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Saill @saill
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I've been taking a deeper look at some of the companies that handle voter registration data and systems.

I'll start with VR Systems in Tallahassee FL. That name may be familiar because that company was the object of an attack by Russian hackers in August 2016.

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This fact came to light in June of 2017, via a document leaked to the press by NSA employee Reality Leigh Winner. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3766…

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According to news reports, "the attack was successful only in the sense that they gained access to the database, but they didn't manipulate any of the [voter] information in the database". abcnews.go.com/US/hackers-ven…

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QUESTION: These databases are continuously updated by county election officials. How do we know for sure that this malicious third party did not perform their own "updates"?

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This question is particularly relevant in light of what happened in Durham County NC on November 8, 2016. Long story short - there was chaos at the polls.

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Six large, heavily Democratic precincts experienced major problems with their electronic poll books. Voter after voter showed up to vote on election day, only to find that the system was erroneously reporting that they had already voted. newsobserver.com/news/local/cou…

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A few hours after the polls opened the county decided to switch to paper poll books. Voting was halted for nearly two hours at one of the precincts. A number of voters left without voting.

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Which company provided those electronic poll books? VR Systems. vrsystems.com

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I was curious about the details of that system failure, so I hunted down a forensic report decscribing the system, and the failure, in great detail. dconc.gov/home/showdocum…

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The details of this report are truly disturbing. The summary of the report claims "the EviD application did not fail during the election". This conclusion is very odd, considering the details of the report.

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My article on these details is here. medium.com/@saillwhite/th…

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