Georgia voting equipment breach at center of tangled tale

AP News.com ^ | 9/23/2022 | KATE BRUMBACK

[Beave Meister]

ATLANTA (AP) — The tale of breached voting equipment in one of the country’s most important political battleground states involves a bail bondsman, a prominent attorney tied to former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and a cast of characters from a rural county that rarely draws notice from outsiders.

How they all came together and what it could mean for the security of voting in the upcoming midterm elections are questions tangled up in a lawsuit and state investigations that have prompted calls to ditch the machines altogether.

Details of the unauthorized access of sensitive voting equipment in Coffee County, Georgia, became public last month when documents and emails revealed the involvement of high-profile Trump supporters. That’s also when it caught the attention of an Atlanta-based prosecutor who is leading a separate investigation of Trump’s efforts to undo his loss in the state.

[Beave Meister]

"The copying of the software and its availability for download means potential bad actors could build exact copies of the Dominion system to test different types of attacks, said University of California, Berkeley computer scientist Philip Stark, an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the voting machines lawsuit.

“This is like bank robbers having an exact replica of the vault that they’re trying to break into,” he said.

Stark said the risks could be minimized by using hand-marked paper ballots and rigorous audits. Dominion says its equipment remains secure."

Dominion knows that we know, that they know, that we know they know, they're lying, and they still tell bald face lies. They should all burn...

[rarestia]

State actors can compromise airgapped systems using sophisticated techniques honed by the NSA and CIA against our enemies. If you think Dominion is secure or that any digital election system is secure, you’re a damn fool.

[W.]

Another media scumbag’s attemt to set the narrative of Trump’s attempt to overturn the so-called selection, I mean, “election”...

[MikeyB806]

Paper ballots with voter ID sounds good!

[Chewbarkah]

“The copying of the software...” is all about figuring out how the cheating is done and how to expose it. Since that’s an existential threat to the Dems cheating game I guess we must get a new system the Dems can cheat with.

[kiryandil]

“Framing MAGA for the DNC Steal of 2020”

[thinden]

First time I’ve heard mention of sidney powell in months.

Did she fall off the earth?