A cybersecurity firm reviewing new election software for 2024 found security bugs and coding that was outsourced overseas.
Election officials in New Hampshire attempted to work with a knowledgeable IT firm in Connecticut to revamp the state’s voter registration database.
But as their timeline grew tighter and the company struggled with the scope of work, New Hampshire officials were shocked to discover the company had outsourced part of the coding work.
A Politico investigation reveals that the state hired a forensic firm to review the end product the received, and the results were troubling.
The software was “misconfigured” to connect to servers in Russia and made use of freely available open-source code that was developed by a Russian computer engineer convicted of manslaughter.
It also revealed that one of the outsourced coders had hard-coded the Ukrainian national anthem into the voter registration database.
State officials remained defiant when the investigation was exposed, saying nothing found by the security company amounted to “evidence of wrongdoing.”
They claim the issues have since been rectified.
Evidence of Larger Issues
During Politico’s six-month investigation, it discovered that there is virtually no oversight of how or where crucial election software is produced.
And the rapidly developing technology leaves aging election officials without the experience to understand the risks or how to update their infrastructure legitimately.
“Other than some of these very large population states, most don’t have the horsepower, the experience, to do the work on their own,” a one senior U.S. election official in a large state said anonymously to Politico.
The federal Election Assistance Commission has set voluntary requirements for vendors of voting machines and other election systems, but there are no uniform laws, practices, or standards that guide development of election technology.
“If you look at the aircraft industry, we can get the supply chain down to the bolt,” said Marc Rogers, a hacker who has held senior cybersecurity positions at leading security companies. “We need to get to that place in elections, so we can properly audit the parties putting everything together.”
Paper ballots with voter ID. We did this for a hundred years without even suspicion of stolen elections. We now have computers involved and hackers prevail. Our legislators don’t want to get involved because they are, for the nost part ,electronicly ignorant.
NO THEY ARE NOT “ELECTRONICALLY IGNORANT” THEY ARE “COMPLICIT”. FRANCE EXPERIMENTED WITH “ALL MAIL-IN ELECTIONS” BACK IN 1973. BY 1975 THEY BANNED MAIL-IN ELECTIONS BECAUSE THEY FOUND ALL ELECTIONS AT EVERY LEVEL WERE TAINTED AND FRAUDULENT. SAME GOES FOR DIGITAL ELECTION SYSTEMS. THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CREATED FOR SOUTH AMERICAN DICTATORS. ONCE THEY PROVED TO WORK FOR THEM THE DEMONRATS DECIDED TO BRING THEM TO AMERICA FOR THE SAME PURPOSE !!!!!
Electronics used at any point in the voting system is and open invitation for fraud. I am not the most computer savvy guy but I compare these systems to Vegas slot machines. They can be programmed to spit out the results desired —— as they say garbage in, garbage out and virtually no one in the public sphere will or can know the difference. We only know what those in control want us to know. Most countries use paper including France, Germany, UK, Australia. They understand the danger of these computerized systems. Need I say why we use electronic voting? And no it is not faster! When I was a kid in the 50s and early 60s we had the results when we got up on Wednesday morning. Today many are still messing with the count a week later! And many are wondering if the election was in anyway honest. And what has our government done to correct the obvious fraud issues that we had in 2020? Virtually nada! It is no wonder that our trust in the government is at an all time low.
All aspects of our government have been corrupted by the greed of money and power.