Georgia’s new electronic voting system is vulnerable to cyberattacks that could undermine public confidence, create chaos at the polls or change the results on Election Day.

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Computer scientists, voting-rights activists, U.S. intelligence agencies and a federal judge have repeatedly warned of security deficiencies in Georgia’s system.

Password protections are now disabled on a key component that controls who is allowed to vote.

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Days before early voting began, Raffensperger’s office pushed out new software to each of the state’s 30,000 voting machines via thumb drives that experts say are prone to infection with malware.

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Officials tell voters to verify their selections on a paper ballot before feeding it into an optical scanner. But the scanner doesn’t record the text that voters see; rather, it reads a QR barcode that is indecipherable to the human eye.

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Tampering with individual voting machines or by infiltrating the state’s central elections server, hackers could systematically alter the barcodes and change votes.

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Texas rejected Georgia's Dominion equipment, saying its examiners encountered “multiple hardware issues” and could not certify that it was “safe from fraudulent or unauthorized manipulation.”

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