dfe and yepyoukno are sanewashing [1] and oversimplifying the administration's actions by ignoring the self-interested and malicious motives behind them.
Avoid getting so distracted by the penetration test angle that we overlook the part where none of the government's findings about our right to vote are supposed to be secret from the public, never mind the manufacturer of the voting machine.
If we assume for a moment that the administration's motives in this case are overwhelmingly good, at best what we're left with is NOBUS [2][3] for our voting machines. Now a moment has passed. Ask yourself why you do not attribute malicious motives to the people who want (worse than) NOBUS for our voting machines.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanewashing