President Trump: Kick the Machines to the Curb
LACAG and other Louisiana advocacy organizations, including Citizens For Election Integrity, We The People Northwest Louisiana, We The People Bayou Community, Convention of States, Louisiana Power Coalition, Louisiana Republican Assembly, Women’s Republican Club of New Orleans, and numerous others have been persistently raising the alarm about the acute vulnerabilities of ALL computer-based voting systems, including and especially Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs).
The best cyber security experts in the world have recommended outlawing their universal use once and for all. Alex J. Halderman, arguably the world’s foremost expert on election security, told the Louisiana Voting System Commission that BMDs have serious vulnerabilities that enable highly sophisticated cyber hackers to remotely access the voting machines and switch votes from one candidate to another:
“Universal use of BMDs is a major security challenge because if they are hacked they can misprint or alter votes. They are a large, attractive target to hackers, making attacks more likely.” Halderman added that “The attackers that I worry about are the attackers like foreign governments, and very sophisticated criminal gangs, the ones we read about in the newspapers who commit cyber fraud and manipulation… foreign governments have attempted to penetrate these machines and we have every reason to believe they will in the future.”