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at 95.) The key to the NAS recommendation is that paper ballots are required for
such audits. The report recommended that voting machines that do not produce
paper audit trails “be removed from service as soon as possible” and that “[a]ll
local, state, and federal elections should be conducted using human-readable
paper ballots by the 2020 presidential election.” (Id. at 80.)
The NAS report also noted several cybersecurity risks regarding electronic
pollbooks and voter registration databases. It detailed concerns about
“unauthorized access to or manipulation of the registrant list” because voter
registration databases are “often connected, directly or indirectly, to the Internet
or state computer networks.” (Doc. 285-1, Ex. 1 at 57.) As an example of the
vulnerability of electronic voter databases, the report listed the server error that
left 6.5 million voter records in Georgia exposed for six months in 2016-17. (Id. at
58.) The NAS report listed a number of ways in which cyberattacks on electronic
voter registration data or e-pollbooks could disrupt elections: 1) by altering voter
registration databases used to generate pollbooks; 2) by altering the record of
which eligible voters have actually voted; and 3) by a “denial-of-service” attack,
which would shut done voting altogether. (Id. at 72.) Thus, the NAS report
recommends that “[j]urisdictions that use electronic pollbooks should have
backup plans in place to provide access to current voter registration lists in the
event of any disruption.” (Id.)
Dr. Halderman most recently testified before the U.S. Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence that prominently featured his testimony in its report,
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