Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 579 Filed 08/15/19 Page 41 of 153 2016 U.S. Election, Vol. 1: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure with Additional Views, 116th Cong., 1st Session (2019) (partially redacted) (“SSCI Report”). The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concurred with the NASEM regarding the susceptibility of electronic voting machines to external manipulation in its report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.34 Relying on testimony from Dr. Alex Halderman and other experts, the SSCI noted that “researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that it is possible to exploit vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines to alter votes.” (SSCI Report at 40.) A computer virus could steal votes from one candidate and assign them to another or could stop the machine from accepting votes altogether. (Id.) According to the Senate Committee report, DRE machines “can be programmed to show one result to the voter while recording a different result in the tabulation.” (Id. at 42.) Therefore, the SSCI report called for states to discontinue using DREs, which “are now out of date.” (Id.) The Senate Committee further echoed these findings regarding voter registration systems. After holding hearings, reviewing intelligence, and hearing testimony from state election officials and U.S. Government authorities responsible for election security, the Committee also concluded that voter Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Vol. 1: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure with Additional Views, 116th Cong., 1st Session (2019) (partially redacted) (“SSCI Report”). The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which was released to the public on July 25, 2019, “sought to determine the extent of Russian activities, identify the response of the U.S. Government at the state, local, and federal level to the threat, and make recommendations on how to better prepare for such threats in the future.” (Id. at 3.) The redacted SSCI Report was presented at the July 26th hearing marked as Defendant’s Exhibit 3, but Defendants did not move for its admission into evidence. 34 41

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