Dominion Voting Systems tied to Clintons, widely used in battleground states
The companies “uploaded something last night, which is not normal, and it caused a glitch,” said Marcia Ridley, elections supervisor at Spalding County Board of Election, Politico reported. That glitch prevented pollworkers from using the pollbooks to program smart cards that the voters insert into the voting machines.
Ridley said that a representative from the two companies called her after poll workers began having problems with the equipment Tuesday morning and said the problem was due to an upload to the machines by one of their technicians overnight.
“That is something that they don’t ever do. I’ve never seen them update anything the day before the election,” Ridley said.
DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS ACQUIRED BY ITS MANAGEMENT TEAM AND STAPLE STREET CAPITAL
July 18, 2018
NEW YORK, July 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Dominion Voting Systems (“Dominion Voting”) announces that it has been acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a leading New York-based, middle-market private equity firm.
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U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
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William Earl Kennard[1] (born January 19, 1957)[2] is an American attorney who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (2009–13) and chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1997–2001). He was nominated as ambassador to the EU by President Barack Obama in August 2009 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in November. Prior to this appointment, Kennard was Managing Director of the global private equity firm the Carlyle Group. He was also chairman of the FCC after being appointed by President Bill Clinton in November 1997, serving from November 3, 1997 to January 19, 2001.[3] He is also an advisor for the transatlantic think-tank European Horizons.[4]
“That is something that they don’t ever do. I’ve never seen them update anything the day before the election,” Ridley said.
As a software engineer, I can tell you that is extremely bad practice. You don’t touch the software right before “game day” unless you uncovered some critical, absolutely show-stopping bug. You just don’t do it.