No Fraud, Big Backlash: A Cyber Firm’s Puerto Rico Voting Machine Test Sparks Ire
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A cybersecurity firm hired by the ODNI to test a Puerto Rico voting machine found significant weaknesses but no evidence of vote tampering. After sharing their findings, Trump allies pressured against Mojave Research, including allegations of liberal ties, leading to a stop-work order and the contract’s non-renewal. The episode exposes internal government divisions over election claims and efforts to fix voting-system flaws.
- When they didn’t find fraud while testing a voting machine for the Trump admin, this cyber firm faced a wave of backlash CNN
- Voting machines have real security issues. Researchers worry they could be weaponized by election deniers. politico.com
- Analysis: Existing law bars federal agents from polls, despite new threats to election integrity wabe.org
- Voting machine researchers say federal work abruptly ended after Trump ally pushed back on their findings Nextgov/FCW
- Trump Administration Halted Voting Security Contract After Researchers Found No Evidence of Election Fraud Межа. Новини України.
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