Given how little both sides seem to really know about networks and how they work, I would like to know how the voting machines are connected and communicate....
If they are on a separate VLAN and Subnet more would have to be configured to isolate them from other networks in Maricopa County...
Regardless, the Michigan County that is being audited which seems to show the voting machines are capable of manipulating the totals and nothing has been said about the routers......
**If they are on a separate VLAN and Subnet more would have to be configured to isolate them from other networks in Maricopa County...**
Maricopa’s governing democrats stated that the reason they are refusing to turn over voting system servers is that the servers also serve other systems with more sensitive data. Wouldn’t that be an indictment in itself? Shouldn’t a voting system stand separate where votes can’t be changed via access through other systems?
I have long assumed they are on a separate network but I don't know for sure, just speculating. Obviously, having it on a completely isolated network would be MOST secure, but that would be impractical on a County-wide system, particularly one that decides to use the Optional Modem Transmission. (Looking at this diagram below we see the "Optional Modem Transmission" as an alternative to the secure USB option which would be used to carry the ballot images to the Democracy Suite system.)
I also make the presumption that if there is network connectivity outbound to send ballot images instead of sneaker-netting them to the appropriate ingestion point, then there is also the possibility of a network connection back in order to...ahem...remotely configure the Imagecast Precinct, Evolution, BMD, and XSystem voting machines from the Democracy suite EMS Election Programming Station. (And just as likely, the Imagecast Central optical scanners).
All of which obviously would open up a lot of cans of worms.
Think of the Antrim County (Michigan) machines that had, on average, a 68% failure rate scanning in documents...that is AVERAGE across the county, and one precinct in particular had an 81% error rate scanning and ingesting ballots. The log files had been removed (this is my surprised face) but someone, in their inept sabotage, did not realize there were stored logs in a different location they neglected to delete and that is where they got the error rates from.
Again...from the connections possible from the EMS Election Programming stations or other entry points in the Dominion Democracy Suite systems? Don't know.
But I do know one thing: when I have to look at systems forensically in my line of work, and specific logs are missing that should be there...that I am USED to seeing there, that SCREAMS malfeasance to me. When you see that, someone is attempting to cover their tracks. Of course, you could always turn off logging in some systems (and I have seen it done deliberately if large log files were being generated) and forget to turn it back on, but...when I am in the American Southwest instead of the African Subcontinent and hear hooves, I think Horses, not Zebras.
This whole business stinks to high heaven.
There’s not a good reason for the routers and switches to be on the county administrative network, except perhaps in the broadest sense of ‘network’, such as including the internet. And yes, real routers and switches would be needed in order to run a large network, and they would be dedicated.
OTOH, you’d expect a lot of the routing data to be lost when they are turned off, unless they route-mapped everything.