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All the electronic election systems are certified for use by the US Election Assistance Commission. They are then typically certified by the states for use in their own elections. If the systems are unsound in certain critical respects, the entire certification regime is called into question. It’s noteworthy that the EAC, through NIST, has been working on a revised set of standards for the last couple of years. These new standards implicitly indicate that the pre-existing assessment and certification methodologies were inadequate. This has been stated explicitly by some specialists in the field.
Unless Dominion (and other vendors) concealed certain functionality in their software from examiners, (by supplying edited code or documentation, for example) it seems clear that the clusterfuck will be laid at the door of government bureaucracy, for which there are never consequences. It will be “just one of those things that no one could have foreseen,” with a new round of legislation and regulations to follow.