Pen-testing is part of good security…
…but let’s be real, anyone who believes Trump won’t exploit this rather than patch it is delusional.
Both GW Bush in 2000, and Trump in 2016, lost the popular vote yet won the electoral college. They went on to appoint the conservative majority to the Supreme Court. The system has already been subverted with no meaningful attempts at reform.
Yeah, this election is gonna be stolen for sure… And guess what, Muricans will do nothing about it. They will throw their hands in the air and say “well, I tried”.
They already should have done something when their brain dead / brainwashed compatriots elected a CHILD-RAPING FELON, but nope. Sure, he was (possibly) “fairly” elected, that doesn’t mean you can’t show your “dissatisfaction” for it.
I read a story yesterday about Dolly Parton’s sister and a few others saying they watched their votes for a democrat switch to the republican candidate before their eyes. She said she had to try it 3 times before it registered the correct vote. Though I have no more information than that I find this extremely troubling knowing with certainty that Trump and his enablers are completely willing to do this and worse in order to stay in power. Pay very close attention when you’re voting.
That isn’t really what is at risk, that’s just a MAGA poll worker deliberately sabotaging the touch screen calibration. It might be an attempt at election theft, but what Trump is seeking to do is much more covert and you won’t even notice it. They will try to see if and where they can flip the tallies and mess with the paper trail if there is any, and that’s only on one of the levels he will be trying to steal the midterms.
November 2023 repeat with another minor update.
The administration wanted a voting machine hacked, but DOGE had already fired the experts capable of doing it. Apparently the one thing stopping a potential election conspiracy was Elon Musk’s ability to make government incompetent at absolutely everything. Task failed successfully.
They just went private
Normally vulnerability testing would be a good thing, but in this case I think it’s safe to assume the worst motivations for it.
Go for it, they will choose the most inexperienced losers and it will blow up in their face. Like the doctored Epstein footage with the movie maker marks
It’s the old projection thing again.
Republicans: the Dems hacked voting machines and stole the election! Lock them up!
Also Republicans: we hacked a voting machine so we can steal the election.
Pssst… They did it in 2016, and 2024. The only reason 2020 didn’t work was the massive amount of mail in ballots. Vlad helped, and now they are just making extra sure their cheats worked.
https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/19/mitch-mcconnells-re-election-the-numbers-dont-add-up/
To be clear, I don’t necessary “believe” Republican fraud occurred. I do think there were enough statistical anomalies to warrant investigation, and that that didn’t happen because Trump put the Democrats fully in defensive mode by distracting them with spurious investigations elsewhere.
Can’t wait for stories like this to suddenly just disappear in November when Republicans somehow - miraculously! - barely squeek out enough votes to secure key races at the very las second.
And somehow, the polls will all be wrong and we’ll all scratch our heads how that happened.
Must be because Republicans don’t answer pollsters! 🙃
Lol… With this administration? They’ll probably just report that they recieved 10x whatever the other party gets and brag about how big America must be to get more votes than citizens.
Read between the lines
?? Which lines are you implying? It’s blaringly obvious what the goal is, I was merely remarking at the incompetence of the current administration and likelihood of them doing it very badly.
Source article for anyone wanting the original: https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump
He’s just going to ask Elon to do it for him instead
Or maybe he has a relative who’s good with the cyber.
Of course they hacked voting machines to audit their security. Apart from that, voting machines can’t fulfill the transparency requirements of democratic elections on principle. So just not using them would be better anyway.
Wtf
The first stone has fallen out of the wall. I hope it leads to more. If you look at the various numerical anomalies that occurred in swing states only, it becomes very plausible that Harris actually won.
- Mail-in votes closely reflected polling, but election-night voting (i.e. on the machines) contradicted the polls.
- Split-ticket voting occurred much more often than usual - in this case, ballots with a vote for Trump and votes for Democrats the rest of the way. This does happen in elections, but not nearly to the degree it happened in the swing states.
- The anomalies were always enough for Trump to win, but just below the thresholds that would trigger automatic audits.
Can we start compiling the evidence this stuff somewhere? Like I definitely believe voting got fucked up but whenever I want to talk about it to someone or bring attention to it I struggle to find a good resource for it.
Quick edit: And I struggle to keep my facts straight particularly because im super busy but also because of lack of solid reference
Somebody must be but I don’t know who. The things I listed came from a statistician who had various graphs and charts with historical data, illustrating why the voting was “anomalous”. I don’t remember his name and can’t find him now. All he could do was show how the data, particularly the precision with which anomalous Trump votes were just enough to win but not too much, that painted a picture of someone carefully adjusting the vote on election night. The voting machines also had automated operating system updates shortly before the election, and additional updates shortly after, creating a plausible scenario of software hacks being inserted and removed. So far there has been no hard evidence that anything happened, but the more people who are involved in something the more likely it is that things will happen between them later that motivate some to come forward.
This is an inherent flaw of digital voting machines. One has to trust their integrity which only can be confirmed by a few specialists. By design, that is a lot simpler to undermine than a system that relies on a huge number of people where almost anyone who wants to is capable of taking part in securing the integrity of the vote.
No self respecting democracy should use them.
And, as a bonus, the old school method has a tremendously low error rate.
I remember an article in a renowned computer mag about 20 years ago measuring error rates. The newest and greatest voting machine, at the time, still had way worse error rates than hand counting. Never mind everything that was around before. Maybe the most modern systems can achieve the same error rates as hand counting, dunno, haven’t been keeping up.
I was absolutely floored with how bad the error rates of lever operated mechanical machines used to be. How anyone accepted those anywhere near a democracy was beyond me.
Hey its 2026! just ask AI who should win based on popular vibe, and be done with.
We call it vibe voting
There was a story recently about how a lot of voters are just asking AI who they should vote for. So vibe voting is effectively happening. Good job the AI companies aren’t all run by fascists or anything.
