Help America Vote Act HAVA Funding

ERepublic ^ | 9-19-20109 | Tenable

[spintreebob]

States may uise the 2018 HAVA funding to: 1 -Replace voting equipment with equipment tat utilizes a voter-verified paper record. 2- Post-election audit system 3- Upgrade election related computer systems.

4- Facilitate cybersecurity training for state chief election official’s office and local election officials.

5- Implement cybersecurity best practices 6- Fund other activities that improve election security

Cyber security was a significant issue in 2018, but not as it relates to voting machines. Voting machines are closed systems and simply collect data. The data transfers that take place before and after the actual collection of the vote – registration, poll book generation, tabulation, results reporting - are where vulnerabilities lie.

The top barriers:

Lack of Funding Inadequate availability of security professionals Increasing Sophistication of Threat

Recommendation #4 Establish standardized cyber security training modules – using standardized tools – across all state agencies, higher education, and the National Guard. This will increase the qualified talent pools available to state government.

[spintreebob]

Just excerpts. Go to link for quotes of the law and commentary.

My commentary is that the history of HAVA is that it has contracted based on political connections to Chris Dodd, Joe Manchin and extablishment others. They sub-contract to the cheapest bidder ... guess who.

So far, the contractors have only shown interest in the money, not in quality IT. In GA Gov Kemp made Gary Cooley the scapegoat. But the security breach was built by incompetents who knew neither US election law and customs, nor IT.

now they are drooling over more money.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks spintreebob. And the reparations law will have a clause requiring spotting some percentage to make up for imaginary past voter intimidation, poll taxes, etc.

[MrEdd]

I am opposed to electronic ballots in any form whatsoever, and I have always pushed and will always push for physical biometricaly verifiable vote ballots.

Let there be purple thumbs or DNA samples.