Changes

According to the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' in October the Secretary of State’s office was responsible for weakening the Dominion system’s defenses, disabling password protections on a key component that controls who is allowed to vote.  Just days before the early voting started, on October 12th, according to the AJC, Raffensperger’s office “pushed out new software to each of the state’s 30,000 voting machines through hundreds of thumb-drives that experts say are prone to infection with malware.”

According to the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' in October the Secretary of State’s office was responsible for weakening the Dominion system’s defenses, disabling password protections on a key component that controls who is allowed to vote.  Just days before the early voting started, on October 12th, according to the AJC, Raffensperger’s office “pushed out new software to each of the state’s 30,000 voting machines through hundreds of thumb-drives that experts say are prone to infection with malware.”

 

According to the AJC article, the features that make this new software vulnerable to hacking would “not be detected without an audit after the election.” The software has a feature where voters verify their selections as a paper ballot and then the ballot is fed into an optical scanner by an election official. For reasons that are difficult to understand, the scanner doesn’t record the text of the ballot. Instead, it reads “an unencrypted quick response” or QR barcode that is indecipherable to the human eye.  That feature makes it possible either to tamper with individual voting machines or to infiltrate the state’s central election system. In theory, hackers could alter the barcodes to change votes and there would be no way to detect the changes.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20201023190339/https:/www.ajc.com/politics/election/in-high-stakes-election-georgias-voting-system-vulnerable-to-cyberattack/TBFT5U5BH5AZZPFPZTP3LFQ7RY/</ref>

According to the AJC article, the features that make this new software vulnerable to hacking would “not be detected without an audit after the election.” The software has a feature where voters verify their selections as a paper ballot and then the ballot is fed into an optical scanner by an election official. For reasons that are difficult to understand, the scanner doesn’t record the text of the ballot. Instead, it reads “an unencrypted quick response” or QR barcode that is indecipherable to the human eye.  That feature makes it possible either to tamper with individual voting machines or to infiltrate the state’s central election system. In theory, hackers could alter the barcodes to change votes and there would be no way to detect the changes.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20201023190339/https:/www.ajc.com/politics/election/in-high-stakes-election-georgias-voting-system-vulnerable-to-cyberattack/TBFT5U5BH5AZZPFPZTP3LFQ7RY/</ref>

===Eric Coomer===

===Eric Coomer===

 

In September and October 2020,  Dominion director of Strategy and Security [[Eric Coomer]] personally was in Georgia to make a “critical software change” to all Georgia's 30,000 Dominion voting machines “without adequate testing or certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission”.<ref>http://archive.is/3Bcv5</ref><ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/dominions-trump-hating-executive-eric-coomer-performed-suspicious-update-georgia-week-early-voting-started/</ref>

In September and October 2020,  Dominion director of Strategy and Security [[Eric Coomer]] personally was in Georgia to make a “critical software change” to all Georgia's 30,000 Dominion voting machines “without adequate testing or certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission”.<ref>http://archive.is/3Bcv5</ref><ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/dominions-trump-hating-executive-eric-coomer-performed-suspicious-update-georgia-week-early-voting-started/</ref>