In the 1990s, I served on a "Blue Ribbon Committee" that was advising a consortium of Midwest states (WI, MN, IA, SD) reviewing responses to an RFP for voting machines. The most notable item in the RFP was a requirement for a mechanism that would allow the head election official to "correct" vote tallies when "necessary." The mechanism had to bypass the normal audit trail. All of the proposals included such a feature and 'security' was little more than a password.
Of course, I never saw the code behind the machines that were eventually purchased, but I always suspected that a clever hacker could exploit that feature if, in fact, it was actually implemented. Because of that I have always given, "grain of salt" credibility to claims of voting machine-based fraud. davew On Thu, Nov 21, 2024, at 9:37 AM, glen wrote: > • I looked around a bit but couldn't find the code they say is easily > accessible on GitHub. Maybe I just missed it. > > • It's fine to suggest that having the software allows it to be > modified such that it could add a ballot. But we need the > update/install mechanism. Was it sideloaded or did it use a standard > update and the modification was included upstream? I'm too ignorant of > how the tabulation machines work to know how plausible such an attack > is. > > • Why fake bullet ballots? It seems like whatever templating software > is used, it would be just as easy to vote straight ticket. But maybe > there is some issue given state differences? Maybe it's easier to grep > for Trump than it is for Republican? Plus, there's all those > initiatives and non-partisan offices. > > The rest seems reasonable enough for Harris to file a challenge. I > would. Apparently the deadline in NC is tomorrow? > > On 11/20/24 14:30, _ Bruno W wrote: >> Anyone interested in double checking any of this or look at different >> statistics. >> I think it would be good to check that voter preference does correlate with >> voting machine vendor. >> I was able to get data from Michigan, have not looked beyond there yet. >> But the data will need to be reformatted to be useful... >> https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. > / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
