“Citizen researchers in St. Johns County, Florida coordinated with each other to document the Wi-Fi networks that were active at fifteen of the polling locations across their county. They discovered that a single cellular network that had been named “LetTheDogOut!” was serving all 15 voting locations in St. Johns County during the 2022 midterms.”
But a WiFi network is different than a cellular network.
“They discovered that a single cellular network that had been named “LetTheDogOut!” was serving all 15 voting locations in St. Johns County during the 2022 midterms.”
Ok, but the screenshot in the story shows ‘LetTheDogOut!’ is a single WiFi router, it’s not a cellular network. It’s visible on a cell phone with Wi-Fi turned on (or visible on an iPad or laptop or PC).
I can see about 6 different Wi-Fi routers on my laptop (my neighbor’s routers). Doesn’t mean that their routers are serving my laptop (they are secured with a password, as is my router, as is the LetTheDogOut router).
And a Wi-Fi router wouldn’t be able to serve multiple voting locations across an entire county no more than my Wi-Fi can serve the entire county where I live.
Correct. It is either wrong or poorly explained. It could be that the voting machines have a Wi-Fi connection with a bridge device to access the broader cell network then that would make sense. If all the voting machines looked to get onto this Wi-Fi bridge you’d want a standard Wi-Fi name. It may have been that the voting machines had Wi-Fi but no cellular capability. The Wi-Fi/cellular bridge could just be someone’s cell phone.