Less than a week before Georgia’s runoff elections are due to determine control of the US Senate, the inventor of the electronic bar-code scanner warned Georgia legislators that their voting procedures were less secure than a grocery-store checkout line.
“What is sad about this is we’re not even performing at standards expected at grocery stores,” Jovan Hutton Pulitzer told the state Senate’s subcommittee investigating allegations of vote fraud, according to PJMedia.
“… If you complained, [the store] would have to audit it and make it right. But we don’t do this in elections?” Pulitzer said.
He lambasted Atlanta-area election officials for putting up a fight in providing ballots from the Nov. 3 presidential to be audited, accusing them of “playing hide and seek with the ballots”.
Pulitzer said he could easily determine whether vote fraud occurred if he were given two hours with the ballots.
But most shockingly, he warned that he already had proof of the machines being susceptible to hacking—because he had instructed his team to do so in Fulton County using a publicly accessible wi-fi network.
“At this very moment at a polling location in the county, not only do we have access through the devices to the poll pad—the system—but we are in.
The game is on! Let’s do this. https://t.co/LzH37OeP5b
— JovanHuttonPulitzer ™ #JovanHuttonPulitzer (@JovanHPulitzer) December 30, 2020
He said they had documented that the network was both sending and receiving data, which “should never happen.”
Pulitzer declined to disclose the specific location “because every location is being checked” but said it was a standing building, not a mobile voting site.
