[Lazamataz]

A technology glitch that halted voting in two Georgia counties on Tuesday morning was caused by a vendor uploading an update to their election machines the night before, a county election supervisor said.

I am a computer developer, a very senior one, in a tech lead position in the company I work for.

YOU DO NOT EVER LOAD AN UPDATE TO THE PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT A DAY BEFORE A MAJOR EVENT! EVER!

Any company will have a tested and bulletproof platform established, vetted, tested a 1000 ways, and then you will have what we call an "Awareness Period" in which NO UPDATES ARE PERMITTED.

This is an obvious red-flag of machine fraud.

[mad_as_he$$]

“YOU DO NOT EVER LOAD AN UPDATE TO THE PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT A DAY BEFORE A MAJOR EVENT! EVER!”

Thanks for saying that. I have been telling folks that for the last week.

[MortMan]

I work in aerospace software (over 30 years now), and it is illegal to install unapproved software in a non-experimental aircraft (and even experimental has strict rules),

No way this “last minute patch” BS is legit.

[Sarcasm Factory]

As a practical matter, the problem is getting the courts and further the general public to accept this behavior as the huge red flag it is to technicians, worthy of a ruling that actionable fraud unquestionably exists even if the actual smoking gun cannot be found. Perhaps it'd be useful to evoke an image of a skeevy mechanic sneakily fiddling with the brake lines in a bus with a conniving expression just before someone arrives to drive away that vehicle to pick up a load of unsuspecting passengers. It's very suspicious and abnormal. Replace with the analogy of your choice.

This is an obvious red-flag of machine fraud.

[Chgogal]

Unbelievably!