Key points
- Evidence obtained showing major security flaws in electronic voting systems: Gabbard
- Trump signs executive orders to probe Krebs for his role in the 2020 elections
- Krebs was fired by President Trump
ISLAMABAD: United States Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has claimed that the country’s electronic voting systems are vulnerable to hacking.
Some sections of media reported that during a Cabinet meeting, she said that her office has obtained evidence showing major security flaws in the country’s electronic voting systems — vulnerabilities she claims could allow hackers to flip votes.
Vulnerable to exploitation
“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections,” Gabbard told the President and officials in attendance at a cabinet meeting.
Local media reported that her claim came just a day following US President Donald Trump signed executive orders directing the Department of Justice to investigate Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), for his role in the 2020 election.
Krebs was fired by Trump after publicly declaring the 2020 election as secure and rejecting allegations of widespread fraud.
