Who even uses flash drives any more? Using those in most corporations any more will get you fired, if you can even find a USB port to plug one into.
Someone turned it in, and it was properly claimed at the DNC ‘lost and found’
I hope that drive was secure. No? Why are they using those things? Seems like they could easily be tampered with or altered. Was she going to go download more votes somewhere? Jeez Louise.
Many do where corporate policies dictate OS updates that will render million dollar systems useless ( said systems are intentionally kept of the network / domain as a result). Due to that; data must be transferred somehow and flash drives are a simple economical way of bridging that gap. Of course you have to have other machines that are on the domain that have access to USB ports to transfer the data.
SInce election machines are not supposed to be on an internet the only choice to move information is through media like an USB drive etc.
Now the difference between your “corporation” and the election is that your corporation has ties to a corporate server that is connected through an intranet or internet. An election spreads out machines where an intranet is not feasible. Nor are dedicated intranet linesto each city. Therefore the data must be moved to a central location and this is done via media like a USB drive/flash drive/CD ROM etc.
When you know more about the technology you can chime in with your ignorant remarks. I know a lot of techs still use USB drives in the corporate production environment, approved first of course.