Problems with Voting Machines Continue to Pile Up

A county in Arkansas and a borough in Alaska just got rid of their electronic voting machines.  After you hear some of the problems machines are causing around the country, you will understand why there is such distrust.

The move in Arkansas came in part because the machines have proprietary software the public cannot examine and, therefore, the public cannot be assured their votes are being properly counted.  The thinking in the Alaska borough is that hand-counting in the precincts before ballots are transported reduces the chances for fraud.

Machine errors were discovered two months after elections, flipping a local race in New Jersey.  A USB flash drive had been read twice, producing the wrong results.  The manufacturer insisted there are fail-safes in the system to prevent this kind of thing from happening, but it was the county that found the error later, during an audit.  And Democrats resist audits, imagine.

A similar problem flipped a city council race in Georgia.  The results changed after uncounted ballots were found on a memory card.

A hand recount flipped another race in Iowa.  A machine recount showed the Democrat won a race for state House.  After reports of machines jamming during counting, a hand recount was ordered, and the Republican was certified the winner.

An expert testified in Kari Lake’s lawsuit in Arizona he was able to hack Dominion and ES&S machines in minutes.  He also said the testing the machines are put through is a joke.

Another problem with Dominion machines was found in Tennessee and Georgia.  An election worker noticed hundreds of ballots removed from a machine did not get counted.  The machine did not signal it was having a problem.  The same problem was found on six other machines in Tennessee and, later, in 64 counties in Georgia.  The state could not find the cause.  The feds couldn’t, either, and the manufacturer couldn’t figure it out.  Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it?

Another expert found a privacy flaw in Dominion machines affecting 21 states.  “Under some circumstances, the flaw could allow members of the public to identify other peoples’ ballots and learn how they voted.”

A county in Pennsylvania sued Dominion after finding a variety of anomalies and vulnerabilities, including foreign databases and unauthorized scripts on the machines.  They also found the machines could be hacked and malicious software installed.  The machines should never have been certified, the suit alleges.

Finally, they keep telling us these machines don’t have modems and can’t connect to the Internet, but a watchdog group in Wisconsin found this is a complete lie.  Machines used in the 2020 elections were connected to a nongovernmental IP address called WiscNet in three separate elections, including November 3, 2020.  A Wisconsin lawmaker is asking some very pointed questions:

  1. Who programmed the tabulators to connect to an unauthorized NGO? And for what purpose?
  2. Why didn’t the firewall detect the devices?
  3. Which public officials knew of the connection?
  4. What took place via the connection?
  5. How many other machines are connected to WiscNet or other NGO?

Good questions.

Why don’t government officials answer them instead of patting us on the head and telling us we have most secure elections ever.

©Christopher Wright. All rights reserved.

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