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🇺🇸🗳️ The presence of wireless internet at polling sites in the US midterms is not evidence of malfeasance. Most voting machines are unable to connect to Wi-Fi, according to experts

from the 2020 US presidential election that Wi-Fi at polling locations meant voting machines were connected to the internet and therefore susceptible to hacking.

, a computer science professor at Princeton University."The presence of a Wi-Fi network does not indicate that the voting machines themselves are connected to it, or even have the ability to connect to it." Aurora Matthews, a Verified Voting spokesperson, said the claims online are"disinformation that has the potential to create confusion for election officials and voters."

 

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“We found over 35 [voting systems] had been left online and we’re still continuing to find more,” Kevin Skoglund, a senior technical advisor at the election security advocacy group National Election Defense Coalition, told NBC News.

according to a team of 10 independent cybersecurity experts who specialize in voting systems and elections. While the voting machines themselves are not designed to be online, the larger voting systems in many states end up there, putting the voting process at risk.

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