I presume these USB cards had the program the machines operated on?
And the vote tally contained within the machines would be my guess...
It’s frustrating that nobody - not the campaign, not Bannon, nobody - seems to be creating a clear list of brief bullet points with precise, quantifiable claims of fraud, such as this claim about missing data sticks, or the claim that many more Mail ballots came in than were sent out. I listened to Bannon today and he is long on rhetoric and generalities, short on the quantifiable specifics.
This is how absurd our election system is. From what I can gather from various sources...these machines scan the vote and basically store them as a file, containing the picture of the ballot and the metadata (machine vision system ‘reading’ the ballot selections). Once finished you have these files in ‘folders’ on a disk drive (flash memory, SD card, etc.). You can connect a USB thumb drive (example) to the machine and ‘download the files’.
The files are then taken to a PC running other (Dominion) software that will read the USB device data and upload it to a server.
Now consider this...you can configure things on the machine. You can set up a ‘folder for candidate A and B’. The ballot files, after scanning the ballot selections, are put in their respective directory. When you download the folders containing these ballot files you can drag-and-drop ballots from one folder to the other. The PC software that reads the data (transferred onto a USB stick) will just count the files...which are now compromised.
...or something very similar to this. These machines are *designed* to be insecure but try to be clever and give the impression of being secure. They also count in fractions. Specific numbers of Trump votes get a value of 0.75 per vote while Biden’s is 1.25. So the ballot *count* is correct, but votes have been shifted from one to the other.
Now add the ability to scan the same ballots over and over while nobody can watch.
We can NEVER accept this system ever again. In person, with ID, PAPER ballots with a ‘blue finger’ (dipped in ink) is the only system I’ll trust hereon.
And I’m a software architect. This system is sick. It is so sick, so painful to see, if it were my dog I’d take it outside and put it out of its misery. WE CANNOT ACCEPT THIS.
USB CARDS are used to store or upload info. They can be used to change codin, PUT IN A TROJAN BUG. Per my retired hubby the Electronic/CISCO PROF. After Navy Basics was his first school, 20 yrs, then 20 yrs as a Ass. Prof teaching same stuff,, trained future CISCO teachers, He is the GEEK. Not me.