Mr. Hursti has spent the past 15 years trying to draw attention to the weaknesses in America’s voting systems. Last month, he was featured in an HBO documentary called “Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections,” about far-reaching security breaches in multiple U.S. elections that he says have gone unfixed. He warns that both the American political establishment and the public are far too complacent. “Once you understand how everything works, you understand how fragile everything is and how easy it is to lose this all,” Mr. Hursti says in the film.
In 2005, a concerned Florida election supervisor asked the Finnish data-security expert Harri Hursti to hack into one of the state’s commonly used voting machines to test its vulnerability. The verdict wasn’t reassuring. By modifying just a few lines of code on the machine’s memory card, Mr. Hursti says, he could change the results of a mock election. That same model, he adds, will be among those used in the 2020 elections.
Diebold, the manufacturer of the voting machines which Hursti so easily hacked, also went after Ion Sancho, the courageous Election Supervisor who had allowed us to hack his county’s Diebold system in Florida. Mr Sancho was perilously close to losing his job.
Then California’s Secretary of State commissioned the top computer scientists at UC Berkeley to investigate our vote rigging hack, which was exposed by our hacker, Harri Hursti. The special report from UC Berkeley states: “Mr. Hursti’s attack on the AV-OS is definitely real. He was indeed able to change the election results by doing nothing more than modifying the contents of a memory card.”
In 2009, Diebold sold its voting machine business to Dominion Voting, which services 28 states, including most battleground swing states, and provides essentially the same machines which were used in 2005.
(A spokesperson for the machine’s current vendor, Dominion Voting, says that these weaknesses were fixed in 2012, but Mr. Hursti says that he has tested the new version and found the updates insufficient.) The Recent ‘glitch’ of 6,000 votes mysteriously appearing for Biden in one county alone, says otherwise.
We note that on Election Day in Detroit in 2016, more than 80 voting machines malfunctioned. An audit later allegedly revealed there was no evidence of fraud, .
Hursti showed that in the very same Dominion Votingmachines, any one inserting what appears as a standard memory card to convey data out of the voting machine, could, at the same time, be introducing a script determining how many votes would be stolen from Trump to Biden and doing so seamlessly so that only a hand recount could determine if there was fraud
It may well be that the Michigan electoral officials needed extra time, as did Pennsylvania, to generate hand ballots to go with the thousands of fake votes introduced into the machines...in other words, they found themselves generating votes before they had the ballots in hand. It would not be surprising if they were waiting to get additional ballots to then hand forge in order to match up with any anticipated recount by hand.
At any rate, Time Magazine tells us https://time.com/5809745/kill-chain-documentary-hbo-review/
"If you don’t want to know how easy it is for a canny individual—or a malicious state actor—to hack into the electronic voting technology used in the U.S., don’t watch Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections.
In this unnervingly persuasive HBO documentary, directors Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels and Sarah Teale marshal cyber-security experts, statisticians and lawmakers to expose cracks in the system that could easily allow hackers to affect voting results.
The filmmakers’ sources also include actual hackers, among them an individual who breached Alaska’s voting system in 2016 just to see if he could. Although he explains in an on-camera interview (his face obscured to protect his identity) that he declined to alter any data, he says he could have sold his “backdoor” access for millions.
If that’s not enough to scare anyone who cares about democracy, there’s plenty more. One of the central figures of Kill Chain is election-security expert Harri Hursti, who explains, with clarity, just how vulnerable American voting systems are. (Hursti also appeared in the 2006 documentary Hacking Democracy, from the same team of filmmakers.)
Although voting machines are supposed to be kept in secure facilities, Hursti found a widely used model for sale—on eBay. The vendor had hundreds of them, and he was selling them for around $79 each.
“There's no reason to expect that the voting machines today are fundamentally more secure than previous generations used in the U.S., which have been shown to have tremendous vulnerabilities,” Alex Halderman, the Michigan security commission co-chair and a professor of computer science and engineering
