PBS reports serious flaws in Georgia’s new electronic voting system. “By analyzing the structure of the Q.R. codes, I have been able to that there’s nothing that stops an attacker from just duplicating one, and the duplicate would count the same as the original bar code,” University of Michigan Computer Science Professor J. Alex Halderman says.
PBS correspondent Miles O’Brien adds, “And in late September, another concern came to light During testing, election workers found half the names of the 21 candidates for Senate intermittently disappeared from screens during the review phase.” Dominion sent out a last-minute software patch.
O’Brien calls Halderman one of “a handful of independent election security experts getting unprecedented access to the inner workings of the state’s $107 million voting system rolled out earlier this year.”
This is a problem, according to Halderman. “I’m worried that the Georgia system is the technical equivalent to the [Boeing] 737 MAX. They have just made a last-minute software change that might well have unintended consequences and cause even more severe problems on Election Day.” (Emphasis added)
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1. Did the software change indeed make things more severe, as predicted on PBS?
2. In which counties and swing states was that severity most concentrated?
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