Dominion voting machines hacked with a pen in front of a judge????

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  1. zalekbloom

    zalekbloom Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    From my knowledge of computer programming BIC pen was not enough to hack a voting machine. BIC pen was probably needed to break some covers. Voting machine is a computer created for specific purposes. To change the computer program you need at flash drive (were the new program is located) and a keyboard to issue the load commands. Even if the Dominion computers were created by 1/2 intelligent people, for sure there was some password protections (this is the standard).
    Most computers and web sites can be and were hacked, the same as banks, government institutions and even software producers, but does it means we should stop using banks or software? And the same with voting.
    BTW - Trump tried to convince VP Pence to overturn his 2020 election, does not matter if Dominion voting machines were hacked or not:
    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...attention-pence-thursdays-hearing-2022-06-16/
     
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    @zalekbloom

    ""From my knowledge of computer programming BIC pen was not enough to hack a voting machine.""

    From your knowledge of a Dominion Voting Tabulators would a BIC pen bet enough to hack the voting machine.
     
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    You claim no one supports it yet here you are backing a system that is proven to be hackable. In a state that there were already proven crooked election officials (fake electors) and you want to play this whole thing off just because it may fit a narrative? By all means allow it to happen who cares if people get disenfranchised by this. Glad it’s not in my state. The crazy is on a scale all of its own to defend these machines.
     
  4. truth and justice

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    Any computer can be hacked unless it's used uniquely everywhere with exactly the same interface. The counting machines have to be programmed to take into account number of candidates and format of ballot papers, hence differ between polling stations. Any paper ballot can be voided by sleight of hand.

    Ps what is the name and brand of the counting machine used in Texas?
     
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    If this is true, it means Trump lost by a wider margin than we thought.
     
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    what he did is prove he could put a pin in the reset button and reboot it into safe mode and load malware on to the machine with a smart card or flash drive

    someone could do the same to your phone if it has no internet access

    should they issue a bios patch to require a login, yes, but even that is only good if no one knows the passcode

    this is why as I suggested for over a decade, digital counting should not replace manual counting, both should be done and the results compared - if they do not match, we need to know why, simple really
     
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    There can be fraud galore without any possibility of courtroom proof. Just like there can be no fraud at all but still have a judge find someone guilty of fraud like in NY. Common sense and rational analysis are most often determiners of situations and it ain't rocket science nor courtroom proof. There is a rational reason, not random chance, why no other western democracy has any wide spread virtually unqualified mail in balloting.
     
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    Despite concocting no credible evidence, losers can indulge their self-serving fantasies of "fraud galore" with no proof whatever.

    Appeals are a valid option for convicted individuals, but fantasizing they are innocent and blowing gas about it does not make it so.

    Millions of American voters, Trump included, demonstrate their confidence in mail-in ballots and the scrutiny to which they are subjected when they vote by mail.

    Trump's attempts to reject the votes of Americans who did not vote for him failed, fortunately.
     
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    Each county selects their balloting machine from a list of state approved options. I don't know any brand names. The voting process actually varies from county to county with some using the scanner/counters and preprinted paper ballots, some using Direct Record Electronic machines where the voting is done with an electronic interface (with options for the blind, elderly, and handicapped), and others using direct and exclusive paper ballots dropped into a ballot box and hand counted. In any case no voting machine has an outside telecommunications interface and therefore cannot be hacked. (Pl;ease try top come up on the basics of IT.)

    Texas also has a highly qualified absentee mail in voting arrangement where a person who meets the criteria can apply for absentee mail in ballots good, if approved, for a calendar year of elections.
     
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    It was a self-deleting malware that deleted itself after if changed votes on election day. The deleted itself when the calendar day changed.
    They tried to get it on as many machines as they could, but only needed to infect a small number.
    Which is why the number of votes Trump won by were so low.
     
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    I was not aware of that. Thanks for the insight. It seems that would make the machine providers a direct principal in the commission of a fraud, or was it an outsider's malware?
     
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    When I saw your post earlier I just knew that some gullible Trump supporters will believe it and run with it and lo and behold one did . This self-deleting malware will now be fact
     
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    They're trying to jail Trump for protesting a rigged election.

    When Hot and Horny Fani is getting ready for a sex romp with the Special Prosecutor she hired to persecute Trump.

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