Submitted by voteearlyday t3_yft3yb in IAmA
voteearlyday OP t1_iu5csqr wrote
Reply to comment by CybaBunnii in We are New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Commissioner Benjamin Hovland of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Today is #VoteEarlyDay and we want to help every voter understand their options to vote early in-person or by mail. Ask Us Anything! by voteearlyday
SEC. TOULOUSE OLIVER: To my knowledge, the machines referred to in this article are no longer in use. Additionally, a "hackathon" type activity does not replicate the real world security measures in place in every polling location in the country that would have prevented you from engaging a voting machine in that type of unfettered way. I consider this post disinformation and respectfully ask that you rethink spreading it.
That being said, for tabulators that are currently in use around the country the security mechanisms to prevent them from being hacked are multifaceted. I'll speak to the NM process, but this looks largely the same in every state: First of all, machines in NM are NEVER connected to the internet. The tabulators are only open, closed, and accessed by bi-partisan teams of poll officials at every level. We have strict chain of custody processes and seal each card slot with a serial numbered tag to ensure there is no tampering or replacement of a memory card at any point. Results are uploaded to air-gapped systems and then shared with our external systems to post results.
aqlu t1_iu67lxd wrote
On a related note, can NM voters verify their vote has been recorded accurately?
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