re: Update from AZ Audit.

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Some routers, such as Cisco ISR routers can have hard drives and separate CPU modules in them which can run VMware and several virtual machines (servers) on them. This is nothing new. Been around 10-15 years. So the same physical chassis that one might traditionally call a “router” can actually route, process, and store data. These are used mostly for “office in a box” scenarios.

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The machines are not to be networked. Nor online.


This isn't hard

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Why would the voting machines be connected to routers at all? They are not supposed to be connected to the internet. Why would you need those routers, if you aren't connecting to the internet?

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I thought I'd actually heard that there was internet connectivity for the stated purpose of "improved dissemination to the public of real time vote tracking and vote counts". Something to that effect.

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I thought I'd actually heard that there was internet connectivity for the stated purpose of "improved dissemination to the public of real time vote tracking and vote counts". Something to that effect.

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Sure...that's all it's for..

Stated purpose. Don't forget the

Exactly.







Here's a great article from none other than NYT
"The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine"

Here's a snippet...

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In 2011, the election board in Pennsylvania’s Venango County — a largely rural county in the northwest part of the state — asked David A. Eckhardt, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, to examine its voting systems. In municipal and state primaries that year, a few voters had reported problems with machines ‘‘flipping’’ votes; that is, when these voters touched the screen to choose a candidate, the screen showed a different candidate selected. Errors like this are especially troubling in counties like Venango, which uses touch-screen voting machines that have no backup paper trail; once a voter casts a digital ballot, if the machine misrecords the vote because of error or maliciousness, there’s little chance the mistake will be detected.

Eckhardt and his colleagues concluded that the problem with the machines, made by Election Systems & Software (ES&S), was likely a simple calibration error. But the experts were alarmed by something else they discovered. Examining the election-management computer at the county’s office — the machine used to tally official election results and, in many counties, to program voting machines — they found that remote-access software had been installed on it.

Remote-access software is a type of program that system administrators use to access and control computers remotely over the internet or over an organization’s internal network. Election systems are supposed to be air-gapped — disconnected from the internet and from other machines that might be connected to the internet. The presence of the software suggested this wasn’t the case with the Venango machine, which made the system vulnerable to hackers. Anyone who gained remote access to the system could use the software to take control of the machine. Logs showed the software was installed two years earlier and used multiple times, most notably for 80 minutes on November 1, 2010, the night before a federal election.

The software, it turns out, was being used not by a hacker but by an authorized county contractor working from home. Still, the arrangement meant anyone who might gain control of the contractor’s home computer could use it to access and gain control of the county’s election system.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-hacker-proof-voting-machine.html



These bastards know they're caught.
I think they're trying to mitigate any backlash but ultimately they know nothing truly serious will happen to them.

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The Maricopa BOS is refusing a court order to turn over ROUTERS claiming they large amounts of voter data storage..... and they don't have the passwords...

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I understand what they are saying. What they are saying and what I know as reality from my 20+ years in IT are two different things. If there is "large amounts of voter data storage" on some device, it's not a "router". Routers simply don't do that.

All a router does is route data (thus the name). At most it will store traffic logs (where was data coming from, where was it going and what time was this occurring - this could be valuable information if this feature wasn't turned off). What it will not store is voter data (because if it is storing that then it's not really a router, it's probably a virtual router and the voter data is sitting on the physical device hosting the router).