At a LaRose campaign stop in March 2024, CCVO personally spoke with the Secretary about the CISA advisory and asked if he was concerned about the Dominion machines in Ohio having security issues. He responded that the Georgia Dominion machines were a different configuration from what we have in Ohio and provided a point of contact (POC) within the SOS Public Integrity Division Director if we had further questions.

 

​Our correspondence the POC was cordial and although he responded to our inquiries, he often evaded answering our direct questions, instead giving stock talking points that emphasized how safe the machines are in Ohio and why we can trust them. When pressed about providing CCVO proof that no machine in Ohio contained wireless modems, he was unable to provide a copy of the report from the Voting System Testing Laboratory (VSTL) that supposedly performed the testing and instead told us to contact the VSTL directly. The VSTL however told us that they could not provide a copy of the report since the vendor (Dominion) owned it since they paid for it and then sent us back to the SOS Public Integrity Division for a copy. In his last email to CCVO, the POC said that he would forward our request to the SOS Public Records Request office and provided the names of two individuals who would get back withy CCVO "shortly." To date, we have not received a satisfactory response to the simple question of whether Ohio's voting machines contain wireless modems. Until that proof is made available to the public, we must conclude that they probably do and therefore the machines cannot be certified for use in elections.