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BREAKING: Critical U.S. election systems have been left exposed online despite official denials bit.ly/31pplrg
For years, U.S. election officials and voting machine vendors have insisted that critical election systems are never connected to the internet and therefore can’t be hacked. bit.ly/31pplrg
But a group of election security experts have found what they believe to be nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states connected to the internet over the last year, including some in critical swing states. bit.ly/31pplrg
These include systems in nine Wisconsin counties, in four Michigan counties, and in seven Florida counties—all states that are perennial battlegrounds in presidential elections. bit.ly/31pplrg
Some of the systems have been online for a year and possibly longer. Some of them disappeared from the internet after the researchers notified an information-sharing group for election officials last year. bit.ly/31pplrg
But at least 19 of the systems, including one in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, were still connected to the internet this week, the researchers told @Motherboard. bit.ly/31pplrg
@motherboard The researchers and @motherboard have been able to verify that at least some of the systems in Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and Florida are in fact election systems. bit.ly/31pplrg
@motherboard The rest are still unconfirmed, but the fact that some of them appeared to quickly drop offline after the researchers reported them suggests their findings are on the mark. bit.ly/31pplrg
