I have been learning a tremendous amount over the last 4 days about how electronic voting systems work in the US. It’s honestly a little terrifying how vulnerable to intrusion and manipulation these systems are because of the pieces of the systems that are connected to the internet at large. This is primarily through the servers responsible for disseminating vote information in real-time to the media outlets reporting on the election. I’ve embedded a youtube video in which Russell Ramsland, of a security company named Allied Security Operations, describes how these systems are arranged, and describes vulnerabilities they have identified.
These problems are most evident in the information system used for Dominion Voting Systems (now implicated in several vote count and software “glitches” in Michigan and Georgia). I ask that if anyone else has the time, please watch Mr. Ramsland’s presentation and keep an eye on this. I don’t mean to be hyperbolic, but there could be significant intrusion and manipulation in our electronic vote counts in the 2020 election.
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Thus is the kind of thing that may have allowed the traitors to steal the election. Hidin’ Biden gets 74 MILLION votes?!? Not in any reality you & I inhabit! 100’s of thousands of votes in one big dump, and every single one for Biden? How many ballots with only the presidential pick registered, and each & every one for Biden? And only caught in the swing states? Nope. Not in a million years. Only question is, what we gonna do about it?
“This is primarily through the servers responsible for disseminating vote information in real-time to the media outlets reporting on the election.”
Back in the 80s, before the fall of the Soviet Union, I was a Navy computer tech. The equipment I worked on was part of a system that shared tactical data between all units in a battle group, so that the Admiral in Flag Plot aboard the carrier had a tactical picture that reached over the horizon to the farthest out helo from the farthest out picket ship.
Because this was before the fall of the Soviet Union, we were subject to being followed by “fishing trawlers” with more antennae than the roof of the CIA building. Needless to say, the people who wrote the operating software were some of the most paranoid folks on the face of the Earth. If you want to get a tiny insight into just how paranoid, go to your favorite search engine, put in the search term “one-time pad ciphers,” and do some reading.
As I said, that was over 30 years ago. Those people taught me something, and repeated it to me so many times I can quote it verbatim after all these years. And after all these years, I have never once seen anything to suggest that it is any less true today than it was then:
There is no such animal as network security. Period. It doesn’t exist, and it never will. If it is part of a network, it can be hacked. And yes, that includes the US government internal network that only connects to other parts of itself.
Now, keeping that in mind, and remembering that it was said by people who felt that a network using one-time pad ciphers wasn’t secure, go back and read the sentence I quoted up at the top.
I’m repeating myself, but I’ll say it again. My blue county requires “electronic” voting and there is no paper option or paper backup. Even my signature is done on a screen with my finger, so how the heck can it be verified against my actual signature? It looks nothing like my signature! I have ZERO trust in this voting system. It was designed for fraud.
Like you, I don’t trust it at all, but my polling place here in PA had a nifty little device with a screen that tilted toward me (opposite the poll worker) and had a stylus for signing. So at least my signature looked like the one on file.
We had a card, standard paper size (8.5 x 11), with ovals to be filled in for each race. Had to use an ink pen, which were supplied (no Sharpies like alleged in AZ). I was extremely careful to fill mine out precisely – completely filled in and nothing outside the lines. I put in a vote for every race. The card was then scanned into a machine, recording my vote.
What might have happened to it after that, I have no idea. I’m relatively near but not in Philly, but it’s still Democrat-run PA.
Try: https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/11/06/data-security-specialist-outlines-key-election-system-flaws-and-vulnerabilities/ I searched on: l+todd+wood+interview+with+russell+ramsland+election&t=ffab&atb=v44-1&ia=web and found: ‘https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3902979/posts’. I looked through the comments and found above. Best wishes!
I checked the link. “Video Unavailable.” I searched “L. Todd Wood Russell Ramsland” and got https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ficae6x1Q5A&t=2136s&has_verified=1. Before being able to view, one sees: “This video may be inappropriate for some users.” And: “Age-restricted video (based on Community Guidelines).”
Thank you, Deborah. This is angering at the very least.
Cannot watch it. Asks me to sign in, and I cannot. Google account has been suspended for months with no reason given. Asked to be reinstated and it only stayed I had violated their TOS. Never commented on, posted or uploaded anything. I may have been hacked, but apparently that cannot be appealed.
I watched it on the weekend. (A BWDC member had mentioned it in the comments on another topic.) Informative, if true, and horrifying. Especially re who he’s contacted about what he’s found and how few, if any, have responded. Any ideas on what we could do to help?!
I worked as a computer programmer for 20 years. You can program a computer to do just about anything. Even if ballot counting machine was isolated from the internet, the program on it can, for example do the following: for every “x” (determined randomly) Trump votes, generate “y” (greater tag x by random number or multiple) vote for Biden until Biden is a winner by “z” (generated randomly) and then stop counting. Paper ballots are a must! Even if not rigged, programs do odd things that were not intended. I could do this in my head with five lines of code… Or less, in a program with thousands of lines of code.
True, this. My entire career was in software development. The only correct answer to “Can it do this?” for software is “Yes, depending on how much time and money you want to spend.”
It’s not at all surprising that the voting software used in so many states gave additional votes to Biden. As Harry said, it’s incredibly easy to program it that way. It wouldn’t have taken much of the aforementioned time to do, although it probably took rather more money than normal to bribe the programmers to accept the legal risk of doing it. Unless they were leftist ideologues to begin with.
Me too, if asked if I can program something I always said, “Yes, if given enough time and/or money for third party programs ” Then I’d give an estimate of how long it would take. I always padded the Estimate by at least 50% being a good engineer. Also, better to give an estimate and come in under or on time than give an estimate and go over. And if they changed the parameters of the program, I’d change my estimate. Always hard copied the Estimate and what they asked for and sent email with read an received receipts. Saved my butt more than once.
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Weighing in as yet another software engineer: I agree, there is just so much opportunity for concealed tampering that I have a hard time putting trust in electronic voting systems, as much affection as I may have for technology. A great deal of oversight that I don’t think is currently being practiced would be needed for such systems to deserve and earn trust. Something like the use and adequate public scrutiny of a blockchain ledger for votes, perhaps (this idea came up in either Tim Ferriss Show #473 with Naval Ravikant, or #244 with Nick Szabo; I forget which, but they are both excellent and fascinating episodes I enjoyed recently), though I don’t yet know enough about the subject to conclude whether privacy concerns associated with a public vote ledger could be adequately addressed. Until we have a solid system of some kind sufficient to ensure the integrity of the vote, I think we’re unwisely jumping the gun and putting our future at risk by placing blind trust in the electronic voting systems currently in use.