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Election Expert Hacks into Dominion Voting Machine in Front of Georgia Judge USING ONLY A PEN to Change Vote Totals

University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman was able to HACK a Dominion Voting machine to change the tabulation using only a pen.

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This article originally appeared on Infowars and was republished with permission.

Guest post by Jamie White

An election integrity group is seeking to remove Dominion Voting machines in Georgia in favor of paper ballots ahead of the 2024 election in an ongoing lawsuit against election officials.

In a trial that began Tuesday, the plaintiffs asked U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg to order the state to stop using the Dominion Voting Systems touchscreen machines used by nearly every in-person voter statewide.

In the latest development on Friday in a federal court in Atlanta, University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman was able to HACK a Dominion Voting machine to change the tabulation using only a pen.

And he managed to do it in front of Judge Totenberg in the courtroom.

Halderman and Security Researcher and Assistant Professor at Auburn University Drew Sringall collaborated on a report in July 2021 where they discovered exploitable vulnerabilities in the Dominion Voting Systems’ ImageCast X system.

In June 2023, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia unsealed the 96-page Halderman Report – the Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices.

The report confirmed that votes can be altered in the Dominion voting machines because Dominion’s software is vulnerable and can be hacked.

Obama-appointed Judge Totenberg sealed and covered up the results of the investigation of Dominion voting machines in Georgia and sat on the report until last week.

Professor Halderman wrote about the report’s findings following its release, warning the Dominion vulnerabilities risk being exploited in upcoming Georgia elections:

Back in September 2020, the Court granted the Curling Plaintiffs access to one of Georgia’s touchscreen ballot marking devices (BMDs) so that they could assess its security. Drew and I extensively tested the machine, and we discovered vulnerabilities in nearly every part of the system that is exposed to potential attackers. The most critical problem we found is an arbitrary-code-execution vulnerability that can be exploited to spread malware from a county’s central election management system (EMS) to every BMD in the jurisdiction. This makes it possible to attack the BMDs at scale, over a wide area, without needing physical access to any of them.

Our report explains how attackers could exploit the flaws we found to change votes or potentially even affect election outcomes in Georgia, including how they could defeat the technical and procedural protections the state has in place. While we are not aware of any evidence that the vulnerabilities have been exploited to change votes in past elections, without more precautions and mitigations, there is a serious risk that they will be exploited in the future.

Halderman also warned that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who he claimed had been aware of the findings for two years, announced that the state would not install Dominion’s security patches until AFTER the 2024 presidential election.

Dominion, which is not a party to this case, said in a statement that there are “many layers of robust operational and procedural safeguards in place, overseen by local election officials, that help protect our elections and serve to ensure that any physical tampering is prohibited.”

Meanwhile, Judge Totenberg, who has “previously expressed concerns about the state’s election system and its implementation,” according to the AP, wrote in an order in October that she can’t order the state to switch to a system that uses hand-marked paper ballots.

Instead, she said she could order “pragmatic, sound remedial policy measures,” including eliminating the QR codes on ballots, stronger cybersecurity measures and more robust audits.

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