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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using DREs, which “are now out of date.”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.
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