California’s secretary of state approves Los Angeles County’s new publicly owned computerized voting system — a first of its kind for the nation — but is requiring modifications to address serious security and technical problems identified in testing.
A subsidiary of one of those companies, Election Systems and Software of Omaha, Nebraska, was blamed by an outside audit for sloppy system integration that left 118,000 names off printed voter roles in Los Angeles County during the 2018 primary.
California has among the nation’s most rigorous election equipment certification regimes and requires independent forensic testing including attempted hacking. In the case of the VSAP system, testers found a series of problems that made its system vulnerable to unauthorized access. Their report said"seals, locks, labels and sensors can all be bypassed" on the system, and the ballot box can be opened without detection — meaning ballots can be inserted or removed.
“We are confident that the county can meet or exceed the requirements,” Sam Mahood, a spokesman for Padilla, said via email. “It's faulty at best and dangerously naive at worst,” she said of Padilla's certification. “LA taxpayers should be getting a system that far exceeds commercially available systems."
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