Judge to decide if report on voting machines can be public | Technology

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg has so far been unwilling to make the report public, saying she's concerned that it could be exploited by bad actors. After Cross mentioned Raffensperger's press release, Totenberg said, “I'm disappointed that it got raised this way, in a way that only makes things more challenging."

Vincent Russo, a lawyer for the state, told the judge he'd just become aware of the secretary's statement. At this point, Russo said, keeping the report private “may be doing more harm than good.”

While the state's lawyers and Dominion have seen the report, no one in the secretary of state's office had seen it, Russo said. He asked Totenberg if he could share the redacted version with the secretary of state, saying that hadn't been clear from the judge's previous statements.

Totenberg said she always assumed the state's lawyers were going to identify people who needed to see the report. She said it seemed to her that the state's lawyers didn't seem to want “to give it that level of acknowledgement.”

The judge said she needs to see a redacted version of the report before deciding whether it can be released. Cross said he could provide a version redacted by Halderman that was previously provided to the state's lawyers.

Halderman, a staunch advocate for hand-marked paper ballots who has long argued that the ballot-marking machines are vulnerable, said the access he had to Georgia’s machines allowed him to identify for the first time specific vulnerabilities and the ways they could be exploited.