White House officials have for months delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the nation’s voting machines ahead of the November midterms, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further safeguarded by, for example, updating their software, the sources said. It does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping, but examines security gaps in how the machines are used during U.S. elections.
Some White House officials have argued the report could undermine voter confidence, particularly among Republicans. Others have said they do not believe the report goes far enough in supporting Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, the three sources said. Some Democrats said privately they worried Gabbard’s probe into voting machines would be used by the administration to push states to use paper ballots.
The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further safeguarded by, for example, updating their software, the sources said.
Are voting machines connected to the internet???
I mean, yeah, updating software is nearly always better for security, but why wouldn’t you just run the machines disconnected for max security?
Someone could still get isolated access to one, and it’s not a bad idea to ensure that the firmware is as robustly secure as possible.
The last voting machines I worked on didn’t have Internet connectivity, but they did have a freely accessible PCMCIA card slot for firmware updates.
I imagine they’d just be updated via a USB drive or something similar, no need for a wi-fi adapter.
I think with an admin that could be vindicated with a release of this study NOT releasing it tells you all you need to know.
The study likely doesn’t conclude what they’ve been harping for years.
waiting for the results to see if they want to say they have issues or not.
Paper ballots are good you dumb motherfuckers. Fully electronic voting can be rigged with 0 evidence. Fucking one firmware patch that self deletes after polls close is literally all it takes on multiple models from multiple manufacturers who are mostly owned by billionaires now.
FUCK! 🤬 democrats can’t even be pissed off at the right part of this.
Exactly this. You are just telling your vote to someone (some machine) that pinkie promises to count it correctly with no asurance whatsoever.
And to be clear they do make electronic machines with auditable paper. Those are cool.
Assuming it is implemented well, yes! If the audit paper is a QR code that no one will reasonably check, then it is not worth much.
Why, are we working on the final touches as to how it can be rigged?
“Can be rigged” lol
-Elon
Their likely endgame is to ban all the machines that are harder to rig, and mandate the use of the ones that they have already rigged.
They’ll also try to ban more transparent processes such as hand-counting of physical ballots.
I mean, they already bought the machine producer company Dominion Voting in 2025 to rebrand as Liberty Votes.
They want to release it a week or so before the election, then use that as an excuse for draconian voter suppression measures, leaving no time to appeal.
Someone needs to FOIA that stuff ASAP.
Funfact: Republicans bought Dominion Voting and renamed it to Liberty Votes. Dominion Voting was previously the voting machine provider for U.S. voting - even as States have their own maintenance team (as is my understanding).
The only way to prevent all those issues with voting machines is to get rid of them.
There is no way that a voting machine fulfills the demands for a fair, secret, democratic, tamper-resistant vote. It is basically mathematically impossible to perform a proper democratic vote on a machine.
of course.
It says nothing was wrong, the overwhelming majority of attempts to cheat the system have been caught, and are from republicans.
So they’re gonna suppress it until just before the election, where they’ll release some bullshit blaming liberals and illegals, so theres just enough time to enflame the idiots without having the time think about how stupid it is and listen to the debunking
Because he’s gonna call on his old pal Elon to help out again.
My state uses paper scantron ballets. Easy for machines to count and easy paper trail if needed to count by hand. Why is this not the way.
paywall bullshit
