While the focus has been on hackers disrupting U.S. elections, federal investigators and campaigns “may have overlooked a one major source of vulnerability: the hardware and software ‘guts’ of voting machines,” The Security Ledger reports.
“A study by the security firm Interos has found that one fifth (20%) of the hardware and software components in a popular voting machine came from suppliers in China. Furthermore, close to two-thirds (59%) of components in that voting machine came from companies with locations in both China and Russia,” according to the report.
Touchscreen voting hardware is made in China.
Then there is the suppliers of the suppliers of the suppliers. Nearly one-fifth of suppliers are China-based firms. A supplier with locations in China and Russia provides machinery to produce processors used in voting machines in the United States.
The Wall Street Journal carried a similar story.
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1. Voting-machine-parts-made-by-foreign-suppliers-stir-security-concerns (Eliminated)
2. Study-finds-chinese-hardware-powers-u-s-voting-machine
1. How lax has the United States been, across the political board, among federal security agencies, and at every level of government from local to state to federal, to allow foreign adversaries to be part of our election supply chain?
2. Who is responsible?
3. Has anything been improved since 2019?
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