but Fox imposed ***NONPARTISAN PEREZ/OSET on Dobbs, Pirro & Bartiromo!
19 Dec: LA Times: Fox News runs fact check in response to defamation charges by voting software firm
By Stephen Battaglio
The taped segment where a voting technology expert shoots down the many claims the conservative-leaning cable news channel presented about the London-based Smartmatic first aired Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” and will be repeated on Jeanine Pirro’s show “Justice With Judge Jeanine” on Saturday night and Maria Bartiromo’s program, “Sunday Morning Futures.”
The three-minute interview with Eddie Perez, a ***NONPARTISAN expert from the Palo Alto-based Open Source Election Technology Institute, is an apparent response to a Dec. 10 letter from attorneys for Smartmatic...
The legal salvo from Smartmatic may be a precursor to a defamation suit against Fox News, Newsmax and One America News...
In the Fox News interview, Perez answers questions read to him by a producer not seen on camera...
(Perez) says there is no corporate connection between Soros or Smartmatic...
Smartmatic has been aggressively pushing back on the accusations made. The company’s chief executive, Antonio Mugica, wrote an opinion column (LINK) that ran Saturday in USA Today to defend its reputation and call out the outlets that have willfully spread misinformation...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-12-19/fox-news-airing-a-fact-check-in-response-to-defamation-charges-by-voting-software-firm
***NONPARTISAN Open Source Election Technology Institute (OSET)?
Trust the Vote Org: The TrustTheVote Project builds and maintains ***Rock The Vote’s online voter registration system...
Is this election season hyperbole? Not at all, says John Sebes, Chief Technology Officer of the OSET Institute (the organization that runs the Trust The Vote project)...
The OSET Institute runs the TrustTheVote Project, a real alternative to nearly obsolete, proprietary voting technology. TrustTheVote is building an open, adaptable, flexible, full-featured and innovative elections operating system called ElectOS. It supports all aspects of elections administration and voting including creating, marking, casting, and counting ballots, as well as managing all back-office functions. Check out this overview of the TrustTheVote Project to learn more...
https://trustthevote.org/blog/tag/voter-registration/
almost as if they planned the fraud!
2 Nov: Politico: The voting technology problems that could trigger panic at the polls
From malfunctions to server outages, plenty could go wrong in key states — and spark false rumors that could make things even worse
by Eric Geller
Newly competitive battleground state Georgia is using controversial touch screen voting machines for the first time in a presidential election. In the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, where new voting machines malfunctioned last year, several counties have now also configured those machines to speed up ballot-counting in a way that doesn’t give voters a chance to hold the ballots in their hands...
Across the country, the servers that store voter data and post unofficial results are vulnerable to temporary outages — snafus that could worsen long lines on Election Day, block or discourage voters from casting ballots or fuel claims of election fraud.
“Any kind of disinformation about election-related technology, even if there is no hack, is cause for concern, because to be effective, all that is required is for the public to perceive a problem — whether real or not,” said ***EDDIE PEREZ, director of technology development and open standards at the ***Open Source Election Technology Institute, an election technology advocacy organization.
Federal and state officials recognize these risks and have spent months warning people not to be too quick to believe alarming claims about hacked elections, saying not every technological glitch is evidence of a cyberattack. “Bad things sometimes happen,” ***Christopher Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said at a recent conference — adding in a subsequent statement that voters should not “overreact to claims that exaggerate the importance of insignificant events.”
“This jump to ‘cyberattack’ — we can’t fall into that trap,” Krebs said...
“There is no way to deter, contain, or correct computer hacking in BMDs,” wrote leading voting security experts Andrew Appel of Princeton University, ***Richard DeMillo of ***Georgia Tech and Philip Stark of the University of California, Berkeley. “These are the essential security flaws of BMDs.”...
Electronic voting machines also represent a potential trouble spot in Pennsylvania, one of the most important states for both Trump and Biden, because of how some counties plan to use them.
After the 2018 election, Pennsylvania replaced its paperless machines statewide. Most counties bought ballot-marking devices for voters with disabilities and stocked paper ballots for everyone else. The rest bought the electronic devices for everyone, as Georgia did.
But some counties in the latter camp went further, announcing plans to configure their ballot-marking devices in “tabulator mode,” which tallies votes inside the machine rather than giving voters a paper ballot to bring to a scanner...
— Voter registration databases are also tempting targets for anyone seeking to sow chaos on Election Day. States have added new protections against tampering since 2016, when Russian operatives breached Illinois’ system, but the mere claim of a successful hack would stoke fears about the reliability of the database...
A determined and well-resourced adversary — such as Russia — could conduct simultaneous attacks in multiple states in hopes of causing nationwide chaos...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/02/voting-tech-problems-433748
About Open Source Election Technology Institute.
Strategic Board Advisors
***•Dr. Rich DeMillo, Georgia-Tech
https://www.osetfoundation.org/#about
Smartmatic: New ***Georgia Tech white paper supports innovative voting systems security approaches
Boca Raton, United States - June 26, 2019 - A new white paper released by the Center for Advanced Communications Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), with support from Smartmatic Corporation, calls for the development of an objective and public voting security model that employs an independent third-party assessment approach to evaluate the security of voting systems...
Following the 2016 elections, confidence in the security of election systems in the U.S. is at an all-time low, while concerns about foreign interference are on the rise...
“Georgia Tech proposes a comprehensive model for voting security standards to address concerns about the overall integrity of the U.S. electoral system,” said Kevin Shelly, President of Smartmatic USA. “Smartmatic believes that adopting this framework for secure, accessible and transparent voting technology is an important step toward safeguarding elections at every stage.”
https://www.smartmatic.com/media/article/new-georgia-tech-white-paper-supports-innovative-voting-systems-security-approaches/
PDF: Observing the 2006 Presidential Elections in Venezuela
Final Report of the Technical Mission
Carter Center Technical Team and Staff
***Richard DeMillo, Dean, College of Computing, ***Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
PDF: Smartmatic Response to eRFI – New Voting System
August 24, 2018
Ms. Veronica Favors, Issuing Officer State of Georgia
In Re: Electronic Request for Information; Event Name – New Voting System; Event Number –
47800-SOS0000035
For the last 3 years, ***Smartmatic USA has had ***Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) under
contract to support development of our next generation voting technology. Working closely
with GTRI on key areas such as security, accessibility, usability and accuracy, has resulted in
the development of a voting system that can take Georgia well into the
future securely...
April 9, 2020: MIT Technology Review: How America must prepare for a pandemic election
Voting by mail is the only sensible option, but it’s not going to happen without swift action.
by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Republicans have repeatedly opposed expansion of voting rights for absentee and mail-in ballots, claiming that it increases fraud.
That doesn’t reflect reality, however...
In the end, the stimulus bill passed in March did include $400 million to help states with their election problems. It’s a big number, but less than a quarter of the amount voting experts say is needed to run this election safely during the pandemic. “I think it shows a really lamentable lack of properly prioritizing the importance of elections that are the bedrock of our democracy,” says ***EDDIE PEREZ OF THE OPEN SOURCE ELECTION TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE.
Still, things could change. When Congress returns later in April, a more robust vote-by-mail bill championed by Democratic senators Ron Wyden and Amy Klobuchar is expected to become a priority. It would give even more cash—the exact amount is still being decided—to those who actually run elections, designating it to speed up the difficult transition to vote-by-mail...
The biggest disinformation threat the US faces, however, may be domestic. In 2016, Trump tried to undermine trust in election results by saying that if he didn’t win, it would be because the system was rigged. And during the coronavirus crisis, while his rivals for the presidency have been muted, he has used his daily press briefings to repeatedly downplay the severity of the pandemic, rewrite the historical record about his response to the situation, and distort or lie about things like the effectiveness of drugs and the availability of ventilators...
A bigger concern is that without the option to vote by mail, the pandemic will discourage people from voting altogether...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/998828/america-might-survive-coronavirus-but-will-the-presidential-election/