@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 1/ We really need to stop freaking ourselves out. Ivanka doesn't have patents on voting machines. Ivanka reportedly got trademarks, i.e. the right to sell "Ivanka!" branded voting machines in China. Stupid, worthless, useless, and meaningless here. Like Ivanka.
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 2/ A patent is the exclusive right to use or make a specific type of device, substance or process for 20 years. A trademark is just branding. No U.S. voting machines are made in China. A voting machine made of plutonium would be easier to sell here than one with her name on it.
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 3/ Florida uses 100% hand marked paper ballots. Because 2000 embarrassment and humiliation. There might be opportunities to monkey with machine counted totals, but they can be hand recounted and there would be no basis for stopping it under Bush v. Gore.
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 4/ This site is a solid guide to which states we should be freaked out about. The leading freakout candidate is Georgia. Georgia has changed its machines. It no longer uses the easily hackable and cheatable touch screen machines with no paper trail.
verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#mode…
verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#mode…
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 5/ Instead, they switched to electronic machines that print the name of the candidate and a bar code that is scanned. This is a vast improvement over the election Kemp stole. Then they used ancient touchscreens with no paper trail that electronically transmitted results to ...
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 6/ ... an unpatched, insecure server at Kennesaw State U. Kemp willfully, in violation of outstanding discovery requests and court orders, allowed (translation: "had") that server to be completely wiped and all the data from the machines disappeared.
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 7/ The machines Georgia will use in this election are a vast improvement. They actually print a ballot with the names and a barcode that the voter checks and inserts into a reader machine. The problem is that the machine reads the bar code, not the name ...
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 8/ ... and Republicans suspiciously refused to accept Democratic demands for further security measures. So there are opportunities to steal at the ballot printing, vote totaling and accumulation stage but they would leave a verifiable trail in a recount.
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 9/ Of course, the country will already have descended into civil war if the election hinges on the results of a recount of Georgia.
The second most likely to be stolen state is Texas. Texas will be close and 37% of precincts will be using electronic machines with no paper trail.
The second most likely to be stolen state is Texas. Texas will be close and 37% of precincts will be using electronic machines with no paper trail.
@kramer_susan @CheriJacobus @gymag6 10/ Texas, however, as a state long dominated by Republicans, may not have the experience and infrastructure for widespread thieving on a systemic basis. Stealing will more likely be a local, county by county process. Laborious both for Russia and locals, but not impossible.
