White House officials have for months delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the nation’s voting machines ahead of the November midterms, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further safeguarded by, for example, updating their software, the sources said. It does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping, but examines security gaps in how the machines are used during U.S. elections.
Some White House officials have argued the report could undermine voter confidence, particularly among Republicans. Others have said they do not believe the report goes far enough in supporting Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, the three sources said. Some Democrats said privately they worried Gabbard’s probe into voting machines would be used by the administration to push states to use paper ballots.
Because he’s gonna call on his old pal Elon to help out again.
Funfact: Republicans bought Dominion Voting and renamed it to Liberty Votes. Dominion Voting was previously the voting machine provider for U.S. voting - even as States have their own maintenance team (as is my understanding).
of course.
It says nothing was wrong, the overwhelming majority of attempts to cheat the system have been caught, and are from republicans.
So they’re gonna suppress it until just before the election, where they’ll release some bullshit blaming liberals and illegals, so theres just enough time to enflame the idiots without having the time think about how stupid it is and listen to the debunking
paywall bullshit
The only way to prevent all those issues with voting machines is to get rid of them.
There is no way that a voting machine fulfills the demands for a fair, secret, democratic, tamper-resistant vote. It is basically mathematically impossible to perform a proper democratic vote on a machine.
The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further safeguarded by, for example, updating their software, the sources said.
Are voting machines connected to the internet???
I mean, yeah, updating software is nearly always better for security, but why wouldn’t you just run the machines disconnected for max security?
I imagine they’d just be updated via a USB drive or something similar, no need for a wi-fi adapter.
Someone could still get isolated access to one, and it’s not a bad idea to ensure that the firmware is as robustly secure as possible.
The last voting machines I worked on didn’t have Internet connectivity, but they did have a freely accessible PCMCIA card slot for firmware updates.
