Election officials are scrutinizing top voting system vendors for potential foreign ownership, demanding more transparency after revelations of a Russian oligarch’s majority investment in an election data firm used by Maryland.
Election officials in North Carolina and Maryland are scrutinizing top voting system vendors for potential foreign ownership, demanding more transparency after revelations of Russian penetration into 2016 election systems and a Russian oligarch’s majority investment in an election data firm used by Maryland.
Facing national scrutiny and a legally-mandated deadline of Dec. 1 to decertify its current paperless voting machines, which security experts say could be more vulnerable to an electronic attack and lack an auditable paper trail, the North Carolina State Board of Elections earlier this month set a Friday noon deadline for the nation’s top voting system vendors vying for the bid to disclose more details about their private ownership structure.
In mid-June the state requested the vendors, Election Systems & Software , Hart InterCivic Inc., and Clear Ballot, disclose “any owners or shareholders with a 5 percent or greater interest or share in the company, any subsidiary companies and the vendor’s parent company.” “Since 2011, Hart has been owned by HIG Capital... [b]ased in Miami,” wrote Steven C. Sockwell, vice president of marketing for the Austin-based firm, in an email.
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