“The abrupt call for a statewide mandated implementation of Risk Limiting Audits less than two weeks ahead of the recall election is premature and in direct conflict with the thoughtful implementation we had planned over the next two years,” Dresner said in a written statement. Jenna Dresner, a spokeswoman for Weber, said Friday that the election systems used in California are secure and the state has launched a pilot program for risk-limiting audits with plans to expand the effort to all counties by 2023. But they argued the public discussion of Dominion products by Mike Lindell, the chief executive of My Pillow and an informal advisor to Trump, was tantamount to a serious breach of election system security. The researchers who wrote to Weber acknowledged California’s strong record on election security. “The release materially elevates threats to the trustworthiness of the ongoing California recall election and to public trust in the election.” “While the software versions are not identical to those used in California, differences are relatively minor,” the group said in its letter Thursday to Secretary of State Shirley Weber. Their request, made just days before in-person voting begins in several counties, threatens to drag California into the tumultuous national debate over election security.
A group of voting security researchers, alarmed by recent disclosure of sensitive election system software by an ally of former President Trump, want California officials to conduct a statewide post-election review of ballots cast in the Sept.
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