Posted on 02/12/2022 8:44:02 AM PST by Enlightened1
A judge is withholding the release of an audit report of Dominion voting machines in Georgia. Now the federal government and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has inserted itself into the case and is asking the judge to delay the report longer.
We reported on this case previously. Per our report a week ago:
A federal judge is being urged to release a report that, despite the secrecy surrounding it, appears to indicate there are potential flaws in the Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment used in Georgia.
“The public deserves to know the context of J. Alex Halderman’s claims and his testimony regarding the 2020 election,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said last week in calling for the document to be released, the Washington Examiner reported.
“Georgia voters face an extreme risk that [ballot marking device]-based attacks could manipulate their individual votes and alter election outcomes,” Halderman, a University of Michigan computer science professor, said about the report last year, according to the Daily Beast.
Now the government is getting involved. According to the Washington Examiner:
A federal agency is reviewing a so-called secret report on alleged vulnerabilities in Georgia’s voting equipment.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an arm of the Homeland Security Department, is assessing the fresh doubts being cast on the security of Dominion Voting Systems and is asking a judge to hold off on ordering the release of the report authored by Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan, which could have implications for election technology used in states across the country.
“Such premature disclosure increases the risk that malicious actors may be able to exploit any vulnerabilities and threaten election security,” the CISA said in a court filing Thursday.
Halderman, an expert for plaintiffs in a long-running lawsuit seeking to get Georgia to ditch electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots, was granted access to Dominion voting equipment in Fulton County for 12 weeks and produced a 25,000-word “secret report” that has been filed under seal, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican official who has vehemently defended the integrity of the 2020 election in the face of fraud claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies, has criticized Halderman and called for the report’s release, insisting that media reporting about it are sowing distrust ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Raffensperger said in a statement last month that the report is “not an objective, academic study by a non-biased actor.”
We’ve reported on the Dominion machines used in the 2020 audit across the country numerous times. In a recent article, we pointed out that the machines likely are not ‘hardened’ as is required of many machines used by the federal government.
But hardening is the activities taking place before the machines are put in use. We don’t know what the results of the Georgia audit are or what audit activities were performed of the machines.
For some reason, Dominion is reluctant to allow experts to take a forensic look at their machines. They are suing to prevent this from occurring in Pennsylvania currently.
What happened to “Democracy Dies in Darkness” ??
I thought that the Federal Govt. had no say in elections.
I really wish they would make their minds up (/s).
That's true, but it depends on which party controls the Federal Government.
IF we can ever get out of this mess, there needs to be a lot of “fixin’” so that it can never happen again.
(what are the chances of either happening... :^P)
Potential flaws. That’s the understatement of the century.
Brad Raffensperger now ‘supports’ the release because he knows that it will never happen. The Government will cover its tracks. Raffensperger wants to give the ‘appearance’ that he is fight for transparency for the next election.
As long as we have the Dominion Voting System, the validity of any election in Georgia is in doubt in my mind.
Someone should just leak it.
Due to the questions posed by the report on Dominion voting machines and general use by states it will be impossible to assure a fair election in 2022. Therefore the mid terms are canceled.
Surely there is another Seth Rich somewhere . . .
“Untimely” means “before we get to use them to steal the next election.”
Didn’t work out well for Seth.
You misunderstand. The machines are perfectly secure; that’s why there is a big risk if vulnerabilities identified in this report are made public. (huh??)
“… “Such premature disclosure increases the risk that malicious actors may be able to exploit any vulnerabilities and threaten election security,” the CISA said..”
Translation: We can’t let the cat out of bag!
Perhaps a well-off individual or outfit will offer a reward.
We should not be able to present proof of election fraud because the proof -
may threaten election security".
“What happened to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’??”
Well I understand your point, but feel compelled to repeat that the USA is not and never was a “democracy,” and the Washington Times tagline is a false premise. However, as far as a Constitutional Republic, as our nation was founded, it has been dying a slow death for a very long time and was finally killed when the Democrats, RINOs, Big Tech, Big Business and the media stole the 2020 election and coronated Pedo Joe as POTUS. JMHO.
But, again, I agree with your sentiment.
It’s not my slogan. Tell the Washington Post.
What is the criminal Raffensperger trying to preserve? His 2020 fed election is already UNLAWFUL for ballot harvesting and failure to retain election materials for 22 months. He can’t save that. DHS has had 2 years to investigate the machines. Now it’s become obstruction of justice instead of an ‘investigation’ of foreign states.
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