Republican election audits have led to voting system breaches, experts say

[Judi Lynn]

MyPillow chief gave out election software at South Dakota event derived from Republican challenges in Colorado and Michigan

Associated Press in New York
Sat 28 Aug 2021 09.47 EDT

Republican efforts to question Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020 have led to voting system breaches experts say pose a risk to future elections.

Copies of Dominion Voting Systems softwares used for designing ballots, configuring voting machines and tallying results were distributed at an event this month in South Dakota organized by the MyPillow chief executive, Mike Lindell, a Trump ally who has made unsubstantiated claims about last year’s election.

Matt Masterson, a former top election security official in the Trump administration, said: “We told election officials, essentially, that you should assume this information is already out there. Now we know it is, and we don’t know what [hackers] are going to do with it.”

The software copies came from voting equipment in Mesa county, Colorado, and Antrim county, Michigan, where Trump allies challenged results last fall. Dominion software is used in some 30 states, including California, Georgia and Michigan.

Harri Hursti, an election security pioneer, was at the South Dakota event and said he and other researchers were given three separate copies of election management systems that run on the Dominion software. Data indicated they were from Antrim and Mesa counties. While it’s not clear how the copies came to be released, they were also posted online and made available for public download.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/28/republican-election-audits-have-led-to-voting-system-breaches-experts-say

[rickford66]

1. I doubt they have source code.

Plus the new Dominion machines will probably have updated programs. Or at least they should.

[patphil]

2. The purpose of this is to cast even greater doubts as to the security of Dominion voting systems.

Now the Republicans can say that the Dominion systems can be hacked because their programs are out in the public domain.
It doesn't matter that the people who did this did so deliberately to damage Dominion.
They can now claim that their voting systems are not secure and can't be used.