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Dominion voting machines use human-readable printed ballots as a backup auditing mechanism. In all of the disputed states these paper ballots were hand counted
by CydeWeys 6y ago
Dominion voting machines use human-readable printed ballots as a backup auditing mechanism. In all of the disputed states these paper ballots were hand counted (sometimes multiple times) and the original electronically reported results were confirmed.
So how are these voting machines complete bullshit exactly? What do you think the mechanism of attack is, and do you have any sources other than just your speculation?
- chaganated 6y agoThey run on MS Windows, and an assorted pile of shitware a mile deep. Bullshit passed through an HP LaserJet is still bullshit. And why on earth does a voting machine require OggVorbis? https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/voting_system/files/Dominion_Voting_Systems_D-Suite_5.5_Test_Report_Rev_A.pdf https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/voting_system/files/...
- covidthrow 6y agoPossibly for accessibility features for the blind?
- chaganated 6y agoBraille is simpler, and does not require thousands of lines of code, which could obscure all sorts of malicious payload. I have a bridge to sell to anyone who thinks Dominion has actually audited any of these external dependencies.
- CydeWeys 6y agoBraille is also, famously, very expensive as a computer interface relative to audio (e.g. https://www.boundlessat.com/Blindness/Braille-Displays/Brailliant https://www.boundlessat.com/Blindness/Braille-Displays/Brail... ), plus not as many people can use it as can use audio.
- chaganated 6y agoWhy must everything involve the computer? It was on paper when I was a kid, didn't require an army of six-figure salaries, and things seemed to go far more smoothly.
- CydeWeys 6y agoAnd it's still on paper, just now with some electronic augmentation that makes vote counting instant and lowers the error rate. Do you not remember how problematic the purely paper voting systems were? How many errors were made in the voting and the counts and how long it took to get the final results in close elections? Florida 2000 is a famous, widely-known example. The computers are clearly better.
- chaganated 6y agoSo, the people who can't get hole-punching and ballot layout right are going to "fix" things with two programming languages, three databases, and a dozen or so support libraries? Also, Florida 2000 is a strange example, considering the present drama. We've only gone from a simple controversy to a more complex one. Per Bruce Schneier: > If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems, and you don't understand the technology.
- covidthrow 6y agoIf I give you $100 to put in my bank account, and you print off your own receipt that my $100 made it into the account, what exactly does that prove? Now let's pretend you don't even give me that receipt, but you just keep it for your own accounting. I later find my $100 isn't in my account. But hey, you have a receipt you printed that says you put it in my account. If you're honest, this system works. If I can't trust you, then the receipt is meaningless.
- dukeofdoom 6y agoThis has the actual data for the hand recount. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/19/us/elections/georgia-recount.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/19/us/elections/... In Floyd county more than 2,000 votes switched sides out of roughly 40,000 votes. So it now has a real world demonstrated error rate of 0.5% which is not insignificant. For example, I would not trust a calculator with a 0.5% error to do my taxes. I wouldn't even us it on an exam.
- spankalee 6y agoNo votes switched sides. Missing votes were added to both sides because of missing memory cards, or because: > Floyd County officials discovered about 2,400 ballots that election workers neglected to rescan after a scanner failed and results could not be retrieved from memory cards. Officials attributed the error to “gross incompetence” on the part of the county’s elections director.
- darkfirefly 6y agohttps://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2027/voting-village-report-defcon27.pdf https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2027/voting-village-repor...