Voting machines used in 20-plus states are susceptible to hacking

[Cetacea]

|https://www.dailydot.com/debug/voting-machine-hacking/]


"At Def Con‘s Voting Village this year, hackers showed how woefully insecure our election hardware is. Voting machines used in more than 23 states are open to being remotely hacked—and in some cases, it can take less time to do than voting itself.

The information comes by way of Def Con’s September Voting Village report. According to the report, the voting tabulator used in 23 states is open to a network-based attack. Such an attack could effectively change a high number of ballots, potentially changing the outcome of a presidential election.

A second machine used in 18 states can be hacked in less than two minutes. On average, it takes a person six minutes to vote. Other vulnerabilities, including one that was first exposed more than ten years ago and still hasn’t been patched, were also explored.

Both hackers and election officials are well aware that our voting infrastructure is not as secure as it should be. Last year at Def Con, a group of hackers defeated 30 different voting machines in under 90 minutes. Still, America is having trouble appropriating funds to this issue of national importance..."


GOTV is one way to fight this...

[JudyM]

1. The root of the problem, and rethugs voted down $ for states to fix it. No surprise.

Copy of the report, shudder-worthy: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-26/DEF%20CON%2026%20voting%20village%20report.pdf

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Then why arent dems hacking them

[shraby]

3. Isn't that about the number of states that Russia hacked into in the 2016?

[Cetacea]

4. Yes. And largely kept quiet while Kelly was running Homeland Security

As far as I know, not much has been done to address machine vulnerabilities.

edit:grammar

[llmart]

5. Everyone should be able to vote at home with a paper ballot.

[Onward AND Upward]

6. We can avoid the electronic machines, read this...

The solution is in post #25 and #27 here.

I posted this info, and asked for someone to start a thread, as I cant yet...it requires IMMEDIATE action, as time is running out.

~Rosie

[llmart]

7. Great posts!

However, Dems should have been all over this after the 2016 election. I know that here in Michigan we have been able to get a proposal on this ballot for everyone to vote by mail. I'm hoping it passes. I have also always wondered how anyone could possibly go after a voter who stated they wouldn't be close to their polling place on election day. I think most people try to follow the rules though. I know I would have never lied about something like that before I was eligible to vote absentee.

I will track my ballot through the USPS. I have a friend who has worked the polls for decades and she told me there are several levels of checking to see that absentee ballots haven't been tampered with and are legitimate vs. the machines.

[DFW]

8. ALL the electronic voting machines are subject to hacking

Even if they are not online. My brother does hi-tech stuff for DARPA, and he told me back in 2002, "give me a laptop and a cell phone, and I'll make any one of those machines give you any result you want." He told me that their software and technology has hardly been updated since then, too.

[llmart]

9. My son's a software engineer for NASA...

and he finds it laughable that anyone thinks our voting machines aren't hackable.