Bonum Certa Men Certa

The High Cost of Making Scepticism of Proprietary Voting Machines a "Trump" and "Conspiracy Theory" Territory

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2024,
updated Nov 07, 2024

Time to get back to paper? Or read an old paper?

2015: How Microsoft Squashed Free/Open Source Software in Voting Systems in the United States

2016:

Russia Targeted Election Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds

2019:

The dangers of saying Russia 'hacked' the 2016 election

2022: Critics of Voting Machines (Proprietary With Back Doors) Aren't Nazis

2023: Just Because Fox 'News' Lost (or Settled) Doesn't Mean Voting Machines Are Safe or Acceptable

Before the election this week: Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines

It certainly seems like - based on hard evidence and press reports in fact - an "enlarged" BRICS is going in and out of Western computer systems, including systems of the US Government. This past year alone, thanks to Microsoft's incompetence, both the Russians and Chinese (independently) took over systems of the US Government. How come we barely hear about this anymore and instead see "Linux" shamed (even over Windows issues)? "Or tricked into using unauditable 'voting' machines with Microsoft / CALEA backdoors," an associate added, citing this news. It seems like the Russians and Chinese have long taken advantage of the back doors of Microsoft and the NSA. Where's the media outrage about these back doors? Gone the moment Snowden was naturalised in Russia? As if that somehow makes the problem a thing of the past?

Democrats cannot contest election results right now because that would put them in the same class as "conspiracy theorists" they worked overtime to discredit. Overall, we've seen too many election cycles in the US where proprietary machines determined final outcomes.

This is not a good thing. At all!

"Apropos 'voting' machine," the associate said, votingvillage.org is "ironically poisoned by javascript" (alternative URLs exist).

"Some really big names [are in this paper], yet the topic is now taboo and the security went unaddressed and the subject now associated with cranks and trumpanzees despite decades of documented evidence that the systems are not the least secure."

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