John Oliver breaks down faulty election machine security on LastWeekTonight
Most public-facing election officials will argue that none of the machines used are hackable, with one Pennsylvania official claiming they could set up a machine in the middle of Red Square in Moscow and the Russians still couldn’t hack it. Oliver, in turn, cracked, “Well don’t do that! Because of course they can hack into it — they’re Russians! There are precisely three things that they are good at: Hacking, hockey and writing books so sad they make you want to drink a potato.
As Oliver detailed, the current issues facing voting machines date back to the 2000 election. After the recount fiasco caused by punch-card ballots and hanging chads, Congress passed a bill allocating $3.9 billion to update machines across the U.S. The only problem was, many of those machines were never properly vetted and tested, and many remain in use today.
Oliver pointed out that not only are aging machines likely to not function properly on their own — the glue on some touch screens can degrade and slip, causing the machine to register votes incorrectly — but they’re highly susceptible to tampering. Oliver offered various examples of how easy it is to physically hack a voting machine , and how flimsy the claims are that most machines are never connected to the Internet.
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