Vital and long overdue. This firm’s nonsense analysis has been critical to persuading both tech-illiterate elites & ordinary voters that there’s some credible evidence of electronic vote fraud. It’s a bad joke, but the technobabble sounds impressive. washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Some of this stuff requires no real technical background to see through. Ramsland, for instance, has been obsessed with the Spanish firm Scytl, which provides public-facing web applications for reporting vote tallies. They make the state election website look pretty, basically.
Scytl does not, needless to say, count votes. That’s done domestically, by local governments. Yet Ramsland has insistently peddled incoherent claims about Scytl somehow being involved in vote fraud (via nonexistent German servers, no less).
It is frankly difficult to understand how Ramsland could believe his own claims if he is himself technically competent. Either he knows it’s BS, but finds it lucrative to give a patina of infosec credibility to what Republicans want to hear, OR....
...and this seems depressingly plausible: Ramsland himself doesn’t understand the tech, but has realized it’s easy to blag your way into being regarded as a cybersecurity expert if you learn a little bit of jargon to sling around.
Possibly he has some actually-technically-competent people working for him, passing on findings he doesn’t really understand, which he then clumsily shoehorns into his prefab narrative. If so, I have no idea how those folks sleep at night.
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