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Mind? you don't really want to be using that old software for your voting? >> just think about it. we have four nation states who are going to be attacking our election in 2020. and we have computers running windows 7 that are helping to run those elections, administer them, not do the voting machines themselves. and we're talking about 10,000 jurisdictions and the majority of them running outdated software that seems like a pretty big security risk. >> is this unique to the election industry? or is this a big problem or a lot of people have old software? >> well, i think that when we're talki...
Election. if we want to make sure our vote counts, we better make sure we have the right software to do it. >> what's the fix? i guess folks can buy a patch, but i guess we're talking about a lot of money for every one of these computers? >> right. during the meeting we were at, secretary of state for kentucky estimated this could cost up to $300 per machine, and these are counties that might already be strapped for cash. however, microsoft was also there and they said they're working on a solution. they want to make sure that windows 7 is not a barrier to election security. so, hopefully, we'...
Welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." foreign interference may not be the biggest security threat to the 2020 election. the federal election assistance commission held an elections security summit yesterday to discuss concerns about the voting systems that are going to be used. this follows an "associated press" report last month which found that the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots. program voting machines tally votes and report counts. the reason for the concern is that microsoft is going to stop providing free...
The whole message from those key officials was, nothing to look at here, no big deal. we just don't have to worry. we're taking care of everything. just a few days later there was an exhaustive analysis indicating that thousands and thousands of outdated voting systems that were using windows 7 were being used all over the country. and the characterization from experts were those systems were ripe for hacking. >> you have now called the new intelligence pick by donald trump, congressman ratcliff, the least qualified ever. what are your concerns about him and where does that go? >> ari, let me ...