Never forget that Paul Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Oleg Deripaska's associate Konstantin Kilimnik. ("Stop the steal" was a psyop.) 1/
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" [W]hen it was clear from polling data which states would have close electoral margins, ... attackers might spread malware...to shift a few percent of the vote to favor their desired candidate." - Prof. Alex J. Halderman, 2016
2/ medium.com/@jhalderm/want…
2/ medium.com/@jhalderm/want…
3/ "ABC News said it has reprimanded its top producer for investigative reporting for giving Donald Trump’s presidential campaign proprietary exit polling data on election night 2016." 12/6/17 politico.com/story/2017/12/…
5/ By August 2016, the “US. Intelligence community had reported [behind closed doors] that Russian hackers could edit actual vote tallies,” according to David Shimer’s book Rigged, which cites four unnamed senior members of the Obama administration. 
The only public official who publicly alluded to this possibility was Harry Reid.On 8/30/16, he wrote that the threat of Russian interference “is more extensive than is widely known & may include the intent to falsify official election results.” 6/ nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/…
On 9/28/16, despite knowing what he knew, Comey nonetheless testified that voting machines couldn't be hacked because they supposedly didn't connect to the internet. 7/ csoonline.com/article/312639…
8/ Comey was wrong. On 10/24/16, election-security expert @jhalderm told C-span that all voting machines receive programming b4 each election via memory cards from centralized (county or state) election-management system computers. c-span.org/video/?415879-…
9/ As explained by Halderman, if those centralized (county or state) programming computers are compromised,they could spread malware via the memory cards to every voting machine in the county or state.
10/ This is true even if the individual voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet.
11/ Moreover, in another video, @jhalderm explained that the centralized election-management systems sometimes connect to the internet themselves or receive programming or updates from other internet-connected systems.
https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1205321442876891136?s=20
12/ In 2019, another election-security expert, @rad_atl referenced an exchange about the 2016 election where a local election official said he or she had done their ballot programming on a laptop (the election management system computer) while at Starbucks.
13/ He came away from this meeting with the impression that voting machines in 2016 were "likely compromised in rural states where small swings were decisive." Again, this was referring to the 2016 election. ("Compromised" doesn't necessarily = breached.)
14/ I can't find the tweet right now, but at the time he said that he thought the information would come out eventually. It never has.
15/ I thought this excerpt from Halderman's October 2016 video was interesting. I have no idea if he knew what was going on behind closed doors (and how Comey was misleading the public), but wow. I'd never heard about the 1994 election hack in South Africa before either.
16/ Link for post 15. c-span.org/video/?415879-…
17/ Anyway, we never got a meaningful recount in 2016 and we had a whole lot more reason to want one than Trump and his hucksters in 2020. 😡
18/ After 2016, most large WI counties refused to conduct a manual recount. The court blocked the one in PA. MI's recount excluded votes from precincts w/ broken voting machine security seals & precincts where the # of voters and votes didn’t match. nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/…
19/ Oh. And then of course it turned out that ES&S had been selling voting machines w/ remote access software in the election-management computers and, starting in 2015, w/ wireless modems in the ballot scanners. I will never get over how I was misled by my own government.
20/ "Top Voting Machine Vendor [ES&S] Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States" - 7/17/18 by @kimzetter vice.com/en/article/mb4…
21/ "It turns out that [some ES&S] machines which electronically record and tabulate votes are in fact equipped with modems — permitting communication with the outside world." - 12/14/16 whowhatwhy.org/2016/12/14/vot…
22/ I'm not claiming vote tallies were changed in 2016. I'm claiming that we deserved to know one way or the other. We never got that information. And that was not okay and will never be okay. The damage done by the Trump administration is immeasurable.
23/ WTAF?! "Two and a half years later, DHS still hasn’t performed audits to see if votes were hacked in 2016" 5/16/19 fastcompany.com/90341582/two-a…
24/ And to anyone who repeats the mantra that the DHS said they "saw no evidence" that vote tallies were changed, I give you this.
25/ After the election, Reid speculated that vote tallies were changed to help Trump.
According to Shimer's book Rigged, "Obama's leading advisors dismissed Reid's theory, with a catch: They could not rule it out. 'We saw no evidence of interference in voter tallying, not to say that there wasn't, we just didn't see any evidence,' James Clapper said." p.201
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27/ And by the way, why did we have to hear from Bob Woodward that Russians actually planted malware in two Florida county voter registration systems?! It's been four years. The public deserves to know this. We were attacked.
https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/1307014796987035648?s=20
28/ Would anyone have ever told us that Manafort gave polling data to Konstantin Kilmnik (Oleg Deripaska's associate)? I doubt it. We only found out because his attorneys screwed up their redactions in a court filing. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
29/ Why is David Shimer the only person to whom these four unnamed senior Obama officials disclosed that Russia could have "edited actual vote tallies" after all? I'm glad they told someone. I'm glad they told him. But what took so long and why was there never a public stmt?!
30/ Correction. Re: Post 8, Halderman spoke to C-Span on 10/4/16, not 10/24. So it was right after Comey’s misleading testimony.
31/ Screenshot for post 4.
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