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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Critical Discovery During Wisconsin Recount: Cellular Connectivity of Tabulators [View all]HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)98. Are we talking about dialup?
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Critical Discovery During Wisconsin Recount: Cellular Connectivity of Tabulators [View all]
Coyotl
Dec 2016
OP
No one gets to see the secret code owned by the ultra-right vote counting corporations.
Coyotl
Dec 2016
#2
they should have done it a long time ago, but they are blocked by GOP every step of the way. nt
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2016
#11
I may get killed here for his but there were anomalies in the democratic primaries
elehhhhna
Dec 2016
#129
You're not going to get killed for saying that. The very fact that Dems don't fight
Nay
Dec 2016
#130
The fact that our voting machines are controlled by "secret propiratary software" is
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2016
#34
And the coders have an agenda, that is not consistent with our secular constitution.
alfredo
Dec 2016
#70
With optical scan tabulators, a recount would make this connectivity meaningless.
Thor_MN
Dec 2016
#17
And possibly a back door in the code. How would we know if we don't get to see the secret code?
Coyotl
Dec 2016
#48
Poll observers looked at the ballots as they came out of the machines and compared the counts to the
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#67
Except, they don't necessarily count every vote, and they aren't double checked by humans.
Coyotl
Dec 2016
#100
I closed an argument with a local elections official, who believed the voting machines were safe,
SharonAnn
Dec 2016
#22
And yet no white hat hackers left one of these machines showing 99999999 for Trump and 0 for Hillary
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#52
Cellular connectivity is available as an option on my CPAP machine too. So what.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#18
Or, you could just use a reputable source. Or a non-right wing source. Use whichever adjective you
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#62
So that's five machines. In a county other than the one in question here.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#74
Hand counting occurred. That's why these optical machines are superior to touchscreens.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#79
what makes you think that the installation of cell capability would be "recorded" anywhere?
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2016
#93
maybe, but who's going to be checking? we can't even get the votes looked at. nt
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2016
#110
The election board handles, inspects, programs, and controls the physical access to these machines.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#125
As I reject the premise that these machines are quite so vulnerable as the other posters in this
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#84
"The seals were broken by the technician who came to install the modem in each machine. . . . ''
ucrdem
Dec 2016
#57
This is exactly the "unintended" flaw that just sank a bill imposing electronic voting in Argentina
tenorly
Dec 2016
#20
I'm sure buying such a thing would be cinch for the GOP and its fellow travelers.
tenorly
Dec 2016
#24
Memory cards in numerous WI voting machines were in fact shown to have been tampered with.
tenorly
Dec 2016
#27
The oengths ppl are going to to deny any weakness in our candidate is breathtaking...
dionysus
Dec 2016
#43
As are the lenghts people are going to insist on attacking the candidate with a historic number
synergie
Dec 2016
#73
Her weakness, IMO lies in hillary the candidate, not the president she would have been.
dionysus
Dec 2016
#88
65 million people, and tens of thousands of others whose votes were not counted
synergie
Dec 2016
#107
Yes, that's a ton of people. However, in a sane country we'd be talking about the biggestst
dionysus
Dec 2016
#120
Kind of tells you how good the "anti-establishment" sales people were. They were just
synergie
Dec 2016
#131
NY uses these machines and I've always vouched for their security. Well shit...
LLStarks
Dec 2016
#47
There are a variety of tried and tested means to hack a mechanical voting system.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#65
Chaining ballots is one of many methods, and could be considered 'hacking'.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#75
Snopes quotes the official admission: "ES&S sent out a technician to install modems in the scanners"
ucrdem
Dec 2016
#90
WI election officials admit they installed modems in the voting machines, per Snopes:
ucrdem
Dec 2016
#91
Because the machines passed physical observation by the poll observers.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2016
#127
A new offshot of an Election Integrity group. Jonathan Simon heads it, I think.
Coyotl
Dec 2016
#114