Los Angeles County is making a “risky voting experiment” with its new electronic voting systems powered by Smartmatic software for Super Tuesday’s presidential election, Politico reports. One critic finds the security flaws “staggering.”
“Those security gaps, if left unfixed, could provide a gateway for a rogue election staffer or someone else with physical access to alter software on the voting machines or their back-end computer systems, possibly changing votes or otherwise disrupting the presidential race,” according to Politico.
“This has prompted some election integrity experts to call for barring the system from elections until they’re fully resolved,” the article says. “The issues include multiple digital and physical vulnerabilities, some of them identified in a recent assessment by California’s secretary of state and others identified by outside computer security experts.”
“’Some of the security flaws found in VSAP are staggering and should be disqualifying,’ said Susan Greenhalgh, vice president for programs and policy at National Election Defense Coalition, an election integrity advocacy group,” Politico says. (Emphasis added)
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1. Los-angeles-county-voting-experiment
1. Politico, an ideological foe of the Trump administration, warns of “staggering” security failures in the Smartmatic systems running 2020 elections the most populous county of the United States. What were those flaws, and were they fixed in time?
2. Have those flaws been identified and fixed since 2020?
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