Democrats accuse anyone questioning the 2020 election of being conspiracy theorists, but a few years ago these same Democrats warned we couldn’t trust our voting systems. DEMOCRATS JOIN CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS IN WARNING OF VOTING MACHINE VULNERABILITIES BEFORE 2020 ELECTION #bias #hypocrisy #2020
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00:00Virginia just stopped using touchscreen computer voting because it's so vulnerable.
00:08We need to look at all the voting machines.
00:10Every secretary of state needs to be, you know, assisted in making sure that they are
00:14not being hacked and attacked.
00:17I continue to think that our voting machines are too vulnerable.
00:20The research has repeatedly demonstrated that ballot recording machines and other voting
00:24systems are susceptible to tampering.
00:26Even hackers with limited prior knowledge, tools, and resources are able to breach voting
00:30machines in a matter of minutes.
00:32In 2018, electronic voting machines in Georgia and Texas deleted votes for certain candidates
00:37or switched votes from one candidate to another.
00:39The biggest seller of voting machines is doing something that violates Cybersecurity 101,
00:46directing that you install remote access software, which would make a machine like that, you
00:51know, a magnet for fraudsters and hackers.
00:53These voting machines can be hacked quite easily.
00:55You could easily hack into them.
00:58It makes it seem like all these states are doing different things, but in fact, three
01:02companies are controlling this.
01:04It is the individual voting machines that pose some of the greatest risk.
01:09There are a lot of states that are dealing with antiquated machines, right, which are
01:14vulnerable to being hacked.
01:16Workers were able to easily hack into an electronic voting machine.
01:19It was possible to switch votes.
01:2183% of American voters use voting machines that researchers have found have serious security
01:31flaws, including back doors.
01:34We know how vulnerable now our systems were.
01:36We know, I know the hackathon that took place last year, where virtually every machine was
01:40broken into fairly quickly.
01:41I actually held a demonstration for my colleagues here at the Capitol, where we brought in folks
01:48who, before our eyes, hacked election machines, those that are not, those that are being used
01:54in many states.
01:55Aging systems also frequently rely on unsupported software, like Windows XP and 2000, which
02:02may not receive regular security patches and are thus more vulnerable to the latest methods
02:07of cyber attack.
02:08In a close presidential election, they just need to hack one swing state, or maybe one
02:12or two, or maybe just a few counties in one swing state.
02:16I'm very concerned that you could have a hack that finally went through.
02:20You have 21 states that were hacked into.
02:23They didn't find out about it for a year.
02:25Right now, we have over a dozen states that either don't have any backup paper ballots
02:31or only have them partially.
02:33You think that our adversaries don't know what those states are?
02:36Of course they know what those states are.
02:38And if we have a close election, in the general election, in a presidential race, and one
02:43state's outwithstanding, and their ballot boxes get hacked into, their elections get
02:49hacked into, we will have absolutely no backup.
02:52Stalin was unconcerned about the vote.
02:55After all, he explained, he said that who voted was completely unimportant.
03:02What was extraordinarily important, in his words, was who would count the votes and how.
03:10It is time to put politics aside and come together to secure the future of our elections.
03:15So whether you're a four-star general, a fourth-grade teacher, or a computer engineer at Foursquare,
03:22this is an issue that unites us.
03:25In at least 40 states, elections are carried out using machines that are at least a decade
03:29old.
03:30And like any technology, they're susceptible to increasing failure with age.
03:34Some state officials have had to turn to eBay to find critical components like dot
03:39matrix printers, decades-old storage devices, and analog modems.
03:45Aging systems also frequently rely on unsupported software, like Windows XP and 2000, which
03:51may not receive regular security patches and are thus more vulnerable to the latest methods
03:57of cyber attack.
03:58In 2016, state election websites in Illinois and Arizona were hacked by intruders who installed
04:02malware and downloaded sensitive voter information.
04:06It is worth fighting for integrity in our election system, which means that they are
04:11free from interference by a hostile or an unfriendly nation.
04:17Let's put the resources into upgrading the state's election systems, because what we
04:22know is this.
04:23There are a lot of states that are dealing with antiquated machines, right, which are
04:29vulnerable to being hacked.
04:31I sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee, and
04:37we receive all kinds of information about the vulnerabilities to our national security.
04:41We are vulnerable in terms of foreign interference with our elections.
04:45It's my understanding that some of the election system vendors have required states to sign
04:50agreements that prevent or inhibit independent security testing.
04:56There's a saying that I'm sure many of you have heard, which is, you know the difference
05:00between being hacked and not being hacked is knowing you've been hacked.
05:07And they are still looking for ways to steal information about voter registration, for
05:15example.
05:17There are some tax experts in Silicon Valley with whom I have met who say that maybe what
05:24they'll do this next time is to really disrupt the actual election.
05:29Shut down the servers that you send results to.
05:34Interfere with the operation of voting machines, because still, too many of them are linked
05:39to the internet.
05:40So we are still very vulnerable.
05:42I mean, I can tell you, in Virginia, when I was governor, I had to replace all the machines.
05:47Because I remember when I first voted, when I went to Richmond and moved down as governor,
05:50I remember I kept voting in the Senate race, kept voting for the Democrat, Republican name
05:54kept coming up.
05:55Three times that happened.
05:56What do you mean kept coming up?
05:57So we had the touch screens.
05:59I was voting for Mark Warner, our senator, and Ed Gillespie's name would light up.
06:03Happened to me three times.
06:04Finally, the fourth time, Mark's name, and I quickly hit vote, and I got out of there.
06:09You know, all the cameras are looking at me like, this guy doesn't know how to vote?
06:11I mean, what's going on?
06:13So then I had an investigation done, and listen to this.
06:16I brought in some technology experts.
06:18They were able to hack into our machines from off-site in about five or six minutes, and
06:24within four minutes, they were able to change a vote.
06:27I decertified all the machines.
06:29Now in Virginia, we have paper ballots.
06:32Forty-three percent of American voters use voting machines that researchers have found
06:40have serious security flaws, including back doors.
06:46These companies are accountable to no one.
06:49They won't answer basic questions about their cybersecurity practices, and the biggest companies
06:56won't answer any questions at all.
07:01Five states have no paper trail, and that means there is no way to prove the numbers
07:08the voting machines put out are legitimate.
07:13So much for Cybersecurity 101.
07:17The vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use election management
07:25systems that run on old software that is soon going to be out of date and ripe for
07:33exploitation by hackers, according to an exhaustive analysis by the Associated Press.
07:43Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Arizona, and North Carolina,
07:52among others, are all at risk.
07:56Even the state of Georgia, which just passed legislation to buy new voting machines, is
08:04on track to buy equipment that suffers from this significant cybersecurity weakness.
08:13Let's say the election is decided by a small percentage.
08:21And people in America don't think that the election was fair.
08:26The effect that would have on our 200-year experiment in self-governance, our democratic
08:35system would take a real hit.
08:40Our elections weren't secure last week, and they sure as heck aren't secure this week.
08:49And anybody who says otherwise is either selling you voting machines or simply has a malicious
08:58intent towards our elections.
09:02At one point in the Intelligence Committee, both sides seemed to agree that no votes were
09:08changed in the 2016 election.
09:14And I said, the experts I talk to say that until you have a forensic analysis of a vote,
09:24until you go in there and scrub the whole system, you can't really say that.
09:30So they're giving these voting machines, specifically the hack, into how successful
09:34were they?
09:35Well, the ongoing record was they hacked within 90 minutes of being in the same space as the
09:44voting machines.
09:45Now, these are not hackers that are actually touching the machines.
09:48They're doing this from across the room on Internet-like connections.
09:52But what it demonstrated, Pedro, is that the machines that we count on to make the basic
09:57connection between the American voter and the election results are vulnerable if they're
10:03in any way connected to the Internet.
10:05And so when you say hacked, what were they able to do once they gained access to the
10:09machines?
10:10Oh, all sorts of things.
10:11They could manipulate the outcome of the vote.
10:13They could manipulate the tally.
10:15They could delete the tally.
10:17And they could compromise the vote in any number of ways.
10:20It was limited only by the hackers' creativity.
10:23Just how vulnerable the machines were, I mean, what we found is that these machines were
10:26purchased by local voting authorities, state and local voting authorities, maybe 10 years
10:31ago.
10:32In many cases, the software and the hardware have not been updated.
10:34So they're as vulnerable as an old laptop that we might have in your home that you no
10:37longer use because it's just so out of date.
10:39And what we found is that the supply chain for these machines is largely unplotted.
10:43I mean, we found parts from China.
10:45We found digital electronic parts from all over the world.
10:47By way of hacking, there's the potential that the actual vote tally could be compromised.
10:51So votes could be changed from this to that.
10:53Or votes could be suppressed.
10:54Votes could be deleted.
10:55Votes could be added.
10:56So you could actually change the tally itself.