Posted on 11/24/2020 8:50:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A software update made 12-days before voting began in Georgia was not adequately tested for security issues nor was it recertified by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Why? Because infamous Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer claimed the change was “minor” and did not require recertification.
Nothing to see here, right?
It all began when issues were noticed regarding Senate candidates not appearing on the touchscreen ballots. But attorneys for the plaintiffs called for paper ballots to be used in lieu of replaced technology because it was so close to the beginning of early voting in Georgia. Their request was denied outright by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
According to GovTech:
The issue, discovered last week during pre-election equipment testing in Douglas and Richmond counties, occurred when the second column of candidates didn’t appear because of a technical problem with how touchscreens communicated with their underlying Android operating system, said Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems. He said the problem only happened rarely, when users made selections in a specific pattern.
David Cross, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said making a critical software change shows that the state’s voting technology is vulnerable to problems.
“This is far bigger than we originally thought,” Cross told U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg. “It’s hard to imagine a more concerning scenario.”
He said the software upgrade is being made without adequate security testing or certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. But Coomer said the change is minor and doesn’t require recertification.
Election officials halted testing in the 77 counties where it had begun after they learned about the problem, said Gabriel Sterling, statewide voting system implementation manager.
In GA, during (late?) Sept, Dominion’s radical Leftist Eric Coomer made a “critical software change” to GA’s Dominion voting machines “without adequate testing or certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission”. From this 9/29/20 AJC story https://t.co/Mhn8wIcewK pic.twitter.com/GtpN1SzOXF
— Andrew Bostom (@andrewbostom) November 24, 2020
Georgia has become a hotly contested battleground state following an apparent victory on election night by President Trump followed by a series of suspicious “bursts” in votes for former Vice President Joe Biden that tilted the state in his direction. A recount was performed with major challenges associated with it. Now, attorney Sidney Powell is set to file a lawsuit in the state on Wednesday.
BREAKING: Sidney Powell to file suit in Georgia on Wednesday
This could be nothing. It all seems pretty casual. But considering Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer initiated the update and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ran cover for it, this needs a much closer examination.
Coomer would be publicly waterboarded on a daily basis by Congressional Democrats were he a Republican who did what he did. Yet we get NOTHING on election fraud from the useless GOP Senate. One side wants to win. The other does not.
It’s long time now to subpoena these dominion assholes.
They ran away from their scheduled appearance in PA.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Wasn’t there updates the night before the election? Has changes been prevented since the election? The whole idea of the company pushing out updates and the devices not being retested by the customer and recertified by the customer is ludicrous. And changes the night before, criminal.
I heard there were updates the morning of November 4.
The Republicants’ hatred of President DJT supercedes everything.
Has anyone subpoenaed Eric Coomer anywhere yet??? He is the #1 person of interest in this entire scandal if you ask me.
And from his Facebook rants (now deleted) praising Antifa and showing genuine Trump derangement syndrome, it’s pretty clear someone like him had no business being anywhere near election software.
DOJ and FBI don’t seem to give a $hit.
Lots of people have outed themselves over this. Question is can we do anything about it?
bttt
What???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is surreal!! Any changes should require review from interested parties, then certification/sign-off, regardless of how minor the change is.
No software shop works this way, even rinky-dink shops operating out of a garage somewhere.
I would love to see the the source code diffs (source revision lingo) that makes this change "minor". The executive saying so doesn't make it so.
Jim Hoft
@gatewaypundit
CONFIRMED: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Used Dominion’s Eric Coomer as Witness for the State to Defend LAST MINUTE COMPUTER CHANGES https://thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/confirmed-georgia-secretary-state-brad-raffensperger-used-dominions-eric-coomer-witness-state-defend-last-minute-computer-changes/
RE: It’s long time now to subpoena these dominion assholes.
The problem is they are a CANADIAN company. Pennsylvania’s legislature tried to ask their management to come and testify but they were a no show.
See here:
They sent a consultant from a PR company to speak on their behalf in an interview with FOX NEWS instead. See here:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dominion-rep-responds-to-trump-campaign-impossible-to-switch-votes
RE: The executive saying so doesn’t make it so.
Trust me, I’m a Doctor ( of Nuclear Physics ).
Unless they both have the same definition of winning.
People were very concerned about these last-minute software updates done a month ago *on every voting machine* in Georgia.
Watch this video on YouTube:
“Critics claim software update being improperly installed, tested on state’s voting machines” (Oct. 6, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMJU2p4_LDM&ab_channel=11Alive
from here
https://georgia.gov/early-voting
Know When Early Voting Begins and Ends
State law requires local elections officials to allow early in-person voting beginning on the fourth Monday prior to a primary or election, and as soon as possible prior to the runoff.
discounting GA state holiday of Columbus Day (Oct. 12), that is about calendar 3 weeks of early in-person voting in GA.
In practice, such early voting squeezes the electronic voting machine software product life cycle (SPLC) testing by a critical 3 calendar weeks.
First (imho) the existing testing for the product seems inadequate to handle the real life configuration as experienced in early October.
Secondly any software update would have needed extensive testing but imho more than likely received almost no testing since the need for the update was immediate in real time.
Third, a paper workaround was ruled out in advance by SoS Raffenberger.
Fourth, apparently Coomer talked his way out of requiring independent certification.
Wow, this is the wild west of early 1960s era software development all over again...
Dominion seems IMHO unprofessional to the point of criminally negligent in their software development practices. IMHO any modern software management consultant should be able to testify to that, and that the problem imho also goes back to lax administration of the Dominion contract by the GA SoS.
Just reading that the machine wouldn’t display the senate candidates if you attempted to vote in a “certain pattern” - do we need anymore to know this should never have been used?
Do a search on Eric Coomer of Dominion and his Facebook posts.
What you will find is appalling.
How many times as a young engineer did I fall for the “changes are only minor” statement from a programmer who was bidding on a new program? Sad to say that it always cost us, and it never was a minor change. Usually it did not work right the first time the changes was exercised.
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