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This story is wild. The headline is about the machines, but the article is really about some strange corruption within the department that led up to the breach:
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
This story is wild. The headline is about the machines, but the article is really about some strange corruption within the department that led up to the breach:
> Griswold also said that one week before the breach, Peters ordered her staff to turn off the video surveillance system that monitors the voting machines and that it was only recently turned back on.
Somehow they ended up with an unauthorized person attending a procedure to update the machines, which then resulted in video and other information being posted to a QAnon-affiliated blog.
Replacing the potentially compromised machines is a good move, but it seems like the real story is that something has gone very wrong inside this government office.
- maxwell 5y agoWhy replace the machines instead of using paper ballots?
- saryant 5y agoAll of Colorado uses paper ballots. These machines are only used to tabulate paper ballots. Each election is then followed by a risk-limiting audit to ensure the machines’ accuracy.
- pm90 5y agoIt frankly seems like a deliberate sabotage. It doesn’t help that the county clerk is apparently attending a QAnon conspiracy conference at the moment. Any election official that shows allegiance to such theories should be summarily banned from ever holding public office.
- rsynnott 5y ago> Peters ordered her staff to turn off the video surveillance system that monitors the voting machines and that it was only recently turned back on. This is probably about the point where you should ask your boss's boss "is this okay?" rather than just following orders, tbh. The whole thing is bizarre.