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> |