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Cory Doctorow / 3:40 pm Fri, Aug 9, 2019

The voting machines that local officials swore were not connected to the internet have been connected to the internet for years

Election Systems & Software (ES&S) is America's leading voting machine vendor; they tell election officials (who are county-level officials who often have zero cybersecurity advice or expertise) not to connect their systems to the internet, except briefly to transmit unofficial tallies on election night. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 9:58 am Wed, Jul 10, 2019

Voting machine companies: the names of our parent companies are trade secrets

When the North Carolina State Board of Elections asked the voting machine companies whose products were used in state elections who owned those companies, both Election Systems & Software and Hart Intercivic claimed that the answers to the question were proprietary, confidential trade secrets that would devalue their companies if they were divulged. Read the rest