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Efilroft Sul

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16. I will be contacting the county board of elections and SOS next week.

Reply to diva77 (Reply #15)

Thu Jun 6, 2019, 09:12 AM

Jun 2019

I'd be writing them today, but it's a travel day and I'll be gone through Sunday.

Another takeaway I had from yesterday's demonstrations, besides voter verification, is that these machines have too many moving parts at the vote tallying stage (scanner) and that their cases/covers don't seem to provide adequate protection for machines while they are in transit from downtown Pittsburgh to wherever they're being deployed. I can envision a lot of breakdowns and subsequent freak-outs by poll workers, election rovers, tech support, and voters.

Hand-counted paper ballots: Everything old should be new again.

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New Voting Machines On Display For Voter Comments In Allegheny County (PGH PA) [View all] yortsed snacilbuper Jun 2019 OP

I just hope the servers they connect to are secure... Dennis Donovan Jun 2019 #1

They're unsinkable!! Blues Heron Jun 2019 #2

I installed a new voting machine at City Hall and the rejected it Brother Buzz Jun 2019 #3

It's not so much the VOTING.. SoCalDem Jun 2019 #4

Do they count the paper ballots produced? unc70 Jun 2019 #5

People don't trust self driving cars, but they trust these voting machines. hunter Jun 2019 #6

give it to half a dozen 17 year old hackers and if they can't change the code, i'll be impressed lol Takket Jun 2019 #7

American hackers don't give a shit not_the_one Jun 2019 #12

I supervise elections in my hometown. I'm going to go examine them tomorrow at CCAC South. Efilroft Sul Jun 2019 #8

Yes, thank you. Please let us know. blue neen Jun 2019 #10

These are VERY BAD if they are BMDs -- Ballot Marking Devices; they are 100% UNVERIFIABLE & HACKABLE diva77 Jun 2019 #13

Just got back from evaluating the vendors' offerings for Allegheny County (Pittsburgh). Efilroft Sul Jun 2019 #14

Thanks for the report -- and as expected. Vendors smothering elections officials with their diva77 Jun 2019 #15

I will be contacting the county board of elections and SOS next week. Efilroft Sul Jun 2019 #16

Excellent point about the breach in chain-of-custody of the machines when they leave the warehouse. diva77 Jun 2019 #18

The vulnerability is in the software updates FakeNoose Jun 2019 #9

Wouldn't it be possible for the machine to spit out what the voter fierywoman Jun 2019 #11

If there isn't connectivity RoadMan Jun 2019 #17