Critics Blast Georgia’s Plan to Delay Software Updates on its Voting Machines

David Cross was featured in the AP News coverage of the vulnerabilities in the Dominion Voting Systems equipment used in Georgia’s election system in the wake of Georgia’s plan to wait until after next year’s presidential election to install a software update to address security flaws.

“[Georgia Secretary of State Brad] Raffensperger’s claim that Mitre found no meaningful risk to voters is highly misleading,” said David, who represents some of the voters in a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s election system and who engaged University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman to examine the machines. “Mitre didn’t even examine the voting equipment or software and was told to assume that bad actors can’t access Georgia’s voting system.” 

David said that assumption was invalidated when a computer forensics team hired by former President Trump allies traveled to Coffee County in south Georgia in January 2001, was allowed to access voting equipment, and copied software and data. He added that evidence shows that material was uploaded to a server and accessed by an unknown number of people.

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