3OPENSpace Research Centre, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.2Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.1Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.Mullenbach 5, Matt Carusona 6 and Michelle Wells 6 Bocarro 1, KangJae Jerry Lee 1, Jonathan Casper 1, Kathryn T. Larson 1 *, Zhenzhen Zhang 2, Jae In Oh 1, Will Beam 1, S. The coalition says it is no longer certain that the number of states is correct, so the figure has been removed from the article.Lincoln R. 7, 2020, 11:15 p.m.): A previous version of this article stated that Kevin Skoglund and his team had found election systems using ES&S scanners with wireless modems connected to the internet in 11 states and the District of Columbia. While lawmakers questioned them about foreign influence in their supply chains and whether they would comply with more federal reporting requirements, the presence of modems in some of their tabulators was mentioned but not pursued.ĮDITOR’S NOTE (Feb. voting machines, appeared together for questioning. The House Committee on Administration held a congressional hearing yesterday which was the first time the heads of the three major vendors, representing at least 80 percent of U.S. The machines America votes on seem to be capturing the interest of some in Congress. These two tech experts also agree on the path forward, saying they are comforted by the fact that most Americans will vote this year on hand-marked paper ballots which are counted by machine and can be recounted by hand if the situation warrants. We should not connect our voting machines directly to the computer networks.
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"What we should do is remove all of the unnecessary, hackable pathways, such as modems. “We can not make our computers perfectly secure," he said. “There can still be security holes that allow hackers to get into the phone network.”Īppel agreed. “AT&T and Verizon and so on try and protect as best they can the security of their phone network from the rest of the internet, but it’s still part of the internet,” Appel explained.
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The largest manufacturer of voting machines, ES&S, told NBC News their systems are protected by firewalls and are not on the “public internet.” But both Skoglund and Andrew Appel, a Princeton computer science professor and expert on elections, said such firewalls can and have been breached. Those modems connect to cell phone networks, which, in turn, are connected to the internet. The reason? So that unofficial election results can more quickly be relayed to the public. The three largest voting manufacturing companies - Election Systems &Software, Dominion Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic - have acknowledged they all put modems in some of their tabulators and scanners. Once they had identified such systems, they contacted the relevant election officials and also provided the information to reporter Kim Zetter, who published the findings in Vice’s Motherboard in August. Skoglund and his team developed a tool that scoured the internet to see if the central computers that program voting machines and run the entire election process at the precinct level were online.