Machine Findings
Electronic voting Machines were never designed with security as the top priority.
​2009 California Top-to-Bottom Review of Voting Machine Source Codes
In a 2009 top-to-bottom review of its voting machines, California's Secretary of State contracted with cyber security experts to examine their machines. The experts found that the source code of Diebold voting machines (the predecessor to Dominion) were so riddled with security flaws that their conclusion was that the machines never designed with security being a priority. After the report, the Diebold machines were decertified for use in California. Ohio has 12 counties that currently use Dominion voting machines.
Vulnerabilities of voting machines have been known for many years now. In the aftermath of Kerry losing to Bush in 2004, the Democrats suspected that the Republicans had rigged the election and held Congressional hearings to determine if voting machines could be programmed to cheat. In those hearings, a software developer testified under oath that prior to the 2004 election, he had developed voting machine software for a well-known Republican political operative in Florida that could flip votes, and no one would be able to detect it without access to the source code.
Mesa County Colorado Election Management System (EMS) Forensic Examination Provides Proof of Voting Machine Corruption
In 2021 and 2022, cyber security teams contracted by the Mesa County Colorado Clerk, performed extensive forensic examinations of Dominion Voting System (DVS) Election Management System (EMS) server and produced three reports with their findings. The findings revealed that the EMS contained unauthorized software that functioned as a backdoor which allowed a secondary database to be constructed in the EMS and that it was able to manipulate votes prior to being tabulated. ​​​
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The ​unauthorized creation of new election databases during early voting in both the 2020 general election and 2012 municipal election allowed for 6,000 additional ballots without digital images to be inserted into the database making it impossible to verify that they were legitimate.The fact that such ballot record manipulation has been shown demonstrates a critical security failure with the DVS EMS wherever it is used. The manipulation would not be identifiable to an election official using the voting systems, nor to an observer or judge overseeing the election conduct, much less to citizens with no access to the voting systems; without both cyber and database management system expertise, and unfettered access to database records and computer log files (many of which were destroyed by the actions of the Secretary of State) from the EMS server, the manipulation would be undetectable.
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It is speculated that the software inside the machine was triggered by an internal software program or by an external signal such as through a remote network connection over the internet or via an internal cellular modem (wireless modem) connected to a wireless cellular network that was activated by a cell phone.
The Halderman Report
In 2022, a forensic examination of Georgia’s Dominion voting machines found them to be so riddled with security flaws that it prompted CISA, the agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with protecting the nation’s election system, to issue a security advisory alerting BOEs about the flaws. Click below to review an article "The security analysis of the Dominion ImageCast X" written by Professor J. Alex Halderman who performed the forensic examination of the Dominion ICX machines and presented his findings in what is referred to as The Halderman Report.
Ohio's Voting Machines by County
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ES&S
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25 Counties: Scanned Paper Ballot
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20 Counties: BMD & Scanned Ballot
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Dominion
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12 Counties: DRE & VVPAT
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4 Counties: BMD & Scanned Ballot
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Clear Ballot
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15 Counties: Scanned Paper Ballot
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Unisyn OVA
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8 Counties: BMD & Scanned Ballot
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2 Counties: Scanned Paper Ballot
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Hart Verity
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2 Counties: Scanned Paper Ballot
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Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) touch screen machines at the precinct that record voter selections on a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) roll.
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Ballot Marking Device (BMD) touch screen machines at the precinct that print ballots that are then scanned into an optical scanner
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Optical ballot scanners located at the precinct
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High-speed optical ballot scanners located at the Board of Elections (BOE)
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The Election Management System (EMS) server located at the Board of Elections (BOE). The EMS server is basically a desktop computer that is used, among other things, to tabulate all the votes from the precincts on election night.
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Electronic poll books are considered voting equipment.
