Cybersecurity experts are urging California’s top elections official to conduct an audit of ballots cast in the recall election to ensure no problems occurred. The recent disclosure of binary images of the Dominion Voting Systems’ election management system boosts the risk of nefarious action against the state’s election system, the group of experts warned in a Sept. 2 letter to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber. The software versions shown in the images are not the same ones as those used in California, but the differences are relatively minor, they added. “The release materially elevates threats to the trustworthiness of the ongoing California recall election and to public trust in the election. We urge you to address the issue by taking one critical action–a statewide risk-limiting audit (RLA) of trustworthy paper ballots—which can substantially mitigate these threats,” Mustaque Ahamad, a professor at Georgia Tech’s school of cybersecurity and privacy, Philip …