“Forty-three percent of American voters use voting machines that researchers have found have serious security flaws including backdoors. These companies are accountable to no one. They won’t answer basic questions about their cyber security practices and the biggest companies won’t answer any questions at all. Five states have no paper trail and that means there is no way to prove the numbers the voting machines put out are legitimate. So much for cyber-security 101… The biggest seller of voting machines is doing something that violates cyber-security 101, directing that you install remote-access software which would make a machine like that a magnet for fraudsters and hackers.”
This statement was said by Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., during a March 21, 2018, U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, one of the numerous hearings that Congress convened to discuss election security following the 2016 election.
Wyden, his congressional colleagues, and the corporate media would spend much of the next four years discussing their many concerns about the security of the U.S. election system.
Computerized voting in the United States is largely a secretive and privately-run affair conducted out of the public eye with very little oversight.
The corporations that run every aspect of America’s elections, from voter registration to casting and counting votes, are subject to limited regulation and public scrutiny.
The companies are privately-owned, making information about ownership, finances, and technology difficult to obtain.
The software source code and hardware design are kept as trade secrets and therefore difficult to study or investigate.
With both major parties doubting the integrity of the last two elections, the voting machine vendors have lost the trust of the American people. And, deservedly so.
Considering J.P. Morgan, Facebook, and the Pentagon have all been hacked in recent years, it is illogical to believe that voting machine manufacturers working on limited budgets are somehow immune to cyber intrusions.
Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., discussed her concerns with the three main voting machine manufacturers in the 2020 HBO Documentary, Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections:
“We’re very concerned because there are only three companies. You could easily hack into them. It makes it seem like all these states are doing different things, but in fact, three companies are controlling them.”
Elections Systems & Software, Dominion Voting, and Hart Intercivic account for about ninety percent of U.S. election equipment. These vendors supply the equipment at the epicenter of America’s elections: more here
No standing!
The mantra of cowards.
Good
Phucking with the elections should be punishable by death.
Unfortunately, even if the punishment was a slap on the wrist….that wouldn’t happen either.
Proof positive we have lost control of OUR government.
My father never voted. When I asked him why, he told me a story of how back in the 40’s he and his cousin were paid to drive a truck with 3 voting machines on it to a warehouse right after the election.
Democracy is for suckers
ESPECIALLY BETWEEN 3 &4AM!!!!
@The Ancient Greeks who discovered it April 5, 2022 at 10:21 pm
> Democracy is for suckers
Republics are for divers.