Voting Machines

[patrie]

Turks segment

Former GOP Official TAKES OVER Dominion Voting Systems In Alarming Lawsuit Move

Dominion is a proprietary closed source voting machine/system.

States need to enact requirements for open source voting machines and retention of a paper audit trail/paper ballots -it’s a freaking no-brainer. Why haven’t they to date? Laziness.

Open source does not just allude to software; it’s the hardware of the machine too. A new standard that open source Linux and BSD operating systems will very soon support is the RISC-V chip. Why is that important? Intel, AMD, and ARM all have corporate backdoors. Even if there is no network connection at the time of voting, a time bomb could be loaded beforehand.

In the 90s the NSA lobbied Congress for such a backdoor (the “Clipper” chip…) They failed miserably. So what did the feds do insread? They wrangled the largest chip monopolies to add backdoors: Intel; then AMD; and then ARM.

And it is interesting to note that Intel management, the largest chip manufacturer for a number of years, is stacked with Israeli players. Coincidence?? I think not!! The same country that is psyched about using tools like Pegasus (link…)

Here’s more on the corporate backdooring of chips:

Spyware at The Hardware Level - Intel ME & AMD PSP

And more on the newly supported RISC-V chip:

RISC-V Explained: How Open-Source Chips Are Revolutionizing the Semiconductor Industry | ChipVerse

[jackc380]

Patrie , this is good information although I have very little knowledge about the technology involved. I do know the implications though. I don’t understand why this country’s voting machines are are not standardized . It should be a national priority, Regarding mail-in ballots, the fraud is minimal, less than 1 percent. I’ve voted this way for years as it is difficult for me to vote physically. Never had a problem doing so by absentee ballot. As to the chips , the Republicans have already squashed any progress there. They are truly fascists

[patrie]

@jackc380

I don’t understand why this country’s voting machines are are not standardized .

I used to think the EXACT same thing. But guess what? It was actually a brilliant move by the framers of the Constitution to make it very difficult to co-opt a federal vote. Trumpkins could more easily cook up some BS excuse to change those standards to work conVENiently in their favor (example: new standard; everyone has to use Repub-owned Dominion Systems…)

They are exasperated right now that they can’t do stuff like that in the runup to the midterms…