An investigation into potential election tampering has been launched in Philadelphia after several memory sticks and a laptop used to program voting machines were stolen from a city warehouse, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
Many details surrounding the stolen technology in Philadelphia remained unclear Wednesday, including how the equipment was taken, whether there are any suspects, and whether any machines had been compromised.
His statement did not address the stolen memory sticks, which are used to program the machines in advance of an election, including setting the design of the ballots.
The memory sticks are encrypted to prevent tampering, and are matched with individual voting machines, according to a spokesperson for the vendor, Election Systems & Software.
"Upon programming, these encryption keys 'marry' the USB with the machine, and if placed in another machine, it will cause an error and the machine will not work."
Philadelphia has 3,750 of the ExpressVote XL touchscreen voting machines, and elections staff have begun programming them so they are ready to use on Nov. 3.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, officials found several voting machines with incorrect seal numbers, however Custodio said the discrepancies were likely due to a logging error in recording the numbers - adding that the machines "Will be thoroughly examined, wiped, and tested just to be sure."
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