[FRIAM] Election theft conspiracy theory

[Prof David West]

In the 1990s, I served on a "Blue Ribbon Committee" that was advising a consortium of Midwest states (WI, MN, IA, SD) reviewing responses to an RFP for voting machines. The most notable item in the RFP was a requirement for a mechanism that would allow the head election official to "correct" vote tallies when "necessary." The mechanism had to bypass the normal audit trail.  All of the proposals included such a feature and 'security' was little more than a password.

Of course, I never saw the code behind the machines that were eventually purchased, but I always suspected that a clever hacker could exploit that feature if, in fact, it was actually implemented. Because of that I have always given, "grain of salt" credibility to claims of voting machine-based fraud.

davew


On Thu, Nov 21, 2024, at 9:37 AM, glen wrote:
> • I looked around a bit but couldn't find the code they say is easily 
> accessible on GitHub. Maybe I just missed it.
>
> • It's fine to suggest that having the software allows it to be 
> modified such that it could add a ballot. But we need the 
> update/install mechanism. Was it sideloaded or did it use a standard 
> update and the modification was included upstream? I'm too ignorant of 
> how the tabulation machines work to know how plausible such an attack 
> is.
>
> • Why fake bullet ballots? It seems like whatever templating software 
> is used, it would be just as easy to vote straight ticket. But maybe 
> there is some issue given state differences? Maybe it's easier to grep 
> for Trump than it is for Republican? Plus, there's all those 
> initiatives and non-partisan offices.
>
> The rest seems reasonable enough for Harris to file a challenge. I 
> would. Apparently the deadline in NC is tomorrow?
>
> On 11/20/24 14:30, _ Bruno W wrote:
>> Anyone interested in double checking any of this or look at different statistics.
>> I think it would be good to check that voter preference does correlate with voting machine vendor.
>> I was able to get data from Michigan, have not looked beyond there yet.
>> But the data will need to be reformatted to be useful...
>> https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
>
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