Under the White Hat partition of the U.S. military at U.S. Army Cyber Command headquarters in Fort Gordon, Georgia, cyber security analysts began noticing election irregularities early in the day. Approximately 35% of vote tabulators—electronic devices into which ballots are fed and counted—experienced what the Maricopa County Elections Department called a ―technical hiccup,‖ which persisted for several hours.
Unbeknownst to election officials, White Hats had undercover boots on the ground as the ―glitch‖ forced voters to cast ballots elsewhere or forego voting altogether. At least one machine had active Wi-Fi and was connected to the internet, a Cyber Command source told RRN. ―Tabulators that mark ballots shouldn’t be Wi-Fi capable. It makes them susceptible to outside tampering and intrusion,‖ he said. Cyber Command, he added, has ―obtained‖ a compromised machine and is evaluating ―suspicious‖ connection logs.
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