2022 The Washington Post drops bombshell
Trump’s election lawyers copied sensitive voting machine data in multiple battleground states — a criminal felony — as part of their “secretive” operation to steal Biden’s win.
2022 TRUMP MUST BE CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED!
2019 – 2017
Election Security ~ Joseph Lorenzo Hall Chief Technologist
https://www.votespa.com/About-Elections/Pages/Election-Security.aspx
https://thevotingnews.com/tag/joseph-hall/
https://www.newsweek.com/hacking-defcon-voting-machines-technology-software-eac-russia-meddling-681759
Center for Democracy & Technology
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Why worries about paperless voting loom larger this year
In Pennsylvania, considered a battleground state, those machines are used in a majority of counties. “On a scale of all of the states, I would say that Pennsylvania would be my biggest concern,” says Smith. Pennsylvania also worries Avi Rubin, a computer security expert at Johns Hopkins University. “What do we do if, at the end of the election, it comes down to Pennsylvania and there’s a challenge saying, you know, these machines were corrupted?” Rubin asks. “We can’t do recounts. We don’t have paper ballots. We just have to live with those machines.” “They don’t have a separate record that the voter got a chance to see and confirm was correct at the time that they voted,” says Smith, who notes that this type of machine gives you “nothing independent of the software in the machine.” “So an attack that works against one county will work against many counties,” says Dan Wallach, a computer scientist at Rice University who studies voting machine security.
https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/10/18/65668/why-worries-about-paperless-voting-loom-larger-thi/Scientist Shows How Easily American Voting Machines Can Be Hacked
A month ahead of the midterm congressional elections, security experts say the risks remain high for a hack on voting machines or other targets. At a Boston technology conference last month, computer scientist Alex Halderman showed how easy it was to hack into an electronic voting machine and change the result, without leaving a trace.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/scientist-shows-how-easily-american-voting-machines-can-be-hacked-1928045DEFCON 25
Voting Machine
Hacking Village
Report on Cyber Vulnerabilities in
U.S. Election Equipment, Databases, and Infrastructure
https://josephhall.org/papers/DEF_CON_25_voting_village_report.pdf
Delaware County Officials
https://www.delcopa.gov/electedofficials/index.html
Delaware County is using vendor
ELECTEC Election Services
609-265-8181
10 Eagle Avenue, #800
Mount Holly, New Jersey 08060
Model: Danaher ELECTronic 1242
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahmw_sqwrhw
see Danaher Shouptronic 1242 also known as Danaher Electronic 1242
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/danaher/shouptronic/
Danaher in the News — A Partial List of Documented Failures
http://www.votersunite.org/info/Danaherinthenews.pdf
Name / Model: ELECTronic / 12421 (also known as the Shouptronic)
Vendor:Guardian Voting Systems, Inc. (division of Danaher Controls, Inc.)
Voter-Verifiable Paper Record Capability: None
lists numerous past problems https://www.verifiedvoting.org/downloads/2008Danaher1242-full.pdf
Pennsylvania Needs Resilient, Evidence-Based Elections
Written Testimony Prepared For
Pennsylvania Senate State Government Hearing
September 25, 2018
https://stategovernment.pasenategop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2018/09/pa_sen_state_gov_testimony.pdf
“…Danaher has determined that the discrepancies were the result of a communications block between the laptop computer and the MCRP; at the exact moment the MCRP sent the memory cartridge data to the laptop, the laptop was busy completing another task. As a result, the laptop did not receive the data as fast as it was sent by the MCRP and consequently, data was lost. Danaher has traced the data loss to the exact bytes that were dropped during the transmission process and it consistently replicated the same values that were misreported in the unofficial election night results.”
Guardian Voting Systems ELECTronic 1242
Shouptronic 1242 https://thevotingnews.com/tag/shouptronic-1242/
see Voting news
https://thevotingnews.com/national/
https://thevotingnews.com/national/
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is demanding answers from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) as to how the federal agency plans to secure election equipment amid reports that most machines depend on software that will soon be out-of-date and vulnerable to cyber attacks. In a letter dated July 12 that was released on Monday, Wyden asked EAC Chairwoman Christy McCormick how the agency plans to address this “looming cybersecurity crisis.” “Intelligence officials have made it clear that Russian hackers targeted our elections in 2016, and that they expect similar threats in 2020,” Wyden wrote. “The continued use of out-of-date software on voting machines and the computers used to administer elections lays out the red carpet for foreign hackers. This is unacceptable.” The Associated Press recently reported that the majority of U.S. counties use election management systems that run on Windows 7, an outdated operating system that Microsoft will stop updating in January. The systems are responsible for programming voting machines and tallying votes. Wyden focused his questions on whether products created by Election Systems and Software (ES&S), one of the major U.S. voting equipment manufacturers, would be decertified by the EAC prior to the 2020 elections. According to EAC documentation, the equipment uses Windows 7. Wyden gave McCormick a July 26 deadline to respond to his questions.
Pennsylvania’s message was clear: The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020. Last April, its top election official told counties they had to update their systems. So far, nearly 60% have taken action, with $14.15 million of mostly federal funds helping counties buy brand-new electoral systems. But there’s a problem: Many of these new systems still run on old software that will soon be outdated and more vulnerable to hackers. An Associated Press analysis has found that like many counties in Pennsylvania, the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, program voting machines, tally votes and report counts. That’s significant because Windows 7 reaches its “end of life” on Jan. 14, meaning Microsoft stops providing technical support and producing “patches” to fix software vulnerabilities, which hackers can exploit. In a statement to the AP, Microsoft said Friday it would offer continued Windows 7 security updates for a fee through 2023. Critics say the situation is an example of what happens when private companies ultimately determine the security level of election systems with a lack of federal requirements or oversight. Vendors say they have been making consistent improvements in election systems. And many state officials say they are wary of federal involvement in state and local elections.
https://apnews.com/e5e070c31f3c497fa9e6875f426ccde1
Defcon Summary with Harri Hursti and Matt Blaze
At the annual DEF CON conference on July 27-30, 2017, a “Voting Village” provided the opportunity for hackers to attempt to breach the security of electronic voting machines. Some of the machines that were shown to be vulnerable are still deployed in elections. Verified Voting Advisory Board Members Harri Hursti and Matt Blaze coordinated this effort and are working on a report.
We recently held a debriefing conference call with Matt and Harri, a recording of which is linked below. Please note: We had some minor technical problems with the recording. The sound file cuts off the very first sentence or two, so the recording begins with Harri Hursti in the middle of a sentence. There is a point in the call where the recording goes silent for about 5 seconds. The sound quality of the call is not great, but it is understandable and there is great information in the discussion. We apologize for the technical glitches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADyfcz6MUD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4elCHRnRmQ
Computer Technologists’ Statement on Internet Voting
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/InternetVotingStatement.pdf
Press Coverage
For decade-old flaws in voting machines, no quick fix | The Parallax August 11, 2017
Our Hackable Democracy | New York Review of Books August 10, 2017
Defcon Hackers Made Short Work of Voting Machines. Now What? | GCN August 8, 2017
Hacking the Vote: Why Voting Systems Aren’t as Secure as You Might Think | KQED August 8, 2017
Voting System Hacks Prompt Push for Paper-Based Voting | Dark Reading August 7, 2017
DEFCON Hackers Found Many Holes in Voting Machines and Poll Systems | IEEE Spectrum August 3, 2017
A Solution to Hackers? More Hackers | New York Times August 2, 2017
To Fix Voting Machines, Hackers Tear Them Apart | WIRED August 1, 2017
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/output_1515392568.htm