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Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
Motherboard ^ | July 17th 2018 | Kim Zetter

Posted on 07/17/2018 11:48:53 AM PDT by Mechanicos

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To: BBQToadRibs
the client needs to give them authorized permission on their side of the machine to gain access. Every single time. It’s very controlled.

That's not enough! Once they're in, they're in. It would be way too easy to do what they were hired to do plus some other work, even undo what they did earlier, or add something new that won't be noticed for a while, if ever.

41 posted on 07/17/2018 2:18:14 PM PDT by libertylover (I'm not arguing with you; I'm just explaining why I'm right and you're wrong.)
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To: Mechanicos

Another wacky conspiracy theory proven true!

(Big win for us “conspiracy wackos”.)


42 posted on 07/17/2018 2:22:27 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Mechanicos

I have always wondered if we could be issued a randomly generated verification number at the time of voting that will be recorded at the time of voting that could be verified publicly so everyone could see their vote and verify it without revealing identity...

I think this is another purpose for block chain technology that could do something similar.


43 posted on 07/17/2018 3:09:55 PM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

1898, 1914, 1923, 1927, 1958 and 1965

LOL well played


44 posted on 07/17/2018 4:23:30 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Mechanicos

Where is Alfred E Sessions?


45 posted on 07/17/2018 4:30:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right.)
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To: Mr. K
IT’S FULL OF IDIOTS WHO DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING

Or is it full of crooks who know exactly what they are doing?

46 posted on 07/17/2018 4:32:44 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Mechanicos

I write software for a living. In fact, I regularly write GUIs (Graphical User Interface) for data acquisition. I echo what other posters have said.

No pure electronic voting, ever. EVER.

Where I vote (in Alabama) is still the best method in my opinion.

Handed a large card-stock paper ballot.
Fill in the circle of the candidate you vote for.
Optical scanner reads the votes and tabulates.
After polls close, vote totals are retrieved from scanner. No calling in.
All ballots are available to be quickly re-ran through machines to verify vote totals.
In case of malfeasance, votes can easily be counted by hand.

It should be a crime to have any remote electronic access to any vote tabulating machine.


47 posted on 07/17/2018 5:05:43 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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I don’t see how the firmware, chips and software could possibly be contentiously audited to ensure that no one has introduced code to cheat.

True, but as I mentioned previously, it would take an army of dedicated techs working on each individual machine. Possible, yes; probable, no.

48 posted on 07/18/2018 6:21:09 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: BBQToadRibs

The control is a matter of policy - not capability. The fact that these machines had external control software installed while being used for voting is criminal - or at least it should be.

Felony-level criminal.


49 posted on 07/18/2018 6:24:23 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: Pollster1

Why not both?

actually it probably is both- there must be crooks that know they are screwing the USA, but they can’t succeed without the useful idiots.


50 posted on 07/18/2018 7:47:03 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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