Please see our letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of British Columbia, in which we request that Chief Electoral Officer Verma use authority under the Election Act to require all ballots cast in the 2026 B.C. Provincial Election be counted by hand in front of scrutineers.
![A clip from an Al Jazeera article from Nov 2024 that reads "Ract Check: Was Elon Musk's Starlink used to rig the US election? [...] No -- voting equipment is not typically connected to the internet."Fact Check of the Fact Check: Election machinery connects to the internet through other pathways at different stages in the process, providing opportunities for systems to be compromised.
Teardowns of voting and tabulation equipment have revealed inactive Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or cellular modems. Machines compromised at the hardware level can have those vectors of compromise re-enabled.
Hackable cellular modems in election machinery and firmware/ software installed or updated on this equipment can all be potential points of attack.
The need to connect vulnerable election management systems (voter registration databases, election night reporting systems) to internal cellular networks creates exploitable internet-facing points of attack even when core systems are believed to be isolated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o3syolcwxhsjc5nb3vvnnsxl/bafkreia2iyqpsc7krjbymtdg65epcpp4lz6lskaiwfbnpfray7ro3rhyey)
