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In reply to the discussion: Voting machine company behind so many surprise wins this year raises some questions [View all]moondust
(19,980 posts)13. Jennifer Cohn in 2018.
All electronic vote tallies can be hacked through the internet
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This is because all voting machines must accept electronic input files via a cartridge or memory card prepared on an Election Management (EMS) computer that is itself likely connected to the internet from time to time.
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Moreover, results from the precincts are often transmitted into a central tabulator over a local area network, so that the chain-of-custody of the images is not provable, and images may be manipulated in transmission by network-based attacks.
Central tabulators, in turn, transmit results to online Election Night Reporting Systems, creating another opportunity for internet hacking of voting machine tallies.
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All electronic vote tallies can be hacked through the internet, even if the voting machines themselves are not directly connected to it.
This is because all voting machines must accept electronic input files via a cartridge or memory card prepared on an Election Management (EMS) computer that is itself likely connected to the internet from time to time.
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Moreover, results from the precincts are often transmitted into a central tabulator over a local area network, so that the chain-of-custody of the images is not provable, and images may be manipulated in transmission by network-based attacks.
Central tabulators, in turn, transmit results to online Election Night Reporting Systems, creating another opportunity for internet hacking of voting machine tallies.
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All electronic vote tallies can be hacked through the internet, even if the voting machines themselves are not directly connected to it.
There may also be concern for "back doors" in the software/tabulators created by programmers at companies that support the GOP and their voter suppression tactics.
And by the way...LOOK OVER THERE AT DOMINION!!!! DOMINION!!! LOOK AT THEM AND THEIR VOTER FRAUD!!! DEMOCRATS CHEATING!!! IT'S THEM!!!!
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Voting machine company behind so many surprise wins this year raises some questions [View all]
Roisin Ni Fiachra
Dec 2020
OP
expert on election security Jennifer Cohn has been screaming about ES&S forever
Grasswire2
Dec 2020
#3
"Chinese parts, hidden ownership, growing scrutiny: Inside America's biggest maker of voting machine
NoRoadUntravelled
Dec 2020
#5
Noticed that. Unlikely to be the John Galt born in 1700s & head of the Canada Company. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2020
#66
The "electronic backdoors" that were programed into the machines operating systems were no mistake..
Botany
Dec 2020
#34
ESS has been reporting "surprise Republican upset election victories" since the beginning
DFW
Dec 2020
#11
K&R, Either the US has the worst polling of any developed country on planet Earth or voting is off
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#12
Shocking: didn't we think something was fishy is just these state elections ?
RANDYWILDMAN
Dec 2020
#15
+1, either the US has the worst polling of any developed country on the planet ever or ...
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#74
someone higher up GOP told trump the election was rigged so he was expecting to win but and
certainot
Dec 2020
#19
What was the name of the company that grassley had his sticky fingers in during the 2000 and
niyad
Dec 2020
#25
This company has no media storm. Nobody in the media is talking about them.
Mr. Sparkle
Dec 2020
#40
About fricking time. Should have been done for every election from 2000 til now
judesedit
Dec 2020
#42
and the fact that software patches were installed a few weeks before the election.
AllaN01Bear
Dec 2020
#68