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This is an excellent example of a state wasting good taxpayer dollars purportedly to secure elections, Indiana might as well flush $10M down the toilet. govtech.com/security/India…
Adding a VVPAT printer to 10% of DREs is beyond foolish. VVPAT's have been found to be unreliable, if not useless, to provide a physical record of voter intent because voters rarely check them. But that's not all. Any reasonable attack could & would avoid the 10% of machines ...
...that have a VVPAT to easily ensure that the attack could not be detected at all. That leaves 90% of machines an attack could manipulate entirely without even the slightest chance of detection. This $10M folly provides absolutely NO security or protections against hacking...
...but the Indiana Secretary of State is boasting that her office is implementing a meaningful security safeguard. This demonstrates how little she and her staff understand about nation-state level cyber attacks. It would not be hard to design an attack that detects if the..
...machines have a VVPAT and not change votes on those. This is a huge waste of taxpayer money. #electionsecurity @FreedomWorks
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