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Because everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, trusts Microsoft.
1 posted on 05/07/2019 1:49:59 PM PDT by dayglored
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Microsoft secures the election process ... PING!

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Thanks to deoetdoctrinae for the ping!

2 posted on 05/07/2019 1:51:02 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: dayglored

The best way to corrupt elections is to both centralize them, and put them on a standardized system


3 posted on 05/07/2019 1:54:00 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: dayglored

Don’t trust microsquish one inch.

Open source means anyone can change the code and recompile it.


4 posted on 05/07/2019 1:55:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dayglored

Not just no, but hell no! Blue Screen of Election Death?


5 posted on 05/07/2019 2:01:17 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot
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To: dayglored

Get an ID.


6 posted on 05/07/2019 2:05:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: dayglored

Microsoft?
Same company that has the most hole-filled OS in the multiverse?
Same company whose OS is specifically constructed to get data from you, no matter how much you try to disable that data collection?
Same company that built the multiverse’s worse browser for decades?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!


7 posted on 05/07/2019 2:13:27 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: dayglored; All

If you believe MS’s claim about ElectionGuard then you probably believe in global warming too.

MS needs to put money where mouth is and offer $1 billion reward for Russian and Chinese hackers who hack it.


9 posted on 05/07/2019 2:25:10 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: dayglored

“Because everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, trusts Microsoft.”

It’s open source, so anyone can see the underlying code.

I think this is move in the right direction. So, naturally, Democrats and RINOs will oppose or ignore it.

One danger of fraud I think is if the system can be accessed to make a list of people who have not voted. This might make it easier for stolen voter registrations to be used to vote fraudulently. But open source is a good way to go. Right now we have no way of knowing whether the systems being used are vulnerable to hacking and voter fraud.

There needs to be accountability at every level, and there needs to be a clear chain of custody from ballots to counting.

The software can be perfect, but it won’t stop fraud without other commonsense measures such as requiring voter ID.

I think we need to park cars with facial recognition software and cameras at major polling locations that are close. Those coming and going should be recorded and compared to see if they may be going to multiple polling locations.

More security measures are needed for absentee ballots.


10 posted on 05/07/2019 2:56:48 PM PDT by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: dayglored
Microsoft has done some great things, along with some not-so-great, and more than a couple magnificent screw-ups. I'm happy to give them the benefit of the doubt with regard to the stuff they do well.

They do not, historically, do SECURITY well. More than a decade after Unix showed how you could secure an operating system, Microsoft was still putting random 3rd-party drivers in the kernel, and attaching executable files to emails that would launch on opening. They've gotten better in the last 10 years, but only grudgingly, and with uneven results.

Why in the world would US Citizens entrust the security of their only voice in their government -- their precious VOTE -- to a private company that demonstrably does not have their privacy as a priority?

Frankly, I'd much rather have a real security company, or better, a consortium of competing real security companies, do it.

Accountability.

Traceability.

Reliability.

TRUST.

Not Microsoft, not Apple, not Google, not Yahoo, not Amazon, ...

Maybe the NSA. Hell, they already have all that data anyway... :-)

11 posted on 05/07/2019 3:07:12 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: dayglored

Why not? What could go wrong? lol


13 posted on 05/07/2019 3:29:28 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: dayglored

From the guys who gave us Windows ME


15 posted on 05/07/2019 3:51:14 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: dayglored

Microsoft’s record on security is not good.


16 posted on 05/07/2019 3:59:38 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: dayglored

17 posted on 05/07/2019 4:44:01 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: dayglored
Microsoft's ElectionGuard aims to boost the security and verifiability of elections ensure the election of marx-o-crats everywhere.
18 posted on 05/07/2019 5:15:03 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: dayglored

Ok what is their liability if stuff goes wrong?

They are not an elections, or even a computer, security company.


20 posted on 05/07/2019 5:28:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dayglored

What will happen when our election becomes too slow to count and then gives the elector jail collage a blue screen of death?


21 posted on 05/07/2019 9:21:49 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputeca)
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