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Over the course of six years, Election Systems and Software sold voting machines with remote access software to “a small number of customers.” The company admitted this in a letter to a federal lawmaker, and the letter was obtained by Vice. Earlier this year, the company denied selling machines with remote access software. From the article:

“ES&S is the top voting machine maker in the country, a position it held in the years 2000-2006 when it was installing pcAnywhere on its systems. The company’s machines were used statewide in a number of states, and at least 60 percent of ballots cast in the US in 2006 were tabulated on ES&S election-management systems. It’s not clear why ES&S would have only installed the software on the systems of “a small number of customers” and not all customers, unless other customers objected or had state laws preventing this.”

What’s the big deal with remote access systems? The lawmaker to whom the company sent its letter said that using such systems  “is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.”

Full story at Vice.

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