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- technology@lemmy.world
White House officials have for months delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the nation’s voting machines ahead of the November midterms, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further safeguarded by, for example, updating their software, the sources said. It does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping, but examines security gaps in how the machines are used during U.S. elections.
Some White House officials have argued the report could undermine voter confidence, particularly among Republicans. Others have said they do not believe the report goes far enough in supporting Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, the three sources said. Some Democrats said privately they worried Gabbard’s probe into voting machines would be used by the administration to push states to use paper ballots.
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Funfact: Republicans bought Dominion Voting and renamed it to Liberty Votes. Dominion Voting was previously the voting machine provider for U.S. voting - even as States have their own maintenance team (as is my understanding).
Because he’s gonna call on his old pal Elon to help out again.
They want to release it a week or so before the election, then use that as an excuse for draconian voter suppression measures, leaving no time to appeal.
Someone needs to FOIA that stuff ASAP.
My state uses paper scantron ballets. Easy for machines to count and easy paper trail if needed to count by hand. Why is this not the way.
of course.
It says nothing was wrong, the overwhelming majority of attempts to cheat the system have been caught, and are from republicans.
So they’re gonna suppress it until just before the election, where they’ll release some bullshit blaming liberals and illegals, so theres just enough time to enflame the idiots without having the time think about how stupid it is and listen to the debunking
I think with an admin that could be vindicated with a release of this study NOT releasing it tells you all you need to know.
The study likely doesn’t conclude what they’ve been harping for years.
Or it did find evidence of vote manipulation, but not in the direction they have been screeching about. Every accusation is a confession, after all.
I mean yeah, screw it. I wanna believe in the voting system but the guy’s been on calls with state representatives being like “Gimme sum voots.”
Conveniently the whole narrative is about their opponents conveniently cheating? Psh.
Yeah his type only win when they cheat, and you’re right, they’re almost always incompetently, red-handedly, stupidly guilty of whatever they were blowhard accusing the other side of.
Or they found evidence of manipulation, at such a minuscule level that it doesn’t affect election results, but they want to hype it like it’s something that matters, and don’t want to give anyone time to refute their bullshit.
Why, are we working on the final touches as to how it can be rigged?
“Can be rigged” lol
-Elon
Their likely endgame is to ban all the machines that are harder to rig, and mandate the use of the ones that they have already rigged.
They’ll also try to ban more transparent processes such as hand-counting of physical ballots.
I mean, they already bought the machine producer company Dominion Voting in 2025 to rebrand as Liberty Votes.
paywall bullshit
The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further safeguarded by, for example, updating their software, the sources said.
Are voting machines connected to the internet???
I mean, yeah, updating software is nearly always better for security, but why wouldn’t you just run the machines disconnected for max security?
Someone could still get isolated access to one, and it’s not a bad idea to ensure that the firmware is as robustly secure as possible.
The last voting machines I worked on didn’t have Internet connectivity, but they did have a freely accessible PCMCIA card slot for firmware updates.
Voting machines are airgapped in polling places. Patches are most likely deployed from a centralized patch management server wherever they’re stored in the off-season, likely also on an airgapped network.
Likely. Maybe. Should be. Best practice. Most likely.
So the vote goes into a black box, which few understand and which no one can observe, and we are to believe that no one was able to find a way around whatever good actors, policies, and procedures are in place to protect them from tampering?
Right, and they’re NOT building datacenters in order to make computer components so expensive that it prices the average joe out of personal computing and forces cloud serfdom.
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the
Idk about all that anymore. At least my state uses paper ballots.
I imagine they’d just be updated via a USB drive or something similar, no need for a wi-fi adapter.
waiting for the results to see if they want to say they have issues or not.
The only way to prevent all those issues with voting machines is to get rid of them.
There is no way that a voting machine fulfills the demands for a fair, secret, democratic, tamper-resistant vote. It is basically mathematically impossible to perform a proper democratic vote on a machine.
Paper ballots are good you dumb motherfuckers. Fully electronic voting can be rigged with 0 evidence. Fucking one firmware patch that self deletes after polls close is literally all it takes on multiple models from multiple manufacturers who are mostly owned by billionaires now.
FUCK! 🤬 democrats can’t even be pissed off at the right part of this.
Exactly this. You are just telling your vote to someone (some machine) that pinkie promises to count it correctly with no asurance whatsoever.
And to be clear they do make electronic machines with auditable paper. Those are cool.
Assuming it is implemented well, yes! If the audit paper is a QR code that no one will reasonably check, then it is not worth much.
Except the ones that added blockchain…
