South Carolina bought new voting machines in 2019 that are more secure than its old ones, but cyber experts say they’re still risky
Other experts expressed less concern about these relatively new machines, saying the ballot-printing touchscreens are probably not the most promising avenue for hackers looking to disrupt an election.
“That said,” he added, “the risk that malware somehow finds its way into these machines is a legitimate security threat.” “We have not experienced any issues with the operation of the system, and we expect it to continue to perform as designed in all future elections,” he said.“That doesn’t mean that [the machines] work perfectly,” said Jeremy Epstein, vice chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery's U.S. Technology Policy Committee.
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