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Voting-Machine Vendor Put Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to U.S. [View all]

Source: The Daily Beast

The nation’s top voting-machine maker has admitted installing remote-access software on election-management systems that it sold over a period of six years, in what one U.S. senator described as “the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.” In a letter sent to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) in April and obtained by Motherboard, Election Systems and Software admitted that it had “provided pcAnywhere remote connection software… to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006,” which was installed on the election-management system ES&S sold them. Election-management systems are not the voting terminals used to cast ballots: They stay in county election offices and contain software used to program the voting machines and count up final results from the voting machines. The remote-access software created an opportunity for hackers to breach the machines. Election-management systems and voting machines are supposed to be disconnected from the internet and from any other systems that are connected to the internet for security reasons. ES&S customers who had pcAnywhere installed also had modems on their election-management systems so ES&S technicians could dial into the systems and use the software to troubleshoot.

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Voting-Machine Vendor Put Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to U.S. [View all] DonViejo Jul 2018 OP

Putin calling! truthisfreedom Jul 2018 #1

And there it is... Zoonart Jul 2018 #2

If by it you mean a potential way for someone to manipulate and change election results cstanleytech Jul 2018 #41

I'd say voter/vote suppression was at least equally important Crash2Parties Jul 2018 #76

Modern-day ballot stuffing. sandensea Jul 2018 #3

I'm calling my registrar today Roy Rolling Jul 2018 #4

Our Late Andy Stephenson knew this in 2004... FarPoint Jul 2018 #5

Andy... Hekate Jul 2018 #44

That's us.... FarPoint Jul 2018 #64

+1... IthinkThereforeIAM Jul 2018 #56

which states have used these machines? AlexSFCA Jul 2018 #6

It doesn't matter - all brands are suspect FakeNoose Jul 2018 #12

The purpose of the 2000 election theft was to lay the groundwork for electronic machines, lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #33

Dead on!! It was a plan the was ready to be implemented. Review the time line from Bush being handed usaf-vet Jul 2018 #45

In California, counties choose the system, and ES&S is used in a few counties Brother Buzz Jul 2018 #16

Yikes! Diebold, Sequoia & ES&S for the vast majority! Crash2Parties Jul 2018 #77

Not unlike 'The Big Three' of the automotive industry Brother Buzz Jul 2018 #89

Voting machines in OH in 2004 were manipulated from secondwind Jul 2018 #7

No Botany Jul 2018 #11

No? Aren't you saying the same thing as the post you responded to? brush Jul 2018 #13

The voting machines in OH were not manipulated from TN Botany Jul 2018 #21

Oh, a slight difference. The OH vote count was manipulated in Tenn. brush Jul 2018 #24

The OH vote count was manipulated inside the state too. Botany Jul 2018 #27

Agreed. The repugs use every dirty trick in the book to steal elections. brush Jul 2018 #29

Ohio got all new machines in 2008 JohnnyRingo Jul 2018 #26

Pen and paper. Hire a few students to do the counting. Fuck off Russians, hack that! Fred Sanders Jul 2018 #31

You would find a lot of Sergeis and Natashas volunteering to "count"... (n/t) Moostache Jul 2018 #38

And MOOSTACHE, dear fellow Liberal, leave us not forget The_REAL_Ecumenist Jul 2018 #69

I don't think it'd be hard to cheat with paper & pen. JohnnyRingo Jul 2018 #71

A lot easier to hand count than you seem to think unc70 Jul 2018 #80

In Ohio we watch our vote get printed in real time. JohnnyRingo Jul 2018 #81

Nearly all of NC is now machine counted unc70 Jul 2018 #82

Little profit in pen and paper and not much campaign contributions from the corporations. Fred Sanders Jul 2018 #84

And I see that as a failsafe. JohnnyRingo Jul 2018 #87

Good lord, counting by paper is done with great faith all over the world. Independent monitors and Fred Sanders Jul 2018 #83

Would you trust a vote counter in a MAGA hat? JohnnyRingo Jul 2018 #85

OK. Then pay the counters for the day, the cost of that compared to the cost of lack of faith in the Fred Sanders Jul 2018 #86

In Ohio we pay $120 JohnnyRingo Jul 2018 #88

Yes we indeed need.. FarPoint Jul 2018 #40

Paper colsohlibgal Jul 2018 #8

Because all the people in power right now, including little putin, were "voted" in Farmer-Rick Jul 2018 #18

Paper, Not Vapor! lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #34

Ireland trashed theirs when they realized how vulnerable they were rurallib Jul 2018 #42

You can have both Algernon Moncrieff Jul 2018 #72

All these voting machines should be trashed immediately FakeNoose Jul 2018 #9

WTF?! KPN Jul 2018 #10

Whoops! ES&S is sorry about that. Mc Mike Jul 2018 #14

I do Tech Support. This is not unusal nor an anomaly. bitterross Jul 2018 #15

There should always be an open support case that the customer initiated. Bayard Jul 2018 #19

Physically cannot access it. bitterross Jul 2018 #60

not to mention the venders have been lying about it for years questionseverything Jul 2018 #61

In 2004, when this went down Calista241 Jul 2018 #93

Remember when purchasing the electronic voting machines were the big rage? TxVietVet Jul 2018 #17

K + R Raastan Jul 2018 #20

And here we gooooooooooooooooo! yuiyoshida Jul 2018 #22

They are used to "count up final results from the voting machines" Chemisse Jul 2018 #23

If they have the ability to change the vote totals, why didn't trump also win the popular vote, to Meadowoak Jul 2018 #32

Overuse would have been a dead giveaway, if indeed this was used to 'adjust' totals in key states. Chemisse Jul 2018 #37

Who is surprised? think4yourself Jul 2018 #25

Voting is a fundamental and basic right we are being deprived of karin_sj Jul 2018 #28

KR NT ProudProgressiveNow Jul 2018 #30

Paper ballots. That's all. muntrv Jul 2018 #35

What more do we need? scarytomcat Jul 2018 #36

Perfect timing for this post. WhiteTara Jul 2018 #39

My brother has been telling me this for 16 years DFW Jul 2018 #43

I remember the trigger for me in the old DU discussions: "secret source code"... Hekate Jul 2018 #48

Gee could this be why the GOP is unconcerned about a blue wave midterm? workinclasszero Jul 2018 #46

Well, yes. It's what I've been saying all year. It can be made to appear that we lost key races... Hekate Jul 2018 #50

Will we ever know how badly Hillary beat Dotard Traitor? workinclasszero Jul 2018 #53

As we know, Hillary's "loss" was a perfect storm of events, never just one thing Hekate Jul 2018 #57

All true no doubt workinclasszero Jul 2018 #59

Here's how much hassle it is to use pen&paper ballots: DetlefK Jul 2018 #47

+1000000 Hekate Jul 2018 #58

we should be demanding paper ballots..........................now turbinetree Jul 2018 #49

Agreed, although it won't happen. bearsfootball516 Jul 2018 #52

We have a little over 3 months to demand that paper ballots be used............... turbinetree Jul 2018 #55

I used to work for a company in the gaming industry onlyadream Jul 2018 #51

Teresa Heinz Kerry warned about this back in 2005 LongTomH Jul 2018 #54

How come not one person is advocating paper ballots counted by humans? CrispyQ Jul 2018 #62

Who would have thought? Cheeto's a Stalinist. sandensea Jul 2018 #63

IMO - get this fixed, and the Democratic Party will have the largest win in the history of the U.S. C Moon Jul 2018 #65

The next step is to let our elected Democratic officials know paper is a priority pecosbob Jul 2018 #66

Not a new issue ZERTErYNOthe Jul 2018 #67

dumb... Blue_Tires Jul 2018 #68

Duh. LOts of us have been screaming about this potential since they stole 2004. Amaryllis Jul 2018 #70

There must be an innocent explanation, right? BobTheSubgenius Jul 2018 #73

Ban electronic voting. Use serial numbered, thumb printed tear-off paper ballots in 3,142 counties ancianita Jul 2018 #74

I like your idea GregD Jul 2018 #91

+1 ancianita Jul 2018 #75

WTF????? You know what? If we go back to paper ballots and locked boxes, or better yet, mail in PatrickforO Jul 2018 #78

Before This DallasNE Jul 2018 #79

Wired and wireless GregD Jul 2018 #90

And servers. And counts disguised as official data streamed to various state and federal end points. ancianita Jul 2018 #92