Elections Security Watchdog Blows the Whistle on Serious Vulnerabilities in Dominion Voting Systems Machines

"One of the most serious vulnerabilities could allow malicious code to be spread from the election management system to machines throughout a jurisdiction"...

It's 2022. Two years after one of the most hotly contested elections in U.S. history. And elections security "watchdog" the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, also known as CISA, is finally admitting what many have known all along: Dominion Voting Systems has serious election security vulnerabilities.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday about CISA issuing an alert about the Dominion voting machines. It is heavily weighted with verbiage meant to spurn anyone who might come to the conclusion that the 2020 election was "stolen." It is worth citing the AP, nonetheless.

"Electronic voting machines from a leading vendor used in at least 16 states have software vulnerabilities that leave them susceptible to hacking if unaddressed, the nation’s leading cybersecurity agency says in an advisory sent to state election officials," the report said.

"The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, or CISA, said there is no evidence the flaws in the Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment have been exploited to alter election results," the report added. "The advisory is based on testing by a prominent computer scientist and expert witness in a long-running lawsuit that is unrelated to false allegations of a stolen election pushed by former President Donald Trump after his 2020 election loss."

It is worth noting that the report from expert witness, J. Alex Halderman, a computer scientist at the University of Michigan, is still sealed and is not yet available for public scrutiny.

"The advisory, obtained by The Associated Press in advance of its expected Friday release, details nine vulnerabilities and suggests protective measures to prevent or detect their exploitation," the AP noted.

“These vulnerabilities, for the most part, are not ones that could be easily exploited by someone who walks in off the street, but they are things that we should worry could be exploited by sophisticated attackers, such as hostile nation states, or by election insiders, and they would carry very serious consequences,” Halderman told the AP.

The AP added that Halderman, who wrote the report on which the advisory is based, has long argued that "using digital technology to record votes is dangerous because computers are inherently vulnerable to hacking and thus require multiple safeguards that aren’t uniformly followed. He and many other election security experts have insisted that using hand-marked paper ballots is the most secure method of voting and the only option that allows for meaningful post-election audits."

It is critical to note that elections watchdogs, including prominent Democrats, were sounding the alarms about voting security vulnerabilities well ahead of the 2020 election…