>>8043894I helped set up part of the center for election services at a college in Kennesaw years ago, and from what I've head, their IT was and is a fucking joke. if there were evidence, no one would have known how to monitor or collect it. they thought the person who ran the heartbleed patch was a "hacker" lol.
they were running elections on little Dell GX520 Windows XP machines with no physical security, no VPN or firewalling, cases not locked, exposed USB ports, etc. the election servers basically never got patched or updated, and the kid who was hired to make sure things were turned on didn't know what half the equipment they had racked did. access was directly exposed to the internet because each of the 159 counties needs at least one person to manage their IT to send results but no one wants to travel and the counties didn't want to pay to staff, so it was a miracle it worked in the first place.
of course, that doesn't mean tampering definitely happened, just that there wasn't any meaningful offensive testing or auditing, so you can't assign confidence to them being secure. and no, having met many dedicated volunteers and election workers across the state, I wouldn't say any given process was the result of any intentional political sabotage. doing big stuff is hard, and doing it at the scale of a state without the knowledge, alignment, or resources needed is a major feat.
I do think that once it became an issue, the state's lawyers quickly figured out how much evidence there was and of what and built their defense around that. everything gets wiped after the results are sent, so there wouldn't have been much outside of what the FBI got copies of.