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The nation's top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them.
1 posted on 07/17/2018 11:48:53 AM PDT by Mechanicos
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To: Mechanicos

What years?


2 posted on 07/17/2018 11:51:15 AM PDT by W. (.44 Magnum. One of my favorite cartridges! A reloader's favorite!)
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They should be banned from consideration on future machines.


3 posted on 07/17/2018 11:52:20 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Papa Johns is being changed to Politically Correct Pizza! Look for our new signs.)
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That is how jug ears won twice.


8 posted on 07/17/2018 11:54:05 AM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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An IT guy explained it to mas as this - It isn’t unusual, to not install it would be unusual. It allows companies to port in and help a client fix any software issues within the machine. But they just can’t port in anytime they want, the client needs to give them authorized permission on their side of the machine to gain access. Every single time. It’s very controlled.


9 posted on 07/17/2018 11:55:50 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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Electronic voting should be prohibited by law. It is too easy to systematically cheat and the ways to cheat are too numerous to list and limited only by one’s creativity.


11 posted on 07/17/2018 11:57:58 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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ES&S is the top voting machine maker in the country, a position it held in the years 2000-2006 when it was installing pcAnywhere on its systems. The company’s machines were used statewide in a number of states, and at least 60 percent of ballots cast in the US in 2006 were tabulated on ES&S election-management systems.


12 posted on 07/17/2018 11:58:09 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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They should be modified immediately or never be used.


13 posted on 07/17/2018 11:58:32 AM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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“AND I STILL LOST??!”

14 posted on 07/17/2018 11:58:43 AM PDT by Yaelle
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Is anybody going to talk about this interference in an election?


17 posted on 07/17/2018 12:01:03 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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Trackable paper ballots only.


18 posted on 07/17/2018 12:02:54 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States

Aren't most of the voting machines from a company owned by soros?

19 posted on 07/17/2018 12:09:21 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ('DEPLORABLE' Charter Member of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - and DAMN Proud of it!.)
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Geebus... I am a software engineer FOR A LIVING and the FIRST thing I would have questioned is why that unnecesary hardware was on there, when it gives another point of access to the computer....

Duhh........

THIS is WHY you dont want the government deciding anythingm especially your health care. IT’S FULL OF IDIOTS WHO DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING


22 posted on 07/17/2018 12:18:19 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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Go back to paper and machine voting.

Let each county handle voting themselves.


25 posted on 07/17/2018 12:23:38 PM PDT by PGR88
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I believe this was surmised and then shown to be true a couple of years ago.


29 posted on 07/17/2018 12:27:19 PM PDT by arthurus (|\/| |_ |/\| M L W I |-| |_|)
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From 2002-2009 the largest vote machine vendor in the US was Diebold Election Systems aka Premier Election Systems. On September 3, 2009 ES&S acquired Premier Election Systems from Diebold.

Reminder the Help America Vote Act, a knee jerk piece of legislation passed due to the hanging chads in the 2000 elections, brought about computerized voting.


32 posted on 07/17/2018 12:33:29 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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“to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006,”

Which makes this a history lesson, not a news story.


37 posted on 07/17/2018 12:52:17 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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Sold to states via middle-man Soros.


38 posted on 07/17/2018 12:57:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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Another wacky conspiracy theory proven true!

(Big win for us “conspiracy wackos”.)


42 posted on 07/17/2018 2:22:27 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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I have always wondered if we could be issued a randomly generated verification number at the time of voting that will be recorded at the time of voting that could be verified publicly so everyone could see their vote and verify it without revealing identity...

I think this is another purpose for block chain technology that could do something similar.


43 posted on 07/17/2018 3:09:55 PM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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Where is Alfred E Sessions?


45 posted on 07/17/2018 4:30:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right.)
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