What makes this type of attack different however is that the voted paper ballots from a compromised combination BMD/scanner machine could not be easily used to audit the scanner results because they have been compromised. NYSTEC, NYS State Board of Elections and computer science experts have long agreed that when an adversary has the ability to modify or replace the software/firmware that controls a voting machine then significant and damaging impacts to an election are possible.
NYSTEC seems less naive: they summarized the issue under examination as follows: The Board of Elections then commissioned NYSTEC, a technology consulting company, to analyze SLI’s report. (SLI’s report is pages 7-9 of the combined document.) SLI’s new report dated Mais quite naive: they ran tests on the machine and “at no point was the machine observed making unauthorized additions to the ballots.” Well indeed, if you test a machine that hasn’t (yet) been hacked, it won’t misbehave. The Board of Elections commissioned an additional report from SLI Compliance, which had done the first certification of this machine back in April 2018. This would defeat the purpose of voter-verifiable paper ballots, which are meant to serve as a safeguard against buggy or fraudulent software.
VOTING MACHINE DOMINION IMAGECAST SOFTWARE
The problem is, if the ICE’s software were hacked, the hacked software could make the machine print additional (fraudulent votes) onto hand-marked paper ballots. Most voters are expected to feed in a hand-marked optical scan ballot but the ICE also has an integrated ballot-marking device for use by those voters who wish to mark their ballot by machine. The Dominion ICE is an optical-scan voting machine. Two months ago I wrote that the New York State Board of Elections was going to request a reexamination of the Dominion ImageCast Evolution voting machine, in light of a design flaw that I had previously described.
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