[CharlesWayneCT]

Not much of a competition. IF you are handed a voting machine, you can ‘hack’ it. The security for voting machines is physical (they are locked up and guarded, and they are not connected to any computer networks during their time of use).

They are also tested randomly, to make sure they don’t come with viruses, although technically you could, if you knew the exact test, write hacked software that would give correct results until the actual vote, and then tweak things a bit.

THere is also supposed to be other safeguards, like comparing total votes, such that your hack really has to be able to modify results in subtle ways, not just generate additional votes. The official s/w can protect against this (like you shouldn’t allow fractional votes).

The hacking contest violated many of the security protocols.

[Mariner]

POTUS Donald Trump is proof the powers that be do not have control of the electoral apparatus.

However, there are individual cells of corruption in every state of the Union. And they are of consequence in many cases.

[grobdriver]

Some of the machines had flawed wifi systems; some had sockets in which to plug other devices…The whole thing was over for almost everyone in less than 90 minutes.

Somehow I don't think anyone is going to get 90 minutes alone with a voting machine and their handy gadgets, never mind the dozen or more voting machines that are actually used on election day.

And wifi? A voting box has no reason to be wifi enabled. They should not even have the capability.
That, I agree, is insane.

[McGavin999]

Ummmm, voting machines are not connected to the internet, the country does not have only one system, some places still count ballots by hand, how do you hack that?

[flamberge]

Any machine can be hacked if you have physical possession of it for a long enough time period. But it takes a lot of skills that are hard-to-find and it must be done one machine at a time.

For reliable vote fraud, the old-fashioned ways are better and cheaper.

Just suborn your County Clerk or Election Commissioner and insert a sufficient number of imaginary voters onto the rolls. Then keep track of those names and make sure those ballots get cast for the candidate/issue of your choice.

"Absentee Ballots" and "Mail-in Ballots" make it all so easy.

Avoid getting too enthusiastic with ballot-box stuffing. The regular appearance of precincts with 120% "voter turnout" for the Democrats might raise embarrassing questions.

[marron]

There are lots of ways to “hack” an election. Only some of them involve hacking software.

We already know there are numerous illegal and zombie voters on the rolls. And you aren’t allowed to ask for ID in most places.

Anyone remember Jill Steyn’s recount? In most of Michigan, the recount revealed that the count had been shaved slightly in Clinton’s favor, but in Detroit the discrepancies were on the order of several hundred percent. That’s when the judges stepped in and shut down the recount.

Numerous precincts around the country will show 100% voter turnout, which is unlikely, and some show more votes than voters. Then there is the Al Franken method, that happens occasionally, where they keep recounting until they get the answer they want.

As for electronic machines, these can be rigged to shave votes and only on the day of the election. A lot of people report the machine registering a candidate other than the one they selected. But if it didn’t show you on the screen, if it just shaves the count in software, how would you know? The only way an electronic machine is trustworthy is if it gives you a hard copy that is also saved for recount.

Democrats have placed a lot of importance on controlling Secretary of State positions at the state level, which controls elections. That gives them a lot of influence over how things are organized.

[marron]

A lot of areas, even urban areas, no longer have voting places. Everyone in the neighborhood is sent a mail-in ballot. This opens the door to mischief, if you have a database showing zombie voters.

And activists will carry fistfuls of ballots into old-folks homes and jails and “help” people fill them out. They will be local celebrities in the party, as they can be counted on to deliver large blocks of votes on election day. There is no way of knowing, nor any interest in knowing, how many of those ballots are zombies.

[Sacajaweau]

All I remember is that in one state that was up for grabs....all of a sudden, they found 20,000 votes for Hillary. How can that possibly be. No if they come up with 28,000, she would have won the state.

Be real...she forgot about the non-black, non-Hispanic, LEGAL WORKING CLASS.

[Boomer]

We already know the dems are crooks by nature and have no problem at all cheating as long as they win. To them the end justifies the means even if that means we don’t have an honest election. They are criminals and criminals don’t have a conscience or sense of honor or decency to bother them after the fact like conservatives do. Something like that would eat us alive but they just laugh at us for this and think it’s a weakness. I guess in a twisted way; it kinda is.

A simple change in code to the bank of machines before the election could cause votes to be tallied to favor a certain candidate regardless of how we voted. A flash drive, some instruction, and a corrupt dem which are never hard to find, is all it would take. Repeat across the country enough to change the election or just in those toss up states and it’s done deal.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article davikkm. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Regarding POTUS elections, patriots are reminded that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly give ordinary citizens the power to vote for POTUS.

The only reason that ordinary citizens now vote for POTUS is because the anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement successfully spooked the states to stray from the 12th Amendment (12A) procedure for electing POTUS.

Under 12A, the only people who actually have the constitutional authority to vote for POTUS are state electors, only 538 electors having the constitutional authority to vote for POTUS in the 2016 elections, not the constitutionally meaningless 100+ million ordinary citizens, probably also illegal aliens, who voted in 2016.

And in stark contrast to electronic ballot machines that can evidently be rigged, 538 votes is still reasonably (imo) manageable for the President of the Senate to hand count as indicated by the 12A.

Patriots also need to understand that probably the only reason that citizens are so concerned about who is POTUS is because they have never been taught about the fed’s constitutionally limited powers.

And as a consequence of not knowing about the fed’s limited powers, they don’t understand that nearly all federal domestic policy and spending is based on unique state powers and state revenues uniquely associated with those powers that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen and continue to steal from the states, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

If the states were still complying with 12A as they should be, and only the state legislatures still electing federal senators as the Founding States had intended, then consider the following.

Since one of the very few federal “social spending” programs that the Founding States actually gave the feds the express constitutional authority to run is the US Mail Service (1.8.7), if domestic federal policy were limited to the mail and the very few other services that the feds actually have the express constitutional to run, the states left to caring for the people as the Founding States had intended, then citizens would probably lose interest in the federal government to the extent that citizens would probably have to guess who the current POTUS is.

• "Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, our property, our reputation and religious freedom [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.

• "... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphasis added]." —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See middle of third column.)

Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!

Remember in November 2018 !

Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.

In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers shown in this post.

Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.

Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!