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.
"And we knew that wasn't true. And so we set out to try and find the voting machines to see if we could find them on the internet, and especially the back-end systems that voting machines in the precinct were connecting to to report their results."
Skoglund and his team developed a tool that scoured the internet to see if the central computers that program voting machines and run the entire election process at the precinct level were online.
The three largest voting manufacturing companies - Election Systems &Software, Dominion Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic - have acknowledged they all put modems in some of their tabulators and scanners.
The 35 systems Skoglund's team found represent a fraction of total voting systems nationwide, though he believes they only captured a portion of the systems that are or have been online.
"Once a hacker starts talking to the voting machine through the modem, the hacker cannot just change these unofficial election results, they can hack the software in the voting machine and make it cheat in future elections," he said.
While the company's website states that "Zero" of its voting tabulators are connected to the internet, ES&S told NBC News 14,000 of their DS200 tabulators with online modems are currently in use around the country.
Friday, July 30, 2021
'Online and vulnerable': Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet
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