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Fox News Heir James Murdoch Reportedly Was a Major Anti-Trump Force, Spent Millions Opposing His 2020 Bid
READ: http://w-j.co/s/d511b
READ: http://w-j.co/s/d511b
The Western Journal
Fox News Heir James Murdoch Reportedly Was a Major Anti-Trump Force, Spent Millions Opposing His 2020 Bid
The youngest son of Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch spent $100 million to boost Joe Biden's campaign and other liberal causes.
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Two of the most effective weapons in psychological warfare are discouragement and demoralization. If they can discourage and demoralize you, you will likely stop fighting. That is why we want to encourage you twice a week that we are WINNING on many fronts!
Good News of the Week, June 9, 2021:
1. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has announced that he will vote against Democrats’ sweeping election reform bill, “For the People Act.” He has faced expected Democrat backlash for this, but he is not being swayed.
2. As of Wednesday afternoon, 80% of the ballots have been counted in the Maricopa County, AZ audit.
3. Delegates from six states –PA, GA, CO, AK, VA and NV–have already visited the Arizona audit facility. Delegates from other states will tour the facility later in the week.
4. Several people have been subpoenaed in Fulton County, Georgia, for their activities in the 2020 election. These include Ruby Freeman, who was caught on tape scanning ballots multiple times and her daughter, Shaye Moss, who told GOP observers to go home and then pulled suitcases of ballots out from under a table.
5. The Georgia GOP approved a resolution to censure Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for failing to perform his duties and for undermining the security of the 2020 election in Georgia.
6. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that increased the penalty for intentionally altering ballots or election reports to a second-degree felony. These crimes can now land people in jail for up to 20 years.
7. The border town of McAllen, TX, which is 85% Hispanic, elected their first Republican mayor in 24 years. Republicans also held two other mayoral seats in the DFW area and had major wins in DFW-area school board races amid a raging battle over critical race theory.
8. President Trump was back in campaign mode mode at the NC GOP State Convention Saturday and millions of people tuned in to watch. More than two million watched on RSBN and 1.8M watched on Newsmax. You can watch the full speech on RSBNetwork.com.
9. Social media’s censorship and bans have not hindered President Trump from getting his messages out. According to a NY Times analysis, 11 of his 89 statements after the bans have attracted as many likes or shares as before he was banned.
10. The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that immigrants who entered our Country illegally and then were granted Temporary Protected Status are not eligible to apply for “green cards” to remain in the US permanently. If someone enters the US illegally, they will not be rewarded with permanent citizenship.
11. Kamala Harris traveled to Guatemala to discuss the border crisis with their president. She was greeted with huge banners of, “Kamala, TRUMP WON,” “Kamala Go Home” and “Kamala Mind Your own Business.” Guatemala’s president blamed Biden’s change in Trump’s message for the rapid border crisis.
12. The criminal investigation into NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “cover-up” of COVID-19 deaths at state nursing homes continues. Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed communications, contracts and documents used during the pitching process of his memoir to aid their investigation.
13. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to protect individual rights. He threatened to enforce FL law on cruise companies which would fine them $5,000 every time they asked for proof of vaccination. This forced Royal Caribbean to change its stance. You may now sail with them unvaccinated.
14. Governor DeSantis went on the offense and signed two bills that will combat the influence of foreign adversaries. One bill bans Confucius Institutes on university and college campuses, and the other creates new criminal offenses for the theft and trafficking of trade secrets.
15. The United Nations has suspended Iran’s voting rights after it failed to pay $16M in dues.
16. The best news of all is that Jesus laid down His life for you and me. Jesus said, “As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down My life for the sheep.” John 10:15
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Good News of the Week, June 9, 2021:
1. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has announced that he will vote against Democrats’ sweeping election reform bill, “For the People Act.” He has faced expected Democrat backlash for this, but he is not being swayed.
2. As of Wednesday afternoon, 80% of the ballots have been counted in the Maricopa County, AZ audit.
3. Delegates from six states –PA, GA, CO, AK, VA and NV–have already visited the Arizona audit facility. Delegates from other states will tour the facility later in the week.
4. Several people have been subpoenaed in Fulton County, Georgia, for their activities in the 2020 election. These include Ruby Freeman, who was caught on tape scanning ballots multiple times and her daughter, Shaye Moss, who told GOP observers to go home and then pulled suitcases of ballots out from under a table.
5. The Georgia GOP approved a resolution to censure Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for failing to perform his duties and for undermining the security of the 2020 election in Georgia.
6. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that increased the penalty for intentionally altering ballots or election reports to a second-degree felony. These crimes can now land people in jail for up to 20 years.
7. The border town of McAllen, TX, which is 85% Hispanic, elected their first Republican mayor in 24 years. Republicans also held two other mayoral seats in the DFW area and had major wins in DFW-area school board races amid a raging battle over critical race theory.
8. President Trump was back in campaign mode mode at the NC GOP State Convention Saturday and millions of people tuned in to watch. More than two million watched on RSBN and 1.8M watched on Newsmax. You can watch the full speech on RSBNetwork.com.
9. Social media’s censorship and bans have not hindered President Trump from getting his messages out. According to a NY Times analysis, 11 of his 89 statements after the bans have attracted as many likes or shares as before he was banned.
10. The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that immigrants who entered our Country illegally and then were granted Temporary Protected Status are not eligible to apply for “green cards” to remain in the US permanently. If someone enters the US illegally, they will not be rewarded with permanent citizenship.
11. Kamala Harris traveled to Guatemala to discuss the border crisis with their president. She was greeted with huge banners of, “Kamala, TRUMP WON,” “Kamala Go Home” and “Kamala Mind Your own Business.” Guatemala’s president blamed Biden’s change in Trump’s message for the rapid border crisis.
12. The criminal investigation into NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “cover-up” of COVID-19 deaths at state nursing homes continues. Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed communications, contracts and documents used during the pitching process of his memoir to aid their investigation.
13. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to protect individual rights. He threatened to enforce FL law on cruise companies which would fine them $5,000 every time they asked for proof of vaccination. This forced Royal Caribbean to change its stance. You may now sail with them unvaccinated.
14. Governor DeSantis went on the offense and signed two bills that will combat the influence of foreign adversaries. One bill bans Confucius Institutes on university and college campuses, and the other creates new criminal offenses for the theft and trafficking of trade secrets.
15. The United Nations has suspended Iran’s voting rights after it failed to pay $16M in dues.
16. The best news of all is that Jesus laid down His life for you and me. Jesus said, “As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down My life for the sheep.” John 10:15
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A second important thread on the theft of the 2020 election, with #receipts
Hat 🎩 tip @CrazyIsContagious
https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1403157629812232192?s=28
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https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1403157629812232192?s=28
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@is_contagious Hello, here is your unroll: So gonna do a short (hopefully) explanatory thread on the GA election… threadreaderapp.com/thread/1398660… Enjoy :) 🤖
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Josh Merritt connects the dots on election fraud around the globe.
Some of the topics discussed:
-Indonesia, Mongolia, Africa, ME
-Smartmatic, Dominion, GEMS, UN
-David Brock FOXACID 2016
-Epstein & Blackmail Operations
-Hammer & Scorecard
-Mike Lindell's "Absolutely 9-0"
-Italy Leonardo Cellular Modem
-Perkins Coie Russian Dossier
-Perkins Coie Election Audits
-Facebook Influence With CTCL
-Problem New Hampshire Audit
-Verified Voting Paragon Group
-Paragon Group Owns Scytl
-Mafia Auditing The Mafia
-US v. Throckmorton
-Fraud Vitiates Everything
-100 Million America First
"Once the fraud comes out, this is a criminal conspiracy that will make the Mafia look like a boy's club."
"The largest voter fraud organization in American history" - Joe Biden
https://www.electiontaskforce.org/members
Full Video:
https://rumble.com/vi7wlr-ep-2480-6pm-next-2-3-weeks-will-be-explosive-well-soon-know-that-the-electi.html
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Some of the topics discussed:
-Indonesia, Mongolia, Africa, ME
-Smartmatic, Dominion, GEMS, UN
-David Brock FOXACID 2016
-Epstein & Blackmail Operations
-Hammer & Scorecard
-Mike Lindell's "Absolutely 9-0"
-Italy Leonardo Cellular Modem
-Perkins Coie Russian Dossier
-Perkins Coie Election Audits
-Facebook Influence With CTCL
-Problem New Hampshire Audit
-Verified Voting Paragon Group
-Paragon Group Owns Scytl
-Mafia Auditing The Mafia
-US v. Throckmorton
-Fraud Vitiates Everything
-100 Million America First
"Once the fraud comes out, this is a criminal conspiracy that will make the Mafia look like a boy's club."
"The largest voter fraud organization in American history" - Joe Biden
https://www.electiontaskforce.org/members
Full Video:
https://rumble.com/vi7wlr-ep-2480-6pm-next-2-3-weeks-will-be-explosive-well-soon-know-that-the-electi.html
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MARICOPA🚨
CyFIR is a DHS certified "hunt and incident response team". They are "high-end cyber hackers" and if they say some files got deleted off of the Maricopa servers then you should take that to the bank.
Why are the Maricopa County chain-of-custody documents missing❓
Pro V&V and SLI Compliance, the two companies certifying election equipment for the entire country are glorified shell companies long affiliated with the voting machine companies they are said to be monitoring.
These companies run rudimentary "logic and accuracy test" before and after elections without doing forensic audits of the machines or the election.
The Maricopa Audit is the most comprehensive election audit in modern history with a full forensic audit of the Election Management System, precinct tabulators, adjudication machines, ballot images, storage media, audit logs, 2.1 million paper ballots, voter registration files, etc.
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CyFIR is a DHS certified "hunt and incident response team". They are "high-end cyber hackers" and if they say some files got deleted off of the Maricopa servers then you should take that to the bank.
Why are the Maricopa County chain-of-custody documents missing❓
Pro V&V and SLI Compliance, the two companies certifying election equipment for the entire country are glorified shell companies long affiliated with the voting machine companies they are said to be monitoring.
These companies run rudimentary "logic and accuracy test" before and after elections without doing forensic audits of the machines or the election.
The Maricopa Audit is the most comprehensive election audit in modern history with a full forensic audit of the Election Management System, precinct tabulators, adjudication machines, ballot images, storage media, audit logs, 2.1 million paper ballots, voter registration files, etc.
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EASTER EGGS🚨
White hat hackers have discovered "Easter eggs" in the voting machines.
An "Easter egg" is a hidden feature or command in a video game.
These hidden commands are not mentioned in user manuals.
An election official with knowledge of this "Easter egg" could hit a combination of buttons and get this specific model of machine to hypothetically stop counting Republican votes, Democrat votes, etc.
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White hat hackers have discovered "Easter eggs" in the voting machines.
An "Easter egg" is a hidden feature or command in a video game.
These hidden commands are not mentioned in user manuals.
An election official with knowledge of this "Easter egg" could hit a combination of buttons and get this specific model of machine to hypothetically stop counting Republican votes, Democrat votes, etc.
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AMERICA PROJECT🚨
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn explains why it's important to support Patrick Byrne's America Project.
The GOP isn't paying for forensic audits.
States aren't paying for forensic audits.
The America Project is actually paying in large quantity for the Maricopa County audit.
"I know that your audience loves this country as I do and as Patrick Byrne does and if they can find it in themselves to help us out and the America Project that will go a long way because it won't just be Arizona it's about all of these other states."
https://americaproject.com/
https://fundtheaudit.com/
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Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn explains why it's important to support Patrick Byrne's America Project.
The GOP isn't paying for forensic audits.
States aren't paying for forensic audits.
The America Project is actually paying in large quantity for the Maricopa County audit.
"I know that your audience loves this country as I do and as Patrick Byrne does and if they can find it in themselves to help us out and the America Project that will go a long way because it won't just be Arizona it's about all of these other states."
https://americaproject.com/
https://fundtheaudit.com/
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MARICOPA🚨
Josh Barnett is saying that the "actual number is way off" from the 2.1 million ballots that are supposed to be there.
Christina Bobb said that they will likely find “substantially less” than 2.1 million ballots.
Boris Epshteyn said that 25% or more of the boxes are missing ballots.
In other words, Maricopa County's election officials fought a court ordered-subpoena for 5-months, then refused to turn over their election routers, didn't turn over chain of custody documentation, deleted an election database, don't have their admin passwords for their voting machines, didn't properly seal their ballots, and they are also missing a substantial amount of Maricopa County's 2.1 million ballots.
All in a state that was decided by 10,475 votes.
Am I missing anything else about how Maricopa County ran the "most safe and secure election ever" in American history❓
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Josh Barnett is saying that the "actual number is way off" from the 2.1 million ballots that are supposed to be there.
Christina Bobb said that they will likely find “substantially less” than 2.1 million ballots.
Boris Epshteyn said that 25% or more of the boxes are missing ballots.
In other words, Maricopa County's election officials fought a court ordered-subpoena for 5-months, then refused to turn over their election routers, didn't turn over chain of custody documentation, deleted an election database, don't have their admin passwords for their voting machines, didn't properly seal their ballots, and they are also missing a substantial amount of Maricopa County's 2.1 million ballots.
All in a state that was decided by 10,475 votes.
Am I missing anything else about how Maricopa County ran the "most safe and secure election ever" in American history❓
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Our foreign owned voting machine companies use hardware made in China and proprietary software originated in Venezuela to send our votes to be counted by Spanish shell companies with backup servers in Germany❗
Why are we running our elections like this❓
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Why are we running our elections like this❓
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This is exactly what we’ve been asking IRT the November election. Why won’t the media tell people that the same EXACT voting pattern appeared all across the country?
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Imagine that I enter your county and roll a twenty-sided die 83 times, recording the series of numbers.
Then I step into the next county and roll the die 83 times again, yielding the *same* series of 83 numbers.
I repeat this process in all eighty-eight Ohio counties, yielding the same series of numbers every time in every county.
The same 83 numbers, 88 times in a row.
Someone says to me, “Show me the proof that die is rigged.”
I show them the 88 lists of numbers, all identical, one list recorded while in every county.
They say, “But how do you know that is not natural?”
Then I step into the next county and roll the die 83 times again, yielding the *same* series of 83 numbers.
I repeat this process in all eighty-eight Ohio counties, yielding the same series of numbers every time in every county.
The same 83 numbers, 88 times in a row.
Someone says to me, “Show me the proof that die is rigged.”
I show them the 88 lists of numbers, all identical, one list recorded while in every county.
They say, “But how do you know that is not natural?”
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There is over two decades of research on the benefit of taking vitamin c, vitamin d, and zinc for the prevention and treatment of respiratory viruses.
There have been numerous studies showing the benefit of taking hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2.
Especially, in the early stages of the virus.
Without going into the details of the fake studies based on bad science funded by Bill Gates and Jeremy Farrar or the complete fabrication of the Lancet study used to demonize hydroxychloroquine.
For all of the trillions that the federal reserve printed and the federal government handed out, how much would it have cost and how many lives would have been saved if kits of vitamin c, vitamin d, zinc, hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin were sent to every American citizen above the age of 50 at the start of this all❓
All were off-patent, mass produced, readily available, and cost pennies per dose.
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There have been numerous studies showing the benefit of taking hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV-2.
Especially, in the early stages of the virus.
Without going into the details of the fake studies based on bad science funded by Bill Gates and Jeremy Farrar or the complete fabrication of the Lancet study used to demonize hydroxychloroquine.
For all of the trillions that the federal reserve printed and the federal government handed out, how much would it have cost and how many lives would have been saved if kits of vitamin c, vitamin d, zinc, hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin were sent to every American citizen above the age of 50 at the start of this all❓
All were off-patent, mass produced, readily available, and cost pennies per dose.
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A short segment from a recent interview with Col. Phil Waldron on what happened during the 2020 Presidential election, where we are now, and where we go from here.
Dominion Voting Systems and ES&S control more than 80% of the voting machines in the United States.
A CCP-owned bank invested $400 million into Dominion a month before the 2020 election and Michigan attorney Matthew Deperno revealed that certain ES&S voting machines contained a Telit modem chip installed on their motherboard.
CCP-linked billionaire Yuxiang Yang is the largest shareholder of Telit and a member of the board of directors.
I highly recommend listening to the whole interview!
Full Interview-Rumble:
https://rumble.com/viapp7-digital-1776-talks-to-col-phil-waldron.html
Full Interview-YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xVFbEbrgL8
Deperno Documents:
https://www.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/ex_5-10.pdf
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Dominion Voting Systems and ES&S control more than 80% of the voting machines in the United States.
A CCP-owned bank invested $400 million into Dominion a month before the 2020 election and Michigan attorney Matthew Deperno revealed that certain ES&S voting machines contained a Telit modem chip installed on their motherboard.
CCP-linked billionaire Yuxiang Yang is the largest shareholder of Telit and a member of the board of directors.
I highly recommend listening to the whole interview!
Full Interview-Rumble:
https://rumble.com/viapp7-digital-1776-talks-to-col-phil-waldron.html
Full Interview-YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xVFbEbrgL8
Deperno Documents:
https://www.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/ex_5-10.pdf
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Why has the New York Times suddenly reversed face on their long held complaint that our voting machines are a threat to democracy?
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A few segments from a 2018 New York Times article.
The entire system — a Rube Goldberg mix of poorly designed machinery, from websites and databases that registered and tracked voters, to electronic poll books that verified their eligibility, to the various black-box systems that recorded, tallied and reported results — was vulnerable.
They don’t address core vulnerabilities in voting machines or the systems used to program them. And they ignore the fact that many voting machines that elections officials insist are disconnected from the internet — and therefore beyond the reach of hackers — are in fact accessible by way of the modems they use to transmit vote totals on election night. Add to this the fact that states don’t conduct robust postelection audits — a manual comparison of paper ballots to digital tallies is the best method we have to detect when something has gone wrong in an election — and there’s a good chance we simply won’t know if someone has altered the digital votes in the next election.
How did our election system get so vulnerable, and why haven’t officials tried harder to fix it? The answer, ultimately, comes down to politics and money: The voting machines are made by well-connected private companies that wield immense control over their proprietary software, often fighting vigorously in court to prevent anyone from examining it when things go awry. In Ohio in 2004, for example, where John Kerry lost the presidential race following numerous election irregularities, Kerry’s team was denied access to the voting-machine software. “We were told by the court that you were not able to get that algorithm to check it, because it was proprietary information,” Kerry recalled in a recent interview on WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show.” He was understandably rueful, arguing how wrong it was that elections are held under “the purview of privately owned machines, where the public doesn’t have the right to know whether the algorithm has been checked or whether they’re hackable or not. And we now know they are hackable.”
There are roughly 350,000 voting machines in use in the country today, all of which fall into one of two categories: optical-scan machines or direct-recording electronic machines. Each of them suffers from significant security problems.
The paper ballot, in theory, provides an audit trail that can be used to verify digital tallies. But not all states perform audits, and many that do simply run the paper ballots through a scanner a second time. Fewer than half the states do manual audits, and they typically examine ballots from randomly chosen precincts in a county, instead of a percentage of ballots from all precincts. If the randomly chosen precincts aren’t ones where hacking occurred or where machines failed to accurately record votes, an audit won’t reveal anything — nor will it always catch problems with early-voting, overseas or absentee ballots, all of which are often scanned in county election offices, not in precincts.
The voting-machine industry — an estimated $300-million-a-year business — has long been as troubling as the machines it makes, known for its secrecy, close political ties (overwhelmingly to the Republican Party) and a revolving door between vendors and election offices. More than a dozen companies currently sell voting equipment, but a majority of machines used today come from just four — Diebold Election Systems, Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems. Diebold (later renamed Premier) and Sequoia are now out of business. Diebold’s machines and customer contracts were sold to ES&S and a Canadian company called Dominion, and Dominion also acquired Sequoia. This means that more than 80 percent of the machines in use today are under the purview of three companies — Dominion, ES&S and Hart InterCivic.
The entire system — a Rube Goldberg mix of poorly designed machinery, from websites and databases that registered and tracked voters, to electronic poll books that verified their eligibility, to the various black-box systems that recorded, tallied and reported results — was vulnerable.
They don’t address core vulnerabilities in voting machines or the systems used to program them. And they ignore the fact that many voting machines that elections officials insist are disconnected from the internet — and therefore beyond the reach of hackers — are in fact accessible by way of the modems they use to transmit vote totals on election night. Add to this the fact that states don’t conduct robust postelection audits — a manual comparison of paper ballots to digital tallies is the best method we have to detect when something has gone wrong in an election — and there’s a good chance we simply won’t know if someone has altered the digital votes in the next election.
How did our election system get so vulnerable, and why haven’t officials tried harder to fix it? The answer, ultimately, comes down to politics and money: The voting machines are made by well-connected private companies that wield immense control over their proprietary software, often fighting vigorously in court to prevent anyone from examining it when things go awry. In Ohio in 2004, for example, where John Kerry lost the presidential race following numerous election irregularities, Kerry’s team was denied access to the voting-machine software. “We were told by the court that you were not able to get that algorithm to check it, because it was proprietary information,” Kerry recalled in a recent interview on WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show.” He was understandably rueful, arguing how wrong it was that elections are held under “the purview of privately owned machines, where the public doesn’t have the right to know whether the algorithm has been checked or whether they’re hackable or not. And we now know they are hackable.”
There are roughly 350,000 voting machines in use in the country today, all of which fall into one of two categories: optical-scan machines or direct-recording electronic machines. Each of them suffers from significant security problems.
The paper ballot, in theory, provides an audit trail that can be used to verify digital tallies. But not all states perform audits, and many that do simply run the paper ballots through a scanner a second time. Fewer than half the states do manual audits, and they typically examine ballots from randomly chosen precincts in a county, instead of a percentage of ballots from all precincts. If the randomly chosen precincts aren’t ones where hacking occurred or where machines failed to accurately record votes, an audit won’t reveal anything — nor will it always catch problems with early-voting, overseas or absentee ballots, all of which are often scanned in county election offices, not in precincts.
The voting-machine industry — an estimated $300-million-a-year business — has long been as troubling as the machines it makes, known for its secrecy, close political ties (overwhelmingly to the Republican Party) and a revolving door between vendors and election offices. More than a dozen companies currently sell voting equipment, but a majority of machines used today come from just four — Diebold Election Systems, Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems. Diebold (later renamed Premier) and Sequoia are now out of business. Diebold’s machines and customer contracts were sold to ES&S and a Canadian company called Dominion, and Dominion also acquired Sequoia. This means that more than 80 percent of the machines in use today are under the purview of three companies — Dominion, ES&S and Hart InterCivic.
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Many of the products they make have documented vulnerabilities and can be subverted in multiple ways. Hackers can access voting machines via the cellular modems used to transmit unofficial results at the end of an election, or subvert back-end election-management systems — used to program the voting machines and tally votes — and spread malicious code to voting machines through them. Attackers could design their code to bypass pre-election testing and kick in only at the end of an election or under specific conditions — say, when a certain candidate appears to be losing — and erase itself afterward to avoid detection. And they could make it produce election results with wide margins to avoid triggering automatic manual recounts in states that require them when results are close.
Hackers could also target voting-machine vendors and use this trusted channel to distribute their code. Last year a security researcher stumbled across an unsecured ES&S server that left passwords exposed for its employee accounts. Although the passwords were encrypted, a nation-state with sufficient resources would most likely be able to crack them, the researcher noted. Since ES&S creates ballot-definition files before each election for some customers — the critical programming files that tell machines how to apportion votes based on a voter’s screen touch or marks on a paper ballot — a malicious actor able to get into ES&S’s network could conceivably corrupt these files so machines misinterpret a vote for Donald Trump, say, as one for his opponent, or vice versa.
The Department of Homeland Security, the intelligence community and election officials have all insisted that there is no evidence that Russian hackers altered votes in 2016. But the truth is that no one has really looked for evidence. Intelligence assessments are based on signals intelligence — spying on Russian communications and computers for chatter or activity indicating that they altered votes — not on a forensic examination of voting machines and election networks. “We should always be careful to point out that there hasn’t been any evidence that votes were changed in any election in this way, and that’s a true fact,” said Matt Blaze, a computer-science professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a voting-machine-security expert. “It’s just less comforting than it might sound at first glance, because we haven’t looked very hard.” Even if experts were to look, it’s not clear what they would find, he added. “It’s possible to do a pretty good job of erasing all the forensic evidence.”
Despite this proliferation of voting-machine problems, the industry was expanding its reach and control, even as it was concentrating power into fewer hands. By 2010, ES&S was so big — it had bought Diebold’s election division and controlled more than 70 percent of the market — that the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit and required it to sell off some of its assets. Many election officials, baffled by the new technology and unable to hire dedicated I.T. staff, purchased complete suites of election services from vendors, services that in some cases included programming ballot-definition files for voting machines and assisting with tabulation. It became common to see voting-machine employees or their local contractors in election offices before, during and after elections, and in some cases even working in election offices full time. ES&S, for instance, even installed remote-access software and modems on election-management systems to gain remote access to them from its Nebraska headquarters to troubleshoot when things went wrong. And when things did go wrong with machines, it was often the vendor who investigated and supplied the explanation that was fed to the news media and the public.
Hackers could also target voting-machine vendors and use this trusted channel to distribute their code. Last year a security researcher stumbled across an unsecured ES&S server that left passwords exposed for its employee accounts. Although the passwords were encrypted, a nation-state with sufficient resources would most likely be able to crack them, the researcher noted. Since ES&S creates ballot-definition files before each election for some customers — the critical programming files that tell machines how to apportion votes based on a voter’s screen touch or marks on a paper ballot — a malicious actor able to get into ES&S’s network could conceivably corrupt these files so machines misinterpret a vote for Donald Trump, say, as one for his opponent, or vice versa.
The Department of Homeland Security, the intelligence community and election officials have all insisted that there is no evidence that Russian hackers altered votes in 2016. But the truth is that no one has really looked for evidence. Intelligence assessments are based on signals intelligence — spying on Russian communications and computers for chatter or activity indicating that they altered votes — not on a forensic examination of voting machines and election networks. “We should always be careful to point out that there hasn’t been any evidence that votes were changed in any election in this way, and that’s a true fact,” said Matt Blaze, a computer-science professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a voting-machine-security expert. “It’s just less comforting than it might sound at first glance, because we haven’t looked very hard.” Even if experts were to look, it’s not clear what they would find, he added. “It’s possible to do a pretty good job of erasing all the forensic evidence.”
Despite this proliferation of voting-machine problems, the industry was expanding its reach and control, even as it was concentrating power into fewer hands. By 2010, ES&S was so big — it had bought Diebold’s election division and controlled more than 70 percent of the market — that the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit and required it to sell off some of its assets. Many election officials, baffled by the new technology and unable to hire dedicated I.T. staff, purchased complete suites of election services from vendors, services that in some cases included programming ballot-definition files for voting machines and assisting with tabulation. It became common to see voting-machine employees or their local contractors in election offices before, during and after elections, and in some cases even working in election offices full time. ES&S, for instance, even installed remote-access software and modems on election-management systems to gain remote access to them from its Nebraska headquarters to troubleshoot when things went wrong. And when things did go wrong with machines, it was often the vendor who investigated and supplied the explanation that was fed to the news media and the public.
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Even now, when the country is desperate to prevent Russian hackers from interfering with future elections, the company is more focused on asserting proprietary control over its systems than on working with communities of researchers who want to secure them. In addition to the comments it sent the Copyright Office, it also sent a vaguely threatening letter to its own customers, warning them against helping researchers by providing them with voting-machine software to examine. In that letter, ES&S reminded election officials of an essential fact: The American people don’t own the software that now sits at the heart of their democracy; they just lease it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html
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NY Times
The Crisis of Election Security (Published 2018)
As the midterms approach, America’s electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn’t anyone trying to fix them?
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New footage from Jan 6th at the Capitol.
That looks organized and it sure doesn't look like Donald Trump supporters.
Why isn't the FBI releasing the footage❓
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That looks organized and it sure doesn't look like Donald Trump supporters.
Why isn't the FBI releasing the footage❓
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As we grow closer to the Fulton County audit, it is good to be reminded about the case that reached Judge Totenberg's court last fall, and her rulings in the case based on cybersecurity experts.
The SOS office contradicted her rulings in statements after the election.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/georgia-years-long-court-battle-reveals-dominions-security-and-audit-flaws-weak-testing_3611494.html
The SOS office contradicted her rulings in statements after the election.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/georgia-years-long-court-battle-reveals-dominions-security-and-audit-flaws-weak-testing_3611494.html
The Epoch Times
Years-Long Court Battle in Georgia Reveals Dominion’s Security Flaws, Weak Testing
News Analysis Behind the current controversy surrounding the integrity of results from the Nov. 3 presidential election in ...