If Israel or Russia are interfering with our elections, then shame on us.

POSTED BY: 1kiki
UPDATED: Monday, August 12, 2019 08:42
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1KIKI

Monday, August 12, 2019 7:02 AM

This is a story that goes all the way back to the 2000 "hanging chad" election, where it was demonstrated how easy it was to rig and hack voting machines and counting machines; and where iirc electronic voting systems exclusively had severe statistical anomalies in the final count.

"Knowing the vote transmissions are going over the internet, the researchers decided to see if they could find the backend internet-connected systems that receive the transmitted votes. They discovered a method of searching for connected ES&S systems after one of their group stumbled across the IP address for an ES&S firewall in Rhode Island in a publicly available document. "

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxzk9/exclusive-critical-us-electi
on-systems-have-been-left-exposed-online-despite-official-denials

Exclusive: Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials
The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet. But researchers found 35 of the systems have been connected to the internet for months and possibly years, including in some swing states.
by Kim Zetter
Aug 8 2019, 10:55am

For years, U.S. election officials and voting machine vendors have insisted that critical election systems are never connected to the internet and therefore can’t be hacked.

But a group of election security experts have found what they believe to be nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states connected to the internet over the last year, including some in critical swing states. These include systems in nine Wisconsin counties, in four Michigan counties, and in seven Florida counties—all states that are perennial battlegrounds in presidential elections.

Some of the systems have been online for a year and possibly longer. Some of them disappeared from the internet after the researchers notified an information-sharing group for election officials last year. But at least 19 of the systems, including one in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, were still connected to the internet this week, the researchers told Motherboard.

Some of the systems were verified voting systems. It appeared to "Kevin Skoglund, an independent security consultant who conducted the research with nine others, all of them long-time security professionals and academics with expertise in election security" that vendors set up the systems without oversight from election officials.

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The systems the researchers found are made by Election Systems & Software, the top voting machine company in the country. They are used to receive encrypted vote totals transmitted via modem from ES&S voting machines on election night, in order to get rapid results that media use to call races, even though the results aren’t final.

Rapid (unofficial) results are transmitted via the internet to an SFTP server behind a Cisco firewall.

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For security reasons, the SFTP server and firewall are only supposed to be connected to the internet for a couple of minutes before an election to test the transmission, and then for long enough after an election to transmit the votes. But the researchers found some of the systems connected to the internet for months at a time, and year-round for others, making them vulnerable to hackers.

This is in contrast to official votes that are tallied from memory cards pulled from the voting machines.

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Generally, votes are stored on memory cards inside the voting machines at polling places. After an election, poll workers remove these and drive them to county election offices.

But hacking through the firewall could be more consequential than merely altering rapid results reports. The hacker could also gain access to official results AND the election-management system.

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JO753

Monday, August 12, 2019 7:13 AM

Interesting, but unreadable.
The pix cauze the text to run past the ej uv the window.
Insted uv posting the entire article, just put in a link.

Also keeps you frum getting hung by your cahones for
copyrite violation.

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1KIKI

Monday, August 12, 2019 8:19 AM

The link is at the top of the quote section.

Hopefully more readable AND shorter!

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, August 12, 2019 8:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JO753:
Interesting, but unreadable.
The pix cauze the text to run past the ej uv the window.
Insted uv posting the entire article, just put in a link.

Also keeps you frum getting hung by your cahones for
copyrite violation.

That's not how it works in 'Merica... at least not yet, anyhow.

If this were "Great" Britain, she'd be in a bit of trouble right now after they passed the Articles.

As to the OP?

Yup. Shame on us.

Shame on us for having a bunch of dumb old jagoffs in the most powerful offices in the country that have no idea how a computer works and only use one because the great people at Apple made it so easy that any retard can use it.

Forget Epstein. Think of how much extremely valuable data these idiots have given away for free because they're absolutely computer illiterate.

Do Right, Be Right. :)