Posted on 11/16/2020 5:24:57 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Friday, August 26th (2016), during a meeting at the Illinois State Board of Elections
THE KEY TESTIMONY BEGINS AT 6:11
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by Sharon Meroni,
(Sep. 1, 2016) — On Friday, August 26th, during a meeting at the Illinois State Board of Elections, the Vice President of Engineering for Dominion Voting, Dr. Eric Coomer*, was asked if it was possible to bypass election systems software and go directly to the data tables that manage systems running elections in Illinois. His response was, “Yes, if they have access.”
Bypassing the election systems software means whoever has access can potentially manipulate the vote without many risks of detection. So the question needs to be asked, who has access to these data tables?
We asked Dr. Coomer that question. Dr. Coomer replied, ‘Vendors, election officials, and others who need to be granted access.’
This is explosive information. Dr. Coomer’s statement is an admission that various vendors, election officials, and others have access to the back end data tables that permit bypassing the operating system’s configuration. It is notable that when someone accesses these systems from a data table, their actions are not logged by the system; thereby making detection much more problematic. This contradicts Dr. Coomer’s assurances that the system is secure.
Our letter to the Illinois State Board of Elections on August 17th specifically requested the Board to answer the following questions:
At the ISBE level:
Who has access to software produced by vendors?
Has the ISBE had an expert examine the computer code?
How is access granted and documented?
What role does the ISBE play in monitoring the GEMS software used in each election jurisdiction?
As is typical for the Board members at the Illinois State Board of Elections, with its rich history in treating citizens concerned about election security with disregard and disrespect, the Board refused to say a single word regarding Defend the Vote’s concerns expressed during ‘public comments’. Only 4 of the 8 members of the Board bothered to stay to hear our comments. To date, the Board has failed to provide answers to the questions asked in our letter.
And that is not all! The Board asked Dr. Coomer if he had any comments. In direct response to the Illinois State Board, Dr. Coomer made the following statement:
“We are constantly assessing different threat models against all of our systems we have fielded across the US and internationally as well. Due to the certification environment that we are in, no we are not allowed to do routine updates without having to go through re-certification efforts, but we do routinely give guidance on how to best secure systems and also going back again, to the final mitigation against all of this is a robust auditing canvasing process which all of our jurisdictions have implemented.”
Dr. Coomer failed to mention that Illinois does not have any auditing procedure for absentee mail-in ballots. In 2014, mail-in paper balloting was 8% of the vote. Across Illinois, many election jurisdictions are working to increase this percentage! Illinois does not require any justification when audits show a vote discrepancy. They simply correct the total votes that are reported to the new totals found in the audit. Further, it is not a blind audit. Auditors know what vote totals were reported before they begin the post-election re-count. So much for Coomer’s robust auditing process…
Dr. Coomer’s statement brings to light a very serious issue all voters should understand. Voting systems must be re-certified each time they make changes to the hardware or software. Recertification is an expensive and time consuming process. What Dr. Coomer told the Board is that Dominion Voting does not go back for recertification of software when threats to their code are discovered. Rather, they rely on post-election audits and providing advice to election jurisdictions about security. I have reviewed all of the recertification documents produced by Dominion, and I do not recall any software adjustments for security purposes.
This is the reality of the security of your vote. Software systems that count and record the vote across Illinois and throughout the USA are not updated to address security problems, and even if they were, the software can be completely bypassed by going to the data tables that drive the systems.
I am not an expert on how other states audit the vote after an election. I do know that in Illinois, at least 8% of the vote never see any post-election audit. At least that amount of the vote is vulnerable to be manipulated without much chance for detection.
*Dr. Coomer held senior management roles with both Sequoia and Smartech. Before coming to Dominion Voting, Dr. Coomer was Senior Information Services Manager of Smartmatic Corporation and Vice President of Research and Product Development for Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. Wikipedia
No. What they update is the software to perpetrate voter fraud.
What company counts the votes for elections WW,
AND is a major supplier of COVID tests WW???
hint: this thread
Voting systems must be re-certified each time they make changes to the hardware or software.
Just how hard can this be. If(mark=candidate1) then candidate1=candidate1+votefraudcorrection
Why do we have to have *any* machines counting the votes??
We are talking about counting. Adding up the votes for a few candidates from individual precincts, typically less than 500 votes per precinct. And then adding them together. This is not hard. OK, maybe give the county clerks a calculator. If we cannot do even that without computer software, we’re lost.
I’m not against putting the final results in a spreadsheet and then on the internet, but this should be done only to verify the hand counts, and of course to make the information public.
We are talking about counting. Adding up the votes for a few candidates from individual precincts, typically less than 500 votes per precinct. And then adding them together. This is not hard.
Do you remember the Democrats' Iowa app that couldn't count votes?
Bypassing election systems software means whoever has access can potentially manipulate the vote without risks of detection.
BTW, who has access? Dominion's Dr. Coomer replied, ‘Vendors, election officials.... and others who are granted access.
Only vendors, election officials, and others who are granted access? All innocent and just a coincidence, of course.....cackle.
Bypassing election systems software means whoever has access can potentially manipulate the vote without risks of detection.
BTW, who has access? Dominion's Dr. Coomer replied, ‘Vendors, election officials.... and others who are granted access.
Only vendors, election officials, and others who are granted access? All innocent and just a coincidence, of course.....cackle.
We went through so much effort to go to all paper ballots.
But what good is that, if we let a computer do the counting??? And then, you want to look at the paper ballots two weeks later!? That’s ok, that gives us enough time to feather in just the right amount of fake ballots we need to make then numbers match.
Counting should be done by hand, on election night, by all precincts. If the party hack morons don’t know how to count, then hire accountants if we have to.
Has anybody even taken possession of these voting machines? Or are they being manipulated as we speak?
There’s always admin logs for every login and action. These voting machines, as well as the backroom servers that they communicate with, need to be subpoenaed and seized immediately before those logs get wiped, with a cloth.
I’m with you. there is no reason to have machine counting at the precinct level, and there is no good reason to separate the envelope from the ballot with absentee ballots. It’s called a stapler.
My new Dominion car sucks. Drove it to the store and it already has 489,000 miles on it.
Yup they used the same setup used to steal Florida in 2012 for Obama. Who knew Romney was elected!! Someone needs to tell him.
Still using Windows XP? Intentionally?
I do hope Trump’s team has acquired a sampling of popular voting machines used in the challenge states, and are currently determining and documenting hackability or outcome manipulation for each.
Too bad President didn’t do a ban on using Dominion earlier this year for elections. I mean specifically mention Dominion and their software as well.
Wonder if PDJT knows much about another Canadian Deep State software player, this from Obama’s reign:
“The Obama administration awarded the U.S. subsidiary of CGI Federal a $93.7 million contract to construct the website healthcare.gov. But that figure was only part of the $678 million total in health care services contracts that was awarded to the company.”
“CGI Federal is a wholly owned subsidiary of CGI Inc., partnering with U.S. federal agencies to provide mission-critical solutions in defense, diplomacy, intelligence, healthcare, environment, homeland security, justice, treasury and more.”
https://www.cgi.com/us/en-us/federal/about-cgi-federal
“CGI Inc., also known as CGI Group, is a Canadian multinational information technology consulting and systems integration company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.”
https://www.cgi.com/en/overview
And more unintended negative consequences from progressives’ great ideas!
Before this election, Dominion Voting Systems wasn’t on a typical Joe Six-pack’s radar.
Now, they’re on EVERY Joe Six-pack’s radar. Strongly.
And THIS Joe Six-pack wants to know: What ELSE should be on my radar?
p flashback 2016
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