Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 579 Filed 08/15/19 Page 37 of 153 primarily on severe security vulnerabilities uncovered during the review.” (Doc. 387-3 at 3.) And Mr. Finley oversaw the rollout in dozens of California counties of paper, hand completed ballot systems including optical machine scanning and tabulation along with a verifiable paper audit trail. (Id.; see also, Declaration of Nathan Woods, Doc. 510-2.) Similarly, Candace Hoke, who offered testimony in support of the Coalition Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motions (discussed more fully below in Section IV), was part of a team of election security experts advising Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in 2007 regarding vulnerabilities in its DREs. Secretary Brunner’s Evaluation and Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards and Testing (“EVEREST”) initiative – which examined a newer version of the AccuVote DREs than Georgia uses – found that vulnerabilities in the voting system’s security and reliability were easily exploitable by an attacker under election conditions. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, EVEREST: Evaluation and Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards and Testing (Dec. 2007) at 103. Following the report, the Ohio Legislature eliminated Ohio’s electronic voting machines. In their 2019 preliminary injunction submissions, Plaintiffs offer additional declarations from other prominent cybersecurity election technology experts. Additional expert declarations filed and testimony of note considered here came from Dr. Andrew Appel, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he served as Department Chair from 37

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