Voting machines ‘could be used to change the votes
Shared By Peter Boykin – American Political Commentator / Citizen Journalist
Voting machines ‘could be used to change the votes
A newly unsealed expert report about Dominion voting machines reveals that the system is vulnerable to hacking with just minimal access and can be exploited to change votes.
The Halderman Report was commissioned by the plaintiff in a lawsuit, Curling v. Raffensperger, over the use of Dominion Voting Systems in Georgia elections. The report’s author, University of Michigan computer science professor Alex Handerman, was given access to the voting machines by a federal judge.
Unsealing the findings, a federal judge in Atlanta unsealed the report, making it public for the first time.
The report explains how Dominion’s ballot scanners and ballot marking devices:
“can be exploited to subvert all of its security mechanisms”
“could be used to change the votes of individual Georgia voters.”
allow attackers to “install malware with only brief physical access to the machines.”
The Feds back up the Halderman Report, Dominion commissioned its own conflicting report in the court case, arguing that the vulnerabilities were unlikely and exaggerated. But federal authorities back up the Halderman report.
According to NBC News:
“Federal authorities have identified the same vulnerabilities, and more than 20 cybersecurity experts rushed to defend Halderman’s report this week.”
Un-auditable: The report explains that the security flaws are so bad that the system cannot be audited after a vote, saying “such cheating could not be detected by [a risk-limiting audit] or a hand count.”
To be clear, the Halderman Report did not look at 2020 or 2022 election information and does not claim there were hacks in those elections. This report was solely focused on vulnerabilities that could have been exploited.
Halderman’s report warns: “My technical findings leave Georgia voters with greatly diminished grounds to be confident that the votes they cast on [Dominion devices] are secured, that their votes will be counted correctly.”
What happens next? Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says that security fixes will not be installed until after the 2024 election.
[Source: The National Pulse, NBC News]
