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Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
motherboard ^ | Jul 17 2018, 8:00pm | Kim Zetter

Posted on 07/17/2018 4:19:37 PM PDT by vannrox

The nation's top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them.

In a letter sent to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) in April and obtained recently by Motherboard, Election Systems and Software acknowledged that it had "provided pcAnywhere remote connection software … to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006," which was installed on the election-management system ES&S sold them.

The statement contradicts what the company told me and fact checkers for a story I wrote for the New York Times in February. At that time, a spokesperson said ES&S had never installed pcAnywhere on any election system it sold. "None of the employees, … including long-tenured employees, has any knowledge that our voting systems have ever been sold with remote-access software," the spokesperson said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; crime; dnc; duplicate; election; election2018; election2020; electionfraud; fraud; jamescomey; lisapage; oregon; peterstrzok; robertmueller; ronwyden; soros; votefraud; votemachines; voterfraud
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1 posted on 07/17/2018 4:19:37 PM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox

Soros ?


2 posted on 07/17/2018 4:21:47 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: vannrox

So the voting machine maker...

Gave a DEMOCRAT access to the voting machine software. Enabling him to revise, control and re-tabulate the votes.

The company responded that they only gave this access to a small number of Democrats.

And why is this not front page news?


3 posted on 07/17/2018 4:21:54 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3671643/posts

Some 42 comments at this thread if anyone cares to scan thru them.


4 posted on 07/17/2018 4:22:10 PM PDT by deport
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To: butlerweave

“ES&S needs to stop stonewalling and provide a full, honest accounting of equipment that could be vulnerable to remote attacks,” he told Motherboard. “When a corporation that makes half of America’s voting machines refuses to answer the most basic cyber security questions, you have to ask what it is hiding.”


5 posted on 07/17/2018 4:24:06 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: vannrox

Go back to using paper like in the old days. I don’t see any other way really.

Authentic ID would help as well.


6 posted on 07/17/2018 4:28:19 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: vannrox

Where is Alfred E Sessions?


7 posted on 07/17/2018 4:29:05 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right.)
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Rigging of voting machines by leftists is and has been a far greater danger to our republic that the silly russians, I assure you.I am very familiars with even rino republican rigging the machines in Williamson county north of Austin in the republican presidential primary. Ask people in Round Rock how that went. Go up to Philadelphia and ask how Trump got zero in precinct after precinct and in Madison Wisconsin. Go down to Montgomery county Alabama and explain that statistically impossible anomaly against the great Roy Moore. It was all electronic theft. You talk about hacking— what a joke. If we ever have an attorney General we can get to the bottom of it.


8 posted on 07/17/2018 4:29:16 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.ith the solar)
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To: vannrox

But through the intervention of God Almighty all those voter machines did not work as planned.


9 posted on 07/17/2018 4:32:59 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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The states who have backdoor access to the collection servers need to identify WHO, Precisely, made that decision.

So we can hang them by the neck until dead.

And we need to know WHICH states still have not created a air gap.


10 posted on 07/17/2018 4:39:18 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: raiderboy

No matter who the principal threat is, those who open the door need to be hanged.


11 posted on 07/17/2018 4:40:35 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: tennmountainman

“...Where is Alfred E Sessions?...”
Probably under Soros’ table doing oral favors again for money....whadda sorry azz POS and mistake the Keebler Elf has been.
Like Roberts, they likely have dirt on Sessions...BIG Time...and have threatened both of em with some terrible things.


12 posted on 07/17/2018 4:40:45 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: vannrox
The statement contradicts what the company told me and fact checkers for a story I wrote for the New York Times in February.

what ?
He (the writer )knew this and wrote the story about it in Feb 2018.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-hacker-proof-voting-machine.html

Plus, how does a "fact checker" check this without looking at a voting machine ? ?
No mention of fact checker(that i could see) in the Feb article.
13 posted on 07/17/2018 4:46:29 PM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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The company responded that they only gave this access to a small number of Democrats.

They need to be sued, convicted and imprisoned.

14 posted on 07/17/2018 4:47:46 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Include purple fingers.


15 posted on 07/17/2018 4:56:33 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Mariner

We need voter identification supported by auditable paper trail. Now, we are wide open to total fraud. We know it and ignore it. The russian buying a face book advertising under free speech is laughable.


16 posted on 07/17/2018 5:04:03 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.ith the solar)
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To: vannrox

Simple fix, outlaw ALL electronic voting machines and vote counting machines in the US. Eliminates the hacking and the fraud.


17 posted on 07/17/2018 5:10:05 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: vannrox
This isn't actually news. When my daughter was in college over fifteen years ago, she worked for the newly created KSU Center for Election Systems for the state of Georgia at Kennesaw University.

An electronic computing device uses software. They had remote access into every voting machine and a Diebold rep to troubleshoot any problems. She said it was wild to see voting machines show millions of erroneous votes with a program bug or even someone just playing around.

Her job was to coordinate with a novice tech deployed to each voting location to provide a physical connection so that they could remotely certify each device was working properly.

https://politics.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-shift-elections-work-house-away-from-kennesaw-state/JAazLxUB0SODnPMqEGNWdJ/

So, what's the big deal this long after the fact?

18 posted on 07/17/2018 5:13:37 PM PDT by higgmeister
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To: vannrox
Back to basics...


19 posted on 07/17/2018 5:14:58 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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And they say Russia’s collusion is bad. Now we know why Hillary got so many votes they were put in by vote tampering Democrats.


20 posted on 07/17/2018 5:35:13 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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