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{{quotebox|"Chinese manufacturers can be forced to cooperate with requests from Chinese intelligence officials to share any information about the technology and therefore pose a risk for U.S. companies, NBC News analyst Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI for counterintelligence, said. That could include intellectual property, such as source code, materials or blueprints. There is also the concern of machines shipped with undetected vulnerabilities or backdoors that could allow tampering."<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/chinese-parts-hidden-ownership-growing-scrutiny-inside-america-s-biggest-n1104516</ref>}}

{{quotebox|"Chinese manufacturers can be forced to cooperate with requests from Chinese intelligence officials to share any information about the technology and therefore pose a risk for U.S. companies, NBC News analyst Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI for counterintelligence, said. That could include intellectual property, such as source code, materials or blueprints. There is also the concern of machines shipped with undetected vulnerabilities or backdoors that could allow tampering."<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/chinese-parts-hidden-ownership-growing-scrutiny-inside-america-s-biggest-n1104516</ref>}}

In January 2020 Dominion [[CEO]] John Poulos testified before Congress that Dominion machines are composed of parts manufactured in China from "screen on the interface down to the chip component level."  Under questioning from Democrat Congresswoman [[Zoe Lofgren]], Poulos claimed, "there’s no option for manufacturing of those in the United States."<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-uses-chinese-parts/</ref>  The [[Chinese Communist Party]] endorsed [[Joe Biden]] for president in the 2020 presidential election.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-china-biden-russia-trump-election-2020-8</ref><ref>https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198289.shtml</ref>

In January 2020 Dominion [[CEO]] John Poulos testified before Congress that Dominion machines are composed of parts manufactured in China from "screen on the interface down to the chip component level."  Under questioning from Democrat Congresswoman [[Zoe Lofgren]], Poulos claimed, "there’s no option for manufacturing of those in the United States."<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/news/dominion-uses-chinese-parts/</ref>  The [[Chinese Communist Party]] endorsed [[Joe Biden]] for president in the 2020 presidential election.<ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-china-biden-russia-trump-election-2020-8</ref><ref>https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198289.shtml</ref>

Sworn testimony by an analyst under of the 305th Military Intelligence declared about the 2020 presidential election reads,

Sworn testimony by an analyst under of the 305th Military Intelligence declared about the 2020 presidential election reads,

{{quotebox-float|"this affidavit presents unambiguous evidence that Dominion Voter Systems and Edison Research have been accessible and were certainly compromised by rogue actors, such as [[Iran]] and [[PRC|China]]. By using servers and employees connected with rogue actors and hostile foreign influences combined with numerous easily discoverable leaked credentials, these organizations neglectfully allowed foreign adversaries to access data and intentionally provided access to their infrastructure in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent one in 2020. This represents a complete failure of their duty to provide basic cyber security. This is not a technological issue, but rather a

{{quotebox-float|"this affidavit presents unambiguous evidence that Dominion Voter Systems and Edison Research have been accessible and were certainly compromised by rogue actors, such as [[Iran]] and [[PRC|China]]. By using servers and employees connected with rogue actors and hostile foreign influences combined with numerous easily discoverable leaked credentials, these organizations neglectfully allowed foreign adversaries to access data and intentionally provided access to their infrastructure in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent one in 2020. This represents a complete failure of their duty to provide basic cyber security. This is not a technological issue, but rather a governance and basic security issue: if it is not corrected, future elections in the United States and beyond will not be secure and citizens will not have confidence in the results."}}

governance and basic security issue: if it is not corrected, future elections in the United States and beyond will not be secure and citizens will not have confidence in the results."}}

===Vulnerabilities===

===Vulnerabilities===