Good day all. One of the major discussions regarding the Tainted Election of 2020 was the security of the ballots, especially those cast electronically using Dominion voting machines. Many people have said that the machines could be hacked and the votes changed.
There have been major fights and court actions over this possibility with Dominion going after anyone who dares say that their machines aren’t secure. Georgia is one of the states that uses these machines and there is a court case underway involving them. One of the witnesses hacked the machine in the courtroom with a pen. Here are the details from Newsmax:
A voting systems expert testifying in a Georgia trial last week demonstrated that Dominion Voting Systems machines were so easily hackable he could use a Bic pen and smart card to copy, edit, and change votes in seconds, according to Law360 Pulse, which is covering the trial.
Professor John Wick J. Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan, the author of a highly publicized report detailing deficiencies in Dominion’s voting machines, testified at an Atlanta trial Thursday in a case filed in 2017 against the state of Georgia.
Georgia changed up the voting machine vendor to Dominion even though many people said that dominion’s systems weren’t secure. This led the plaintiffs, the Coalition for Good Governance, a liberal activist group, (Liberals? Now why would they want secure voting systems?), to ask a federal judge to order Georgia not to use the Dominion machines, claiming they are easily hackable.
Halderman, who wrote a 96-page report in July 2021, began his demonstration before U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg in Atlanta by asking a plaintiffs’ attorney to borrow a pen, Law360 Pulse reported.
The professor then inserted the pen into the Dominion voting machine and held it there for a few seconds, which caused the machine to reboot into “safe mode,” according to Halderman.
Halderman then explained that a person could copy or change files on the voting machine, change its operating settings, or install malware.
Halderman said accessing the “terminal emulator” could allow a user to bypass the computer’s normal security settings and obtain “super-user” access — something that allows a person to read, monitor, and change “anything,” including ballots, on the voting machine with “no limits,” Law360 Pulse reported.
“All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen,” Halderman said.
I am not a hacker or a programmer, but I can see one way to bring a computer into a voting booth to hack into the system once you get it into safe mode. We all carry them. They’re called “Smart Phones.” A real hacker or cracker could easily set up a phone to provide the tools he/she needs to rig the vote and no one would even think about it. Now bringing a laptop into a voting booth? Someone will notice that.
Halderman also inserted a “$10” smart card into the machine. He said such smart cards can be programmed to replicate cards used by poll workers, voters, and technicians to access the voting machines.
The poll worker and voter cards can be used county-wide to “print as many ballots as you would like,” Halderman said.
Professor Halderman also showed how to hack the system with a USB stick, although this was in a video down outside the courtroom. However, I think the point was made when he hacked the system with a ball point pen.
The trial, which began Jan. 9, was over a case filed in 2017 by several voters and the Coalition for Good Governance against members of the State Election Board and then Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
One of the problems with the 2020 election and the one coming up was Kemp and the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. They are not fans of the Greatest President of the 21st Century and have been refused to do anything that would help dispel people’s beliefs that the 2020 election was stolen and that the 2024 election may be stolen.
The plaintiffs say they are not disputing any election results in Georgia, and their case is unrelated to the 2020 election and the defamation lawsuits brought by Dominion, CBS News reported.
After the 2020 election, Dominion claimed it was defamed by several parties, including Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and several individuals.
In April of 2023, Fox News settled its litigation with Dominion, paying the voting firm $787 million. Dominion’s litigation against Newsmax is ongoing in Delaware court.
Fox is, to my knowledge, the only organization to settle and from what I recall reading at the time, they actually had a good case. Instead the Murdochs used this as a way to get rid of Tucker Carlson. I don’t know the status of the other suits. I think it’s safe to say that the testimony by Professor Halderman isn’t going to help Dominion’s case at all.
An interesting side not to all this is the plaintiffs, who are a liberal group, and the judge hearing this case who is an Obama judge. Normally, these people would be on the other side working to help Dominion. Securing the vote has not been a priority of the Democrats for a very long time, if ever. In this case, Totenberg ordered the State to replace their old system with a new one in 2019.
Current Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger entered a nearly $107 million contract with Dominion to install new ballot-counting devices that record votes in both the system’s software and with a printed QR barcode.
The suit also claimed the Dominion machines offer voters a paper QR code that cannot easily be read to verify the accuracy of their vote.
If you can get into the voting system, then you can also rewrite the code that generates the QR code, basically rendering it worthless. Raffensperger, who pretty much refused to even consider that there were problems in 2020 despite massive information that there was serious fraud, continues to back the machines.
Raffensperger continues to stand by the integrity of Dominion’s voting software and systems.
“The Halderman report was the result of a computer scientist having complete access to the Dominion equipment and software for three months in a laboratory environment,” he explained in a June 2023 letter to the state legislature.
“It identified risks that are theoretical and imaginary. Our security measures are real and mitigate all of them.”
I would hardly consider a courtroom to be a laboratory environment. Raffensperger and Dominion continue to deny that there are any issues and are claiming that Professor Halderman has been given all sorts of access by the court. However, there is that issue of the Bic pen.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, then-President Trump and his surrogates made numerous allegations of voter fraud and abuses, including claims that Dominion’s voting systems had been manipulated to give Joe Biden a victory in key states including Georgia.
Ultimately, neither Trump nor his campaign provided evidence to back up claims the machines had been hacked and the state of Georgia, as well as all other challenged states, deemed the results as legal and final.
That is not entirely accurate. What happened was the courts flat out refused to even allow any evidence to be presented. Since then we have been seeing more and more information being developed that blows holes in the Deep State’s narrative that the 2020 election was an honest one. Professor Halderman’s demonstration is another data point showing that the 2020 election was tainted. What happens next remains to be seen. Perhaps the judge will order the machines to be trashed and that the state must use printed ballots and hand counts.
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As far as Fox kneeling I am reminded of a quote attributed to John Adams “Millions for defense but not one penny in tribute”
I, and I’m sure many others, would respect Fox more if they fought and lost rather than showing their yellow streak.