Given the concentration of a few electronic voting service vendors controlling the markets of most of the country, lack of oversight of the vendors, and poor cybersecurity overall, the United States lays vulnerable to a foreign power targeting a single Pennsylvania county to flip a national election, the Brennan Center says in its new report on vendor oversight
“The ability of a foreign power to exploit the vulnerabilities of a vendor in a single county in Pennsylvania could have extraordinary repercussions for the country,” the report says.
The decentralization of the American electoral system makes local and national elections easy for foreign powers to exploit, according to the report.
The Brennan Center is so concerned about the effect of foreign exploitation of a vendor in a single county of a single state, that it highlights the problem in red, as shown:
The text of the Brennan Report is graphically reproduced here:
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1. Our/framework-election-vendor-oversight
1. A foreign power exploiting vendors to target single counties in a swing state to manipulate a national election: The Brennan Center was on this in 2019. Why weren’t political officials, counterintelligence leaders, and election security authorities paying attention?
2. What have olitical officials, counterintelligence leaders, and election security authorities done to correct the situation over the past five years?
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