Posted on 09/25/2022 9:14:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the November midterm election draws near, the focus is on voting protocols and tools, especially the voting machines themselves.
After the 2020 election, many irregularities in voting were documented across the country, some due to mail-in voting, some due to voting rosters, some due to poll workers, and some due to machines that were somehow hacked or compromised in some way.
GPB News reports:
“Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. copies of confidential voting software are available for download. Ballot counting machines inspected by people not supposed to have access.
The list of suspected security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations underway in at least three states – Colorado, Georgia, and Michigan.”
The report continues:
“Election security experts say the breaches by themselves have not necessarily increased threats to the November voting. Election officials already assume hostile foreign governments might have sensitive data, and so they take precautions to protect their voting systems.
Of course, the 2020 election is under fire from some conservative Republicans who say the numbers don’t add up for Joe Biden to have defeated Donald Trump.
Trump and his supporters have made claims about certain voting machines after he lost his bid for reelection. Authorities have said there was no evidence of widespread problems with voting equipment.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been accusing each other of voter fraud, and new accusations in Georgia are following old.
Recently in Fulton County, Georgia, election officials in the state’s most populous county in and around Atlanta, said Friday that they had fired a worker after learning that “personally identifiable information was shared with an individual outside the organization,” news outlets reported.
“The individual responsible for the incident no longer works with Fulton County,” the county said in a news release. “Fulton County is committed to the safety and security of all citizens and employees. Each individual affected by this incident will be notified and will receive credit monitoring services.”
In another instance that is resulting in a lawsuit, Fulton County Georgia, it seems security video appears to show Cathy Latham introducing members of a computer forensic team to local election officials. Latham was the county Republican Party chair at the time. The computer forensics team was at the county elections office in Douglas, Ga., to make copies of voting equipment in an effort that documents show was arranged by Sidney Powell and other Republicans.
Georgia is connecting these actions to Donald Trump, as the Republicans shown in the video footage are Trump voters.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said an investigation into the unauthorized access to the equipment by former Coffee County election officials continues.
Georgia’s secretary of state deemed this “unauthorized access” to the equipment that happened two months after the 2020 election.
The unfolding story so far is that computer forensics team hired by Republicans traveled to Coffee County, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta, on Jan. 7, 2021.
A company representative has said they made complete copies of the election management system server and other election system components.
The Fulton County official that authorized the team to assess the equipment is a Trump supporter, therefore the investigation deems the action Trump-connected.
Another scenario in the investigation is that later that month, two men who have been involved in efforts to discredit the 2020 election results also spent hours inside the elections office with access to the equipment.
The Georgia Secretary of State on Friday announced plans to replace election equipment in one county with a press release about the matter.
“Anyone who broke the law should be punished to its full extent,” Raffensperger said in a news release. “But the current election officials in Coffee County have to move forward with the 2022 election, and they should be able to do so without this distraction.”
Footage from security cameras shows “former election officials in Coffee County permitting access by unauthorized individuals to equipment that under Georgia law should have been secured,” the release said. The footage was produced in response to subpoenas issued by plaintiffs in a long-running lawsuit against state election officials that claims the state’s touchscreen voting machines aren’t secure.
The equipment is said to have been replaced after the 2020 elections, and new equipment is on the way as well.
The county’s election management server and central scanner workstation were previously replaced in June 2021, officials have said. The county will receive 100 new touchscreen voting machines, 100 printers, 10 precinct scanners, 21 tablets used to check in voters and new flash cards and thumb drives to be installed and tested before early voting begins next month.
But apparently certain machines are not automatically being replaced.
Marilyn Marks, executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance, a plaintiff in the voting machine lawsuit, said the election management server and central scanner workstation should also be replaced. She said that’s because they were used with the other potentially contaminated equipment in elections since their replacement last year, GPB News reports.
Also, included in "the likely suspects" are all those in the tech and media industry that unduly influenced and corrupted the electoral process.
IMO.
What a coincidence.
Well let’s just see how far the “investigation” goes...
1) Assert that a lie is true.
2) Smear those who call out the lie as “deniers”
See: Climate, Science, Elections.
I think that all of the concerns and complaints about the voting machines are evidence that the machines, themselves, should be eliminated.
We should return to paper ballots and same day voting to restore confidence in voter integrity.
world full of evil
“Biden did not get all those votes because voters like Biden.“
You should have stoped at “Biden did not get all those votes”. If you think this clueless idiot got more than 10 milligrams more votes than Obongo got you are delusional.
They gotta replace the old machines bc the steal was compromised so they need an upgrade. SOS, elections won’t be fair. Watch counties where machines replaced be 100% democrat at 4am after election day
A simple suggestions that even these low grade morons that run the elections should be able to understand; go back to paper ballots and hand count.
Unauthorized Access = 81.000.000 Votes
It you were real, why don’t you prove your case in a court of law? Let me clue you in. You have no evidence which will hold up in courts. Not every court in the country is corrupt.
Therefore the real delusional person can be seen in your bathroom mirror.
Paper ballots can also be forged easily.
The real problem with paper ballots is this...
Only the outside envelope has signature and identity of the voter. Once the paper ballot inside the envelope is separated from the outside envelope, there is no way in hell which ballots are valid. They can count and recount until hell freezes over, it will not detect fake ballots from the real ones.
You can not count the envelopes because those do not show which candidate was voted on.
Bttt.
5.56mm
give it up
Tell yourself that because you do not have one iota of evidence to prove voting fraud in a any court of law in United States. If you have such evidence wtf you are waiting for? There are still a few honest courts in USA.
I am only going to give one example and even that is an obvious waste of time, there was a precinct in Mi where the people there demanded a input/output hand audit of the vote. Guess what? It turned out the Dominion machine “switched” enough votes from Trump to Biden to swing the precinct. The rat SOS called it a “glitch”. Ridiculous yes but local media just nodded their heads and that was that. I guess you missed the videos of people dumping boxes of ballots into drop boxes.
It is not what I believe which is important.
What is important is what can be proved in courts.
Personally, I was a democrat supporter living in Chicago during my early 20’s. I know about voter fraud longer than most. But JFK was declared president because of ONE reason which is enough votes were added to JFK to switch Illinois in his column.
Again, unless someone can prove in a court of law with court admissible evidence, legally and following constitution Biden won more electoral votes and naps in the White House..
Trump was not allowed to go to court and present evidence of which there was plenty. The SC used the standing loophole to keep him from doing so. Ridiculous, no one had more standing than Trump. I would argue that we all had standing in a case involving a stolen Presidential election as evidenced by the misery the thief has inflicted on the entire country.
In conclusion, the USA presidential election system is so bad and so full of fraud possibilities, unless the whole system is overhauled, I see no good things in future.
The biggest flaw in system is that when the ballot paper inside the envelope is separated from the envelope, there is no way to identify fraud ballots. Voter signature and identity is on the outside envelope. Fraudsters can dump shit load of fraud ballots into counting machines, and there is no way any recount will identify fraud ballots. We are screwed.
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