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Oregon elections director fired after sharing security, spending concerns
OregonLive ^ | 11/09/2020 | Andrew Selsky, AP

Posted on 11/09/2020 8:23:03 PM PST by aimhigh

Oregon’s elections director was abruptly fired in a text message by the secretary of state after he pointed out serious issues with the state’s aging and vulnerable technology for running elections. Elections Director Stephen Trout learned in a text message Thursday night — as his department and county elections officials were still counting votes from the Nov. 3 election — that he was out.

On Friday, Secretary of State Bev Clarno, a Republican appointed to the position by Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, announced to county clerks and other elections officials in Oregon’s 36 counties that “today is also Steve Trout’s last day with the Agency.”

(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: director; election
Later in the article:
"the Oregon Centralized Voter Registration system is so old that Microsoft no longer supports the Windows Server 2008 system that it operates on"

and this:
"Trout said he received no election security updates from the technology department for the 2020 election until 7:52 p.m. on election night."

1 posted on 11/09/2020 8:23:03 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

Fascinating. Pray that the house of cards is going to come crashing down.


2 posted on 11/09/2020 8:24:31 PM PST by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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To: Antoninus

AG Barr has probably dispatched a team already. When it’s all said and done, Trump will win in all 50 states.


3 posted on 11/09/2020 8:30:03 PM PST by salmon76 (Trump won the 2020 vote in a landslide. He did not win the ballot count--at least not yet.)
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To: aimhigh; Twotone; Salvation
Wow, tell the truth and get fired, what a country.

Our RINO secretary of state up here in Washington state has been very critical of President Trump's failure to concede.

We're screwed here in Washington state:

There are 4 voting criteria here;

1) You have to be a citizen of the state

2) You have to be 18 or older

3) You cannot be a felon

4) You must be a U.S. citizen

All the above criteria is checked against a state data base except #4; they don't verify citizenship.

Any wonder republicans here rarely win anymore?

4 posted on 11/09/2020 8:31:45 PM PST by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: aimhigh

Trout is out!


5 posted on 11/09/2020 8:31:49 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: aimhigh
"the Oregon Centralized Voter Registration system is so old that Microsoft no longer supports the Windows Server 2008 system that it operates on"

Thats scary, Windows Server 2008 was a spinoff of Windows Vista. Microsoft ended support in January 2020.
6 posted on 11/09/2020 8:33:31 PM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: aimhigh

Like I said: NO REPUBLICAN HAS BEEN ELECTED GOVERNOR IN OREGON SINCE MAIL IN VOTING BEGAN IN 1987
This state has been orchestrating election FRAUD for 33 years!!!!!!!

THAT IS WHY DEMONRATS HAD TO USE A BIOWEAPON, CRASH TRUMP’S ECONOMY AND INSTITUTE MAIL IN VOTING


7 posted on 11/09/2020 8:48:48 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: PROCON

That and the top tier system. The state is rigged for one party rule.


8 posted on 11/09/2020 8:53:44 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: All

The plot thickens... And the thicks plotten.

I bet they want to go to the Dominion system too.


9 posted on 11/09/2020 8:54:33 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: TXBlair

This guy is no Steve “Rainbow” Trout.


10 posted on 11/09/2020 9:00:56 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: Widget Jr

The state is rigged for one party rule. And it has spread slowly to other states. Each election, they spread a little further. They planned it systematically so as to not look too suspicious. Then Trump ruined their plans in 2016. They thought no one would vote for him. They made up wild stories about him and thought that would be enough. This time, they had to do something more drastic. Let’s take a closer look at Virginia . . .

This little light of mine . . .


11 posted on 11/09/2020 9:01:49 PM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: salmon76
AG Barr has probably dispatched a team already. <<<

LOL!...Now that's funny!!...../s

12 posted on 11/09/2020 9:08:22 PM PST by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: PROCON
"All the above criteria is checked against a state data base except #4 (You must be a U.S. citizen); they don't verify citizenship.

I was in Olylmpia about the citizenship matter after I learned that Democrats had registered 100,000 new Democrats for the upcoming elections. Most of those registered were in heavily migrant worker counties. I wanted to talk to Secretary of State, Kim Wyman, who I have a good relationship. However, Kim was out of Olympia and I talked to Assistant SOS Mark Neary. He told me there was state law, initiated by the Democrats, that forbids investigation for citizenship. Once the person is registered as a voter, it's a done deal.

13 posted on 11/09/2020 9:17:30 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: petitfour

“Then Trump ruined their plans in 2016. They thought no one would vote for him.”


Pssst: I have a little theory about that.

I believe that Shrillary was so convinced that she would win due to factors in place which she and democrats believed would assure her the win (electronic voter fraud).

It is possible that the Russians found out about it and the involvement of multiple US agencies under Zero. They then could have hacked the miscreants, reversing the illegal gains.

Trump won legitimately, but due to the Russians catching them at their game. US intelligence saw this almost real-time, but couldn’t do a damned thing about it without both exposing their complicity and that dems were undermining free elections in the world’s greatest democratic republic.

Hence, the ‘insurance policy’ was instituted with a vengeance.

I know it’s ‘out there’ but it explains everything, including the current status of this election (which didn’t rely solely upon vote flipping in systems vulnerable to being counter hacked).

It also explains lack of action against Russiagate conspirators by DOJ: This is MUCH bigger.

It also explains Barr’s action today - following other policy changes in October prior to the election - AND dipshit’s resignation.

But Russia haters here won’t take too kindly to a theory that Russia may have been directly responsible for the Trump presidency and exposing the breadth of the fraud network greatly-expanded under Zero and his minions.

Acorn never went away: It just got perfected. The evidence is all around those without blinders.


14 posted on 11/09/2020 9:31:35 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: jonrick46
Yes, the federal government's law prohibiting sanctuary cities/states is being ignored by democrat run states and nothing so far has been done to stop it.

President Trump and his AG have tried multiple times to stop it/defund the violating jurisdictions, and each time it was struck down by the usual men in black robes.

We are watching our state/country turning into a 3rd world banana republic where only those who COUNT the ballots matter.

15 posted on 11/09/2020 9:38:58 PM PST by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: PROCON; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; Tailback; ..
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
16 posted on 11/10/2020 6:22:08 AM PST by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: aimhigh

Does Oregon report its data to the third party outside contractors that tabulate (sum up) all the state’s data for the national totals, that use systems whose final servers are run by a company in Barcelona, Spain with servers in Frankfurt, Germany? If not, then old or not it may be more secure than others, and if so then nothing else matters.

“Quicker” is not always better.

And when it comes to technology, if ain’t broke, does get the job done and is secure then being “old” does not really matter.

Most of the supposedly “best” and newest vote tabulating software in use in the U.S. has back doors and multiple ways between the voter and the final totals where votes can be deleted, added and switched, and all it takes is the how-to knowledge and the will.


17 posted on 11/10/2020 7:05:33 AM PST by Wuli
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