Halderman also said that by modifying certain files that election workers copy to voting machines before each election an attacker could spread malware to every voting machine in a county, or the whole state, without physical access to individual machines.

Malware could be installed on individual voting machines by people with temporary physical access, such election workers or voters, the report says. His findings mean Georgia voters cannot be confident their votes are secured and correctly counted or that future elections using the current system will be safe from attack and produce the correct result, the report says.

Halderman wrote that in examining a Dominion ImageCast X voting machine and associated equipment, he “played the role of an attacker and attempted to discover ways to compromise the system and change votes.”Ī longtime critic of electronic voting machines, Halderman advocates using hand-marked paper ballots read by scanners along with robust post-election audits. Georgia’s touchscreen voting machines print a paper ballot with a QR code and a human-readable list reflecting the voter’s selections, and votes are tallied by a scanner that reads the QR code. Halderman called the revelation that Georgia wouldn’t install the software upgrade until 2025 “stunning.” That gives potential attackers time to plan and execute attacks in 2024 elections, he said. “While we are constantly working to offer the latest security features and innovations to our customers, the CISA advisory clearly states that exploitation of any of the issues raised can be mitigated by following standard procedural and operational security processes for administering elections,” the company said in an emailed statement. The company maintains that its equipment is secure. Dominion has filed numerous lawsuits over false claims about its machines by supporters of former President Donald Trump who allege that the 2020 election was stolen.

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