“Last year, Professor Halderman warned the House Appropriations Committee that“[a] small number of election technology vendors and support contractors program and operate election management systems used by many local governments.” 8/
“The largest of these services over 2,000 jurisdictions spread across thirty-four states.” 9/
“Thus, as explained by Halderman, bad actors “could target one or a few of these [private] companies and spread an attack to election equipment that serves millions of voters.” 10/
“In a piece for Scientific American, Halderman again warned that a single election-system vendor does pre-election programming for 2,000 jurisdictions in thirty-four states from an office building in the Midwest.” 11/
“If attackers can hack into that central facility and remotely infiltrate the company’s computers, they can spread malicious code to voting machines and change election results across much of the country.” 12/
13/ Some screenshots from my piece.
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“[O]ne of the Democratic [USPS] board members is Ron Bloom, a Trump appointee who's expressed support for DeJoy. As recently as April, Bloom, who…chairs the USPS board, told The Atlantic…’Right now, I think [DeJoy is] the … man for the job.’” 6/1/21 1/ msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-…
Only the USPS board can fire DeJoy, and supposed Democrat Ron Bloom’s support of DeJoy means there are not enough votes for the board to oust him. Ron’s got a very smug mug don’t ya think? 2/
I’m upset w/ both moderate & progressive Democrats. Neither is trying to shine a light on Trump’s suspicious ascent to power in 2016. Neither is seeking declassification of info re the 2016 election. 1/
“Pro-marijuana candidate Adam Weeks reportedly said GOP recruited him to ‘pull votes away’ from Democrats [in Minnesota race]” - CBS News -10/29/29 h/t @hopes_matt 1/ cbsnews.com/news/adam-week…
2/ “Democrats have accused GOP operatives of recruiting third-party candidates such as Weeks to siphon off votes that would otherwise go to Democratic candidates in a number of races across Minnesota and the rest of the country.”
“Brian Evans, a spokesman for Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, told the AP that Republicans have recruited or are suspected of recruiting several candidates to run as Legal Marijuana Now or other third-party candidates across Minnesota.” 3/
“Johnson and Clapper also lied to the American public when they claimed in October 2016 that the ‘decentralized nature’ of our election system would make it ‘extremely difficult’ for hackers to alter an election outcome.” 1/
“Johnson would later acknowledge that this assurance was false, which he had to have known all along because the point is obvious. ‘It’s a bit awkward bc we say there are thousands of jurisdictions, it would be hard to alter, which in reality is not really true, … 2/
… bc all you’d have to do is go to key precincts in key states,’ he said.” (Rigged, p. 193.) 3/
“A new court brief is sounding an alarm from cybersecurity experts about Georgia’s voting system. It suggests that cities…use hand-marked paper ballots in elections this fall instead of the [touchscreen] voting machines purchased by the state in 2019.” 1/ 11alive.com/article/news/p…
“This critique is separate and distinct from the unsubstantiated complaints that claimed election fraud in November. The concerns posed by cybersecurity experts say Georgia is asking for trouble by continuing to use the state’s [touchscreen] voting machines.” 2/
"’I’m one of the cybersecurity professionals that think the more computers we have in the (election) system, the more vulnerable it is,’ said Dr. Rich DeMillo, the founder of Georgia Tech’s new College of Cybersecurity.” 3/
"For months, the CDC had advised us that breakthrough cases among the vaccinated were rare events, that even if sickened by delta, we shld be only mildly symptomatic—'mild,' of course, losing its meaning when u can’t taste ur food for more than a week." 1/ slate.com/human-interest…
2/ "If I’d known the truth of how awful a breakthrough infection could be, I might have thought twice about hitting the cape in the first place."