Florida.
Democrats can’t win a “clean” election.They must use Communist friendly voting machine companies like Dominion etc.
Use only paper ballets
Don’t use machines, Use only paper ballets