The scenario was fake but the vulnerabilities were real, a scrimmage designed to test the abilities of federal and local law enforcement to work together and respond to a nation-state attack.
“It’s really only since 2016 that these sort of real-time scenarios have been happening,” said Eddie Perez, global director of technology development for the Open Source Election Technology Institute , a nonprofit that conducts election technology research. “Contingency planning and tabletop exercises that help state and local election officials to be more prepared for the unexpected are a good example of how they are ‘upping their game,’" Perez said in an email. “They’re an essential part of protecting public trust in the 2020 elections.”
The hackers even made fake voice calls to impersonate the local election officials’ superiors. Then they told the officials to reset the voting machines, focusing on those without paper backups, spreading chaos and confusion.
Oh we are so screwed.
This is laughable .. it sounds like Fakenews NBC and cnn all over again :)