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Senators ask voting machine manufacturers if Russia reviews source code

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Two Democratic senators sent a letter to U.S. voting machine manufacturers asking the companies if they allow Russian entities to review the source code of their products. Senators Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., sent the letters to three largest election equipment vendors in the United States: Election Systems & Software, Dominion Voting Systems and Hart Intercivic. The senators said Russian source code review could help that country hack American election technology. Numerous American companies including Cisco, IBM and SAP allow the Russian government to review their source code to comply with the country’s regulations and gain entry into the country’s markets. “Foreign access to critical source code information and sensitive data continues to be an often overlooked vulnerability. Further, if such vulnerabilities are not quickly examined and mitigated, future elections will also remain vulnerable to attack,” the senators wrote. “The 2018 election season is upon us. Primaries have already begun, […]

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Voting machine manufacturers pushed for cybersecurity information by Sen. Wyden

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Sen. Ron Wyden continued his cybersecurity push on Tuesday, demanding information about security practices and independent audits from six of the largest voting machine vendors in the U.S. and two federal test laboratories. “As our election systems have come under unprecedented scrutiny, public faith in our electoral process at every level is more important than ever before,” the Oregon Democrat wrote to the companies and the labs, a day after urging the U.S. Supreme Court to improve its email encryption. “Ensuring that Americans can trust that election systems and infrastructure are secure is necessary to protecting confidence in our electoral process and democratic government,” he wrote. Wyden contacted Dominion Voting, Election Systems & Software, Five Cedars Group, Hart InterCivic, MicroVote and Unisyn Voting Solutions. The Department of Homeland Security assessed that Russian hackers targeted state election systems but several states dispute that claim. The hacking did not involve vote tallying, […]

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