Hackers gathered in Las Vegas last weekend for the annual DEF CON conference to try to identify vulnerabilities in voting machines for the 2024 election, but it may be too late to address the issues they find before this year's election.
At DEF CON's “Vote Village” hacking event, hackers manipulated various voting machines, attempting to circumvent firewalls and other security measures on the equipment meant to count ballots and verify voter identities, Politico reported. ReportedAccording to the media, many people concerned about the integrity of the election are concerned that there is no system in place to quickly update security measures.
“Time-wise, it's difficult to make any real, big systemic change, especially with less than 90 days until the election,” Catherine Terranova, one of Vote Village's organizers, was quoted as saying.
A “Vote Here” sign is stored in a warehouse at the Maricopa County Counting and Election Center (MCTEC) ahead of the 2024 Arizona primary and general elections in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 3, 2024. Maricopa County election officials have been the target of repeated harassment and intimidation since the 2020 US presidential election as online misinformation about voter fraud spread. Authorities have stepped up security and are offering public tours at the vote counting facility in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, in preparation for another wave of conspiracy theories in the 2024 presidential election. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP) (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
The media said organizers plan to publish a report on the hackers' findings soon. Voting Village co-founder Hari Hurstie was quoted as saying that the vulnerabilities discovered by Saturday afternoon amounted to “several pages.” However, the media said the process of addressing the bugs in the system is unlikely to be completed in time for the November general election. (Related: Hackers May Bring Back Paper Ballots)
The event came after former President Donald Trump's campaign was reportedly hacked. The campaign is owned by Microsoft. Report The statement claimed that Iranian hackers had targeted “senior officials in the presidential campaign.”
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“A new report from Microsoft on Friday found that Iranian hackers breached the accounts of 'senior officials' in the US presidential campaign in June 2024, roughly coinciding with the time when President Trump will be selecting his running mate,” campaign spokesman Steven Chang said. POLITICO.
During the 2016 election, the FBI reported that election databases in two states had been breached by foreign hackers. The FBI did not say which states, but there were reports at the time of attacks on voting systems in Illinois and Arizona.
A stack of ballot drop box signs sit in a storage vault at the Maricopa County Counting and Elections Center (MCTEC) ahead of the 2024 Arizona Primary and General Election in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 3, 2024. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
a Litigation A lawsuit was filed in 2017 against the Dominion voting machine system in Georgia by a group of Georgia voters and the Coalition for Good Governance, a nonprofit organization that seeks election transparency.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg agreed with the plaintiffs' claims of vulnerability and ordered Georgia to update its system, Court News Service reported. Reported.
ATLANTA, GA – MAY 21: A Fulton County Board of Elections employee holds his arm out as voters cast their ballots in the Georgia Primary Election at a polling place in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 21, 2024. The Fulton County ballot also includes Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the election interference criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. (Photo by Elijah Nouvellege/Getty Images)
Republicans' confidence in US elections after the 2020 election It plummeted Due to concerns about voter fraud, Rasmussen Reports Reported By 2022, it is predicted that “a majority of Republicans do not trust electronic voting machines.”
The poll also found that “39% of American voters believe voting machines make it easier to rig elections.”
Tomorrow: Will concerns about fraud reach new record levels this year, with so many machines connected to the internet during the election?
These first-time results suggest that voters across the country don't have a lot of trust in “the machine.”
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