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Ed Shorer's avatar

There is a LOT of circumstantial evidence here, and hopefully this alone will lead to further investigations that can deliver the proof needed for remedying the situation. Where are a few whistleblowers when we need them?!?

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Ojas's avatar

This is shocking. I guess I shouldn't be surprised on either end - the lack of standardization or uniformity in the technology, nor the scheming to get access, copy and exploit the technology.

The entire voting infrastructure needs to be overhauled - audited yearly, standardized, hardened and access-controlled to the level of a financial services business. It's appalling.

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Janice Dignum's avatar

See also .@spoonamore on X and YouTube.

Attn: #DeanBlundell #JoyAnnReid here

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DB Main's avatar

Powell and Peters accessing the Dominion machines is a non-issue for two reasons.

First of all, their competence. Even the CyberNinjas of the infamous Maricopa "audit", with all their computer skills, botched the extraction because they didn't know the RAID configuration of the disk array (a redundancy protocol for disks).

Secondly, if they did manage to correctly extract something, it was a binary image. Ones and zeroes. That *could* be reverse assembled, but that only brings you back to executable machine code - not source code. In that form it's unusable to hackers.

That brings up my next point. There's a lot of focus on companies and shady relationships, with the supposition of implied machine fraud. There are up to three audits conducted before and after the election to detect machine hacking and/or vote flipping. The systems themselves have layers of protection. It's my opinion (from refuting MAGA nonsense over the last four years) that machine fraud is so vulnerable to detection, no actor would mount a serious plan to steal an election relying upon it.

Lastly (sorry, my verbosity is a lifelong problem), only one of the 60 lawsuits (as I recollect) had anything to do with Dominion: The Michigan Kraken Case. It was a bizarre mishmash that resulted in 8 lawyers being fined and disbarred. I highly doubt it was part of a grand scheme to gain access to Dominion source code. Ironically, the one lawsuit where (as I recollect) the source code was given over in discovery was Dominion's defamation case against Fox. And even then, the defendants weren't given copies; they were given access via secure terminals so they could review the code but not copy it.

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