Posted on 07/29/2021 10:25:16 PM PDT by bitt
A team of election security experts used a “Google for servers” to challenge claims that voting machines do not connect to the internet and found some did.
It was an assurance designed to bolster public confidence in the way America votes: Voting machines “are not connected to the internet.”
Then Acting Undersecretary for Cybersecurity and Communications at the Department of Homeland Security Jeanette Manfra said those words in 2017, testifying before Congress while she was responsible for the security of the nation’s voting system.
So many government officials like Manfra have said the same thing over the last few years that it is commonly accepted as gospel by most Americans. Behind it is the notion that if voting systems are not online, hackers will have a harder time compromising them.
But that is an overstatement, according to a team of 10 independent cybersecurity experts who specialize in voting systems and elections. While the voting machines themselves are not designed to be online, the larger voting systems in many states end up there, putting the voting process at risk.
That team of election security experts say that last summer, they discovered some systems are, in fact, online.
“We found over 35 [voting systems] had been left online and we’re still continuing to find more,” Kevin Skoglund, a senior technical advisor at the election security advocacy group National Election Defense Coalition, told NBC News.
“We kept hearing from election officials that voting machines were never on the internet,” he said. “And we knew that wasn't true. And so we set out to try and find the voting machines to see if we could find them on the internet, and especially the back-end systems that voting machines in the precinct were connecting to to report their results.”
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let’s ask those same reporters what information they now have... they’re investigators, right??
And, 😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴. “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot(s)”. Mark Twain.
I hope that some Freepers can send this article, though somewhat old, to GOP congresspersons who are working on the issue of computer/election machinery security.
This should be raised every time some Dem or leftist or media so-called “journalist” says that the 2020 election computers were perfectly secure.
My email system is basically crippled so I can’t do much in terms of sending items to most people.
Any system can be defeated. The more you know about it, the easier it is to defeat it. It’s a sham. Voting should be 100% transparent. The ballots should be counted at the precinct using analog, not digital, equipment. The results tabulated in front of the voters who want to watch, and posted on the doors of the precinct and photographed for the whole world to see. No slipping in ballots after the fact. No USB drives sent to the clerk’s office.
Mail in ballots just make it so much easier to cheat. That’s very analogue cheating. Digital cheating of course could be very easy too. Just log into the admin and change the settings, or alter the database, or slip in a code to flip votes. 1000 different things are possible. Connect them to the internet is just more exposure.
People use their mouse to copy/cut/paste. But you could do the same thing using a keyboard without the mouse. Same rules apply. Many ways to cheat. I am really tired of this nonsense that elections are secure. They haven’t truly been secure for at least 100 years. Al Capone used the old fashioned method of just intimidating voters. Beat one or two guys who didn’t vote your way and everyone else in line falls in line. Simple, really.
Bottom line: were they connected to the internet and who had control over that connection?
Freakin’ Pence!! Grrr...
Last winter, my grandson tested positive for the covid virus, playing on a basketball team, the whole team tested positive. All games were cancelled for a month until all tested clear.
In that time, my grandson’s parents tested positive, as did his 8 yr old brother.
All were not sick... just bum for a few days. That is 4 individuals who had the covid and were not sick to speak of. The mandatory testing was from the basketball team coach. Otherwise, they would not know they had it.
To add to this, my grandson’s grandmother was in the hose also, with final stages of cancer. She tested positive also. She was not told she tested positive and when asked how she felt, she said, “oh, I think I have a cold”.
Now I know some died from this. I also know there are deaths every winter from colds and flue that turns into serious whatever, and kills.
But biden and company are using this to control... and don’t believe the number they give out for deaths... it’s not all virus related deaths, but they want you to think it is.
Chinee hack guyz votee foh Yoo so bad foh commie Tlump go dump ah so Bi-den chinee win bigly.
No go boat check numbah won plick!
Not only did DJT get screwed over by voter fraud, so did members in the House and Senate. We took all three branches and that must be all audited and proven for us to have a future as a free country.
Once you have been lied to about something as important as this, then you have to wonder how much more have you been lied to about.
Another question might be asked.....how many voting systems in total were there at the time of the election?
The PCR test for CoVID was retired last week because it did not distinguish between the flu and CoVID.
You should only consider a t-cell antibody test for latent, lasting natural immunity, designed by God.
Or make sure the machines are out of alignment or use bleed thru paper and sharpies. Any thing that sends the ballot to “adjudication” so a democrap can flip your vote after the fact.
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