Posted on 11/28/2020 4:05:06 PM PST by rustyweiss74
A U.S. Navy veteran, data scientist, and PA poll watcher alleged this week that 47 USB cards used during the state’s election have gone missing. He believes that as many as 120,000 votes cast in the election should be called into question.
Griff: "Meanwhile the president wants a legal battle in Pennsylvania. A poll watcher and U.S. Navy veteran from Delaware County PA gave testimony at a hearing Wednesday in Gettysburg that he witnessed irregularities and fraud firsthand."
"47 USB cards are missing. And they are nowhere to be found. Those cards, I demanded that the — they didn’t update the vote live time. They only updated it about once every two or three hours. I demanded that they update the vote so I could see what the — what the result was. And it was 50,000 votes."
Griff: "Unclear exactly what or if the Trump team will file next in regards to these allegations."
fox news is finally catching up?
I wouldn't know because I quit watching on Nov. 4th.
Is his former position in the Navy relevant to his testimony?
This type of writing is just horrible.
Ga. runoff coming up-2 senate seats. Do you think our observers will have any problem observing?
But I would not expect Fox News or any other alleged pretend "news" organization to actually do some real reporting.
Not only does today's "news media" not do any actual reporting on stories, but they actually run stories that as much as declare "we didn't report a single word on this story, and we don't care! FU readers!"
I guess this isn't really a new thing. HL Mencken once wrote of Baltimore reporters sitting in the bar for lunch and literally making up stories of whole cloth! Nothing new.
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These are the same people who made Watergate sound like the greatest crime in history.
Someone is getting fired at NeverTrump News.
Fox News must be trying to get “their audience” back.
First question: why use these?
Whoever dreamed up the idea of using USB sticks/cards is in on the voter fraud scheme. These things can be stolen, hacked, and duplicated.
Huh? Is Fox reporting this?
I wouldn’t know because I quit watching on Nov. 4th.
Yes they are reporting this. Went to their web page using the headline..!!!
There is nothing inherently wrong with using USB sticks/cards. There are any number of ways to make sure that the cards themselves are not altered in transit. Here's a quick example that I came up with right off the top of my head.
Let's say the card ends up with a file on it that contains all the vote data. There is a cryptographic tool that you can use to generate a 'hash' of that file. The 'hash' is a humnan-readable string of hexidecimal digits. This can be saved separately, and possibly printed on the envelope that will contain the card. This has can also be transmitted separately, or given to multiple individuals, and can be used to validate the accuracy of the data on the card. If the has on the card is not the same as the hash on the envelope, the card is segregated.
Here's a quick example of using a hash to see if a file has been altered...
## The following is the original file. It is the Project Gutenberg version of ## the King James version of the bible. $ ls -l total 4844 -rw-r--r-- 1 amp amp 4959549 Nov 28 20:30 The_Bible-KJV.txt ## This is the hash generated via the 'sha256' program. $ sha256sum The_Bible-KJV.txt 6d1c5625cad6b6f619bd8b5cb5e77ea20dcf052082743f27bc8c8be2fb7e8a55 The_Bible-KJV.txt ## Now I make a copy of that file. $ cp The_Bible-KJV.txt The_Bible-KJVa.txt ## I check the hash of both files, and they show as being identical $ sha256sum The_Bible-KJV.txt The_Bible-KJVa.txt 6d1c5625cad6b6f619bd8b5cb5e77ea20dcf052082743f27bc8c8be2fb7e8a55 The_Bible-KJV.txt 6d1c5625cad6b6f619bd8b5cb5e77ea20dcf052082743f27bc8c8be2fb7e8a55 The_Bible-KJVa.txt ## I edit the copy... $ vi The_Bible-KJVa.txt ## The following is a listing of the first 3 lines of each file. ## Note only difference is the first line starts with "T" in the first ## and "t" in the second. $ head -3 The_Bible-KJV.txt *This King James' Bible is the SECOND Project Gutenberg Version* This 10th edition should be labeled biblea10.txt or biblea10.zip ****This edition is being officially released on Easter 1992**** $ head -3 The_Bible-KJVa.txt *this King James' Bible is the SECOND Project Gutenberg Version* This 10th edition should be labeled biblea10.txt or biblea10.zip ****This edition is being officially released on Easter 1992**** ## Now, lets check the hash again... $ sha256sum The_Bible-KJV.txt The_Bible-KJVa.txt 6d1c5625cad6b6f619bd8b5cb5e77ea20dcf052082743f27bc8c8be2fb7e8a55 The_Bible-KJV.txt 2cedfa1ddd401af877a03c9f9e84f675c89f86a3474372b2e45b0e777dd88c21 The_Bible-KJVa.txt ## Note that even the tiniest of changes to the file generates a completely different hash. ## You'll also note below that the two files are still exactly the same size, yet ## produce much different output because if that difference of a single character. $ ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 amp amp 4959545 Nov 28 20:44 The_Bible-KJVa.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 amp amp 4959545 Nov 28 20:42 The_Bible-KJV.txt |
None of the above is rocket science to anyone who knows anything about security. Not only can you generate a hash for each individual file on the card, but after doing so and saving the resulting list of hashes, you can hash that resulting file as well, so that if any individual file is changed that overall has will fail as well. You can print, save, email and otherwise disseminate these hashes so everyone involved will have confidence in the data.
None of the above is hard to do, and quite frankly I would be hard pressed to answer why someone wouldn't take such elementary precautions, unless they wanted to perpetuate fraud.
If I were involved in setting something like this up, not only would you have strong cryptographic hashes of all data, but the files on the computer as well, such that any change made would be readily apparent. I'd also implement digital signatures using strong cryptographic functions like those available with the PGP or GPG encryption programs, but that is a much longer discussion for another day.
But I think you probably know it already.
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