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America’s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets | WIRED
Wired ^ | 08/02/2016 | Brian Barrett

Posted on 08/02/2016 5:17:23 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009

America’s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/americas-voting-machines-arent-ready-election/

When people think that people think about doing something major to impact our election results at the voting machine, they think they’d try to switch results,” says Norden, referring to potential software tampering. “But you can do a lot less than that and do a lot of damage… If you have machines not working, or working slowly, that could create lots of problems too, preventing people from voting at all.”

The extent of vulnerability isn’t just hypothetical; late last summer, Virginia decertified thousands of insecure WinVote machines. As one security researcher described it, “anyone within a half mile could have modified every vote, undetected” without “any technical expertise.” The vendor had gone out of business years prior.

The WinVote systems are an extreme case, but not an isolated one. Other voting machine models have potentially vulnerable wireless components; Virginia’s just the only one where a test proved how bad the situation was.

The worst part about the current state of voting machines is that they don’t even require outside interference to undo an election. “They’re all computers. They run on tens of thousands of lines of code,” says Norden. “It’s impossible to have a perfectly secure, perfectly reliable computer.”

That’s true, but in fairness, most computers aren’t quite this imperfect, either.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: machines; security; tampering; votefraud; voting
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To: dp0622

early voting and vote by mail are two more vote fraud vehicles


21 posted on 08/02/2016 6:44:16 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: MarchonDC09122009

More info about US Voting machine by states:

https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_equipment_by_state

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/08/02/96-hours-of-globalist-panic-continues-tick-tock-tick-tock/

fleporeblog on August 2, 2016 at 8:50 pm

I did some research about how each state votes. You can find the link below. Only 5 states use DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) without a paper trail (GA, SC, DE, NJ and LA). 18 states use only paper ballots. 7 states use paper and DRE without paper traiI (all this means is that thevoter doesn’t receive a receipt however, their vote is scanned and the actual document remains in the polling site where folks can cross check the electronic number with the paper ballots) 14 states use paper and DRE with paper trails. 3 states use mail while 3 states use paper and DRE with or without paper trails. NV is the only state that uses DRE with a paper trail. This actually makes me believe that all this fraud talk is very difficult to pull off in many states since paper is used in 45 out of 50 states. In the 5 states referenced above, Trump will definitely win 3 and is expected to lose in 2 (NJ and DE).


22 posted on 08/02/2016 6:48:41 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

This election will have so much fraud that Hillary will be President. Nothing can really stop the corrupt communists Democratic Party and their power over America is huge. Fraud, lies, distortion, seem to be the new American way.

Only Trump can change this. Trump for President.


23 posted on 08/02/2016 6:52:55 PM PDT by Logical me
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24 posted on 08/02/2016 6:54:44 PM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

It’s not who votes, it’s who counts the votes.
The corrupted Diebold vids on YT are amazing.


25 posted on 08/02/2016 7:27:12 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Do you have the Forbes article?


26 posted on 08/02/2016 9:17:53 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

as a professional software developer with 30+ years of large scale real-time systems, there is absolutely no reason we cannot make a tamper proof, verifiable, real-time, voting system

ABSOLUTELY no reason it cannot be made.


27 posted on 08/02/2016 9:41:21 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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BigEdLB's good advice---Trump needs to have this in place BEFORE the election:

<><> a database of every precinct in the country.

<><> a database of every address in the country.

<><> purchase datasets of people from Intelius and or Zabasearch.

<><> Merge all and see what pops up.

<><> get the Social Security death index. Make sure that if you are on the ssdi, you aren’t registered to vote.

<><>line up poll watchers for precincts with abnormal turnout.

As to the vote side: see if there is a way to demand a paper trail through the court system of the states. If the integrity check of the machines fails, ask for an order for paper ballots. Machine-only precincts have paper ballots in case of a power outage or hard drive crash.

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(hat tip extexasredhead)

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Contact link over at the right.

28 posted on 08/03/2016 5:01:17 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's m ind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
This is why all vote systems must produce a human-readable paper ballot as well as an electronic record. Any system where there is no paper ballot can be reasonably assumed to be rigged.
29 posted on 08/03/2016 7:04:16 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
Student at the University of Iowa pursuing a Ph.D. in computer security, 2002-present.

Huh? Did he or they forget to update his bio? Either that or he is taking more than 14 years to earn his Ph.D.

30 posted on 08/03/2016 8:30:47 AM PDT by ELS
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bttt


31 posted on 08/03/2016 8:35:28 AM PDT by ELS
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To: MarchonDC09122009

bkmk


32 posted on 08/03/2016 10:54:17 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
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