The state does not have any means of ensuring the necessary security protocols of the vendor David Cross, attorneyThe most maligned components of Georgia’s election systems – voting machines and online voter registration – were almost entirely managed by private companies, prompting concerns from election security experts. This introduced significant security concerns about both foreign actors attacking the election system with malware or about a “political insider” potentially introducing their own coding that could alter the results of an election without detection, according to the plaintiffs. But the state is continuing its contract with PCC to manage the voter registration system and the My Voter Page. “The [election vendor] decides whether or not to mess with the election … Interestingly enough, [Georgia] wrote them a check to do it. The election system that Georgia currently uses has a component called the Gems database.

Source: The Guardian August 01, 2019 06:00 UTC