Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software

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Good piece from Kim Zetter at Motherboard

anyone ready for paper ballots under armed guard with triple counting and validation by all parties on the ballot? I am.

TLDR - 2000-2006, remote access software put into machines that aggregated vote counts and controlled voting machines, not discovered until at least 2012, source code for the software was compromised, elections since 2001 could have been rigged.

"The nation's top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, ...Election Systems and Software acknowledged that it had "provided pcAnywhere remote connection software … to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006,"...ES&S is the top voting machine maker in the country, a position it held in the years 2000-2006 when it was installing pcAnywhere on its systems. The company's machines were used statewide in a number of states, and at least 60 percent of ballots cast in the US in 2006 were tabulated on ES&S election-management systems...Election-management systems...sit in county election offices and contain software that in some counties is used to program all the voting machines used in the county; the systems also tabulate final results aggregated from voting machines...ES&S customers who had pcAnywhere installed also had modems on their election-management systems so ES&S technicians could dial into the systems...hackers stole the source code for the pcAnyhere software, though the public didn’t learn of this until years later in 2012 when a hacker posted some of the source code online...Around this same time, security researchers discovered a critical vulnerability in pcAnywhere that would allow an attacker to seize control of a system that had the software installed on it, without needing to authenticate themselves to the system with a password....Douglas Jones, professor of computer science at the University of Iowa and a longtime expert on voting machines confirmed that other companies did routinely install remote-access software during this period...“Certainly, [Diebold Election Systems] did the same, and I'd assume the others did too,” he told Motherboard. “In the case of [Diebold], many of their contracts with customers included the requirement of a remote-login port allowing [the company] to have remote access to the customer system in order to allow customer support.”"

I think Diebold is owned / controlled by Soros. Not sure about ES&S. Diebold required remote access capability. Hmmmm