{"id":384050,"date":"2018-11-07T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-evidence-shows-texas-senate-race-is-vulnerable-to-manipulation-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T08:55:07","slug":"new-evidence-shows-texas-senate-race-is-vulnerable-to-manipulation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-evidence-shows-texas-senate-race-is-vulnerable-to-manipulation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence Shows Texas Senate Race Is Vulnerable to Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWatchers have observed that there is a voting systems computer, in the central counting station \u2026 and it had wi-fi connectivity, and emails were being sent from that computer,\u201d election security advocate Laura Pressley told Truthout in an exclusive phone interview, raising the alarm about vote-counting security in Dallas County, Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pressley, an engineer with a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics, worked for years as a device engineering manager in the semiconductor industry. She\u2019s the founder of a non-partisan group called True Texas Elections that is monitoring elections all across the state \u2013 focusing especially on electronic voting machines and tabulators.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pressley is not the only one concerned about wireless internet networks being anywhere near a voting machine or tabulator. Texas state <\/span>law<\/span><\/a> specifically prohibits it, mandating that \u201cNo voting system is ever connected to the internet at any point \u2014 either when votes are being cast or when they are being counted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s because wi-fi and internet connectivity are some of the easiest ways for malware to be introduced into a voting machine or tabulator. Once introduced, that malware could change election results on that voting machine, or on other voting machines infected via memory cards. The malware could then make its way into the vote tabulating system itself, potentially infecting the main election management system\u2019s computers. If a wi-fi signal is <\/span>in the tabulating room<\/span><\/i>, the malware could get into the system that counts the votes quickly and easily, bypassing all of the other steps, and rapidly change the results of an entire county.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why, Pressley says, \u201cWe are very concerned about that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWatchers have observed that there is a voting systems computer, in the central counting station \u2026 and it had wi-fi connectivity, and emails were being sent from that computer,\u201d election security advocate Laura Pressley told Truthout in an exclusive phone interview, raising the alarm about vote-counting security in Dallas County, Texas. Pressley, an engineer with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}