BUREAU OF ELECTIONS PUBLIC HEARING
BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS MEETING
August 16, 2024
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·1· ·Women for Conservative Values, all of which I would like to
·2· ·emphasize represent several hundred thousand voters
·3· ·throughout the state of Michigan.
·4· · · · · · ·I'm here today on behalf of an individual in our
·5· ·organization who worked early voting days for the primary
·6· ·election.· She worked on Saturday, July 27th and Wednesday,
·7· ·July 31st.· And the experience that she had on those days
·8· ·were that the first thing in the morning on those two days
·9· ·the -- the statewide electronic poll book crashed, was
10· ·unavailable so the polls could not begin functioning.· And
11· ·here are some notes that she submitted to her clerk upon
12· ·review and feedback.
13· · · · · · ·EPB outages Saturday and Wednesday.· This is the
14· ·elephant in the room.· And this -- I'm saying "I," but it's
15· ·not myself.· This is on behalf of my colleague. I
16· ·experienced -- this is the elephant in the room. I
17· ·experienced these two outages, have heard and read about
18· ·this in the press, and heard that there was a 'fix' as in
19· ·correction or repair.
20· · · · · · ·However, whenever voting equipment is tied to the
21· ·Internet, there are serious security risks.· Citizens are
22· ·concerned with due cause that our early voting processes are
23· ·dependent on CrowdStrike and real time Internet connection
24· ·and data transfer.· I have also heard of recent EPB outages
25· ·due to CrowdStrike in other states, Ohio and Arizona.· This
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