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Journal by DeathMonkey
Honestly, it's just pointing out the obvious at this point.
But... We all know damn well that if Trump was in this electoral situation right now the race would've been called already.
I wanted to celebrate today!
Getting drunk on a Saturday isn't a celebration. That's just a Saturday....
They would've called it by now if the result was reversed.
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @03:01PM (9 children)
Shill? Or just simple BS??
Neither of your Detroit Free Press links include the word Russia or Russian.
The second one includes this explanation of the mistake, now corrected:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @03:12PM (4 children)
Oh , it was china not russia. But all hardware comes from china so not surprising. https://archive.is/AydjQ [archive.is]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @03:27PM (1 child)
Bullshit. There was a communication error, not a voting machine error. Did you read the article?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @03:40PM
The first sentence:
> A computer error led election officials in Oakland County to hand an upset victory Wednesday to a Democrat, only to switch the win back to an incumbent Republican a day later.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @03:48PM (1 child)
> Oh , it was china not russia.
Stupid shill can't tell the difference between China and Canada. Pro tip [sarcasm], you have to look past the first letter, the other letters in English words also count.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @04:31PM
> Concerns also exist about the companies' software and hardware supply chains. A report released last month by Interos found that at least one major voting system vendor sourced parts and components out of China, where U.S. officials have raised general concerns about supply chain compromise. The report did not identify the vendor, but witnesses from all three of the major manufacturers acknowledged they relied on Chinese-made gear. Lawmakers expressed concerns that such hardware and software could open the door to compromise or sabotage by bad actors.
Burt said his company had a "limited" number of components that come from China, claiming many amounted to plastic or metals that make up the device, not IT. However, he acknowledged that for at least one of ES&S' machines, the DS200, one of its nine programmable logic devices is sourced from a California company that produces the part in China.
Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos and Hart InterCivic President Julie Mathis said their companies use Chinese-made LCD screen components, chip capacitors and resistors, arguing that in some cases there's no option for manufacturing those parts in the United States.
https://gcn.com/articles/2020/01/10/voting-equipment-security-requirements.aspx [gcn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @03:25PM
There is always an "explanation" for "mistakes". There is always someone capable of pulling an explanation out of their ass.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @03:34PM (2 children)
Does it really matter? Utilizing software to count the votes is ripe for mischief. And the first rule of mischief is: "if it is possible to perform, with a low likelyhood of getting caught, it will happen somewhere".
You need to first go read "Reflections on Trusting Trust [win.tue.nl]". Then consider the authors of the software running on the "counting machines". If they followed Ken Thompson's concept from "Reflections on Trusting Trust [win.tue.nl]" all the paper trails from the machines certifying what software versions are running on them would "check out", yet the machines could still contain code that, as it tallies the votes, watches the margins and slowly changes random votes from R to D (or from D to R) in such a way as to effect the final count.
Unless the local poll workers do a hand count to verify, they will be none the wiser that when they dropped a stack of 10000 ballots that were 4000 R's and 6000 D's that the machine counted them as 5500 R's and 4500 D's). They just get a final number (5500 R 4500 D) and report it, even though it is a complete falsehood.
Which is why all the ballots should be counted by hand, with monitors watching from all candidates to verify no funny business. But doing that would not let the entertainment cartel (CNN/MSNBC/FOXNews) broadcast their entertainment shows, so that wont happen.
Next best would be random hand counts of stacks that went through the machine, without the software on the machine knowing this batch is going to be manually hand counted (remember VW's diesel-gate, where the software detected when it was being "tested" and adjusted itself to compensate and pass the test).
So reports of software miss-counting -- you should believe this to be true unless proven by a hand count otherwise, no matter which party benefited from the software miss-counting. It is way to easy to do in software, either purposefully (see Ken Thompson above) or simply by creating buggy software.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2020, @07:50PM (1 child)
These "glitching" voting machines were connected to the internet.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/georgia-election-machine-glitch-434065 [politico.com]
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436 [nbcnews.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 08 2020, @04:20AM
That is even worse. Now someone up to no good does not even have to risk showing their face at the polling place (or counting location) to cause mischief. They can relax in their home on the other side of the world and control the outcome remotely.