Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification

A bunch of laptop safety specialists have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the truth that voting techniques had been breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to induce her to hunt recounts in key states to make sure election verification. 

Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessed voting tools in an effort to achieve copies of the software program that information and counts votes. The letter to Vice President Harris argues that this extraordinary and unprecedented breach in election system safety deserves conducting recounts of paper ballots in an effort to verify computer-generated tallies.  The letter additionally highlights the truth that the post-election audits in lots of key states will likely be performed after certification and after the window to hunt recounts closes, and that due to this fact recounts needs to be sought promptly. 

The letter states: “Possessing copies of the voting system software program allows dangerous actors to put in it on digital units and to create their very own working replicas of the voting techniques, probe them, and develop exploits. Expert adversaries can decompile the software program to get a model of the supply code, examine it for vulnerabilities, and will even develop malware designed to be put in with minimal bodily entry to the voting tools by unskilled accomplices to control the vote counts. Assaults is also launched by compromising the distributors answerable for programming techniques earlier than elections, enabling large-scale distribution of malware.” 

“In December 2022 and once more in 2023, many people, involved by the safety dangers posed by these breaches, wrote to the Lawyer Normal, FBI Director, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA) Director outlining the safety considerations and urging an investigation. Although there have been restricted, localized investigations, there’s no proof of a federal investigation to find out what was executed with the misappropriated voting software program.”

The letter is signed by Professor Duncan Buell, Ph.D., Chair Emeritus — NCR Chair in Pc Science and Engineering, Dept. of Pc Science and Engineering, College of South Carolina*; David Jefferson Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore Nationwide Laboratory* (retired), Election Integrity Basis*; Susan Greenhalgh, Senior Advisor for Election Safety, Free Speech For Folks; Chris Klaus, Chief Government Officer, Fusen World*; William John Malik, Malik Consulting, LLC*; Peter G. Neumann Ph.D., Chief Scientist, SRI Worldwide Pc Science Lab*; and Professor John E. Savage, Ph.D, An Wang Professor Emeritus of Pc Science, Brown College*. 

*Affiliations are listed for identification functions solely and don’t suggest institutional endorsement.

The letter will be learn right here.