(Kyle Becker) It’s 2022. Two years after one of the most hotly contested elections in U.S. history. And elections security “watchdog” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, also known as CISA, is finally admitting what many have known all along: Dominion Voting Systems has serious election security vulnerabilities.
by Kyle Becker, June 2nd, 2022
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday about CISA issuing an alert about the Dominion voting machines. It is heavily weighted with verbiage meant to spurn anyone who might come to the conclusion that the 2020 election was “stolen.” It is worth citing the AP, nonetheless.
“Electronic voting machines from a leading vendor used in at least 16 states have software vulnerabilities that leave them susceptible to hacking if unaddressed, the nation’s leading cybersecurity agency says in an advisory sent to state election officials,” the report said.
“The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, or CISA, said there is no evidence the flaws in the Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment have been exploited to alter election results,” the report added. “The advisory is based on testing by a prominent computer scientist and expert witness in a long-running lawsuit that is unrelated to false allegations of a stolen election pushed by former President Donald Trump after his 2020 election loss.”
“The advisory, obtained by The Associated Press in advance of its expected Friday release, details nine vulnerabilities and suggests protective measures to prevent or detect their exploitation,” the AP noted.
“These vulnerabilities, for the most part, are not ones that could be easily exploited by someone who walks in off the street, but they are things that we should worry could be exploited by sophisticated attackers, such as hostile nation states, or by election insiders, and they would carry very serious consequences,” Halderman told the AP.
It is critical to note that elections watchdogs, including prominent Democrats, were sounding the alarms about voting security vulnerabilities well ahead of the 2020 election.
In February 2020, ahead of the presidential election contest, the AP published a report on America’s insecure voting systems, noting also that these systems are ‘pricey.’
“Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. voters will cast ballots this year on devices that look and feel like the discredited paperless voting machines they once used, yet leave a paper record of the vote,” the AP reported. “But computer security experts are warning that these so-called ballot-marking devices still pose too much of a risk.”
“Several other particularly worrisome vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to forge cards used in the machines by technicians, giving the attacker access to a machine that would allow the software to be changed,” Halderman added.
“Attackers could then mark ballots inconsistently with voters’ intent, alter recorded votes or even identify voters’ secret ballots,” Halderman said.
Thus, the Associated Press is conceding the plausibility that Dominion Voting Systems machines have security vulnerabilities. This expert-acknowledged fact was nonetheless called a “conspiracy theory” after the contested 2020 election.
It seems like the only time the mainstream media call something a “conspiracy theory” is if it harms the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton to this day still claims that the 2016 election was “stolen,” and Democrats in 2017 objected to the election of Donald Trump. One of their complaints? Voting machines.
Thus, it seems like there should be a bi-partisan consensus: If you can’t independently audit an election, those results can arguably be considered to be illegitimate.
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