{"id":4338,"date":"2020-11-17T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2020-11-17T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:48:16","slug":"electronic-voting-machines-and-their-software-qa-with-cybersecurity-expert-bryson-bort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/electronic-voting-machines-and-their-software-qa-with-cybersecurity-expert-bryson-bort\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic voting machines and their software: Q&#038;A with cybersecurity expert Bryson Bort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"4339\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/electronic-voting-machines-and-their-software-qa-with-cybersecurity-expert-bryson-bort\/wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1046\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine-229x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine-783x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine-783x1024.jpg 783w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine-768x1004.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wikipedia-ballot-scanner-machine.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><figcaption>An ES&amp;S DS850 8000-ballot-per-hour central-count ballot scanner. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Election_Systems_%26_Software#\/media\/File:ES&amp;S_DS_850.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Internet is rife with theories about voting machines and how they can be hacked. Various self-proclaimed smarties about computing have expounded theories as to how the Democrats changed votes. These theories have gotten shared widely online and even have made their way into a few media outlets. The media has reviewed and cast doubt on the claims being made about election software being compromised (e.g.,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-factcheck-cnn-not-evidence-vote-fraud-idUSKBN27P2TI\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/11\/13\/the-hammer-scorecard-dennis-montgomery-vote-fraud-conspiracy-joe-arpaio\/6269315002\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2020\/11\/14\/fact-check-dominion-voting-machines-didnt-delete-switch-votes\/6282157002\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). But since some folks on the right are hesitant to trust the media, I decided to consult with an expert who works for a right-leaning think tank \u2014\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scythe.io\/about\/bryson-bort\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson Bort<\/a>. He knows cybersecurity and elections software&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/society-and-culture\/electronic-voting-machines-and-their-software-qa-with-cybersecurity-expert-bryson-bort\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is rife with theories about voting machines and how they can be hacked. Various self-proclaimed smarties about computing have expounded theories as to how the Democrats changed votes. These theories have gotten shared widely online and even have made their way into a few media outlets. The media has reviewed and cast doubt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-reform","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-17Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}