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Pegasus2 r6 atlanta6/13/2023 “But while computer security experts like me have sounded the alarm for many years, states have largely ignored the threat, and the machine manufacturers have thrown up enough obfuscating babble that election officials are largely mollified,” he writes. Bruce Schneier, for one, has written urgently for action before this fall’s election. Other security experts are concerned as well. This summer, the secretary of state in Georgia turned down a Department of Homeland Security offer to help secure its voting system saying it was a federal power grab. It’s a difficult problem, though, because elections are set up by individual states that don’t necessarily want to give up authority over what systems they use. ATMs, which are analogous to voting machines, have such standards because they serve a single industry that built consensus around them.Ī range of exploits could leave electronic voting open to a range of exploits from a lack of encryption to Wi-Fi connectivity and the physical integrity of the devices, he says. Varner says standards are needed for computerized voting systems sold in the U.S.
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