Largest Voting Machine Vendor in US Admits Its Systems Had Remote-Access Software Installed

If people are ever going to have trust in our system of selecting representatives this crap needs to stop ! I posted a few years ago about the machines in Houston that were accused of flipping votes and were stored in a warehouse for the feds to investigate.. Of course the warehouse burned to the ground before the feds ever got there.

A bombshell revelation on the security of voting in the United States surfaced in the form of a letter from the country’s largest voting machine manufacturer. The company, Election Systems and Software (ES&S) admitted that despite denying previous allegations of its voting systems coming installed with remote-access software, their systems did, indeed, allow for remote connections.

In a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), written in April, but only released this week, the company acknowledged that it had installed software that made the systems remotely accessible from anywhere.

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In my opinion, we should all go back to paper ballots that remain physically intact for hand recounts if necessary. Pencil marked or punched doesn't matter but they are tremendously more reliable than touch here to cast vote.

Every voter must have a valid id before voting and make every vote correctly count as the voter intended.

We knew that 8 years ago....the most used machine requires the tally to be converted from tenths of a digit to what ever the input wishes.....for each candidate...custom count for each one.......

There is no reason the machine needs to keep the log in tenths......yeah, that.....

This video was posted in 2006 on youtube. This accusation sounds like a hit piece. For one, any software of this sort being requested or developed would be protected by mountains of non-dislosure contracts. It is quite clear this is another "he raped me 20 yrs ago but I cant prove it and my friends dont remember either". Politicians without a doubt are dirty and the system is definately compromised with some places reporting over 100 percent of the possible vote.

Also if the accusation held merit the mainstream and democrat party would have made this very public with years of investigations.

a reply to: 727Sky

It's not surprising that those machines have some kind of remote access system in them, otherwise they would need a technician for every location with machines to solve any problem that appears.

If the system is well designed the remote access system cannot change the votes or, if it has to do it for tests then those test votes should be marked as that.

From a technical point of view it's not hard to do, it remains to be seen if they do it or not.

a reply to: tinktinktink

Also if the accusation held merit the mainstream and democrat party would have made this very public with years of investigations.

Not if they are using that as a tool to control who wins.

a reply to: beyondknowledge

Very true. The opposition to common scence voter laws demonstates an opposing view of having measurable standards to acctual voters in each district.

originally posted by: beyondknowledge
In my opinion, we should all go back to paper ballots that remain physically intact for hand recounts if necessary. Pencil marked or punched doesn't matter but they are tremendously more reliable than touch here to cast vote.

Every voter must have a valid id before voting and make every vote correctly count as the voter intended.

That's how our voting area has been since I can remember and I've voted in almost every election here since 1986-7. We did have the booths and lever machines the first few years now that I think about it, but it wasn't long after that that they went to scan sheets. A large bubble sheet with a number on the top corresponding to the number tear-off that gets attached to our voting slip after we show our photo ID. The scanner doesn't know who voted on that sheet but it can be verified if ever needed.

NO Mail in ever but for absentee ballots you ask for in advance or too bad.

Here is why:

If we went to mail in ballots the people could have someone go door to door and physically threaten people during the voting process to sign their vote in front of the terrorist.

If we have to show up, there is no way someone can hold a gun to your head to vote for their candidate nor even know who you voted to elect.

There is so much voter fraud in this country that we should go back to paper ballots and make people who count the votes put their id number on the ballots they count and form laws to make them criminally liable for messing up.

Also, all people voting need to have proper ID and be citizens of this country, non-citizens should not be allowed to vote. Resident aliens could vote on stuff like school stuff and local parks and junk like that, but not for any potlitical office.

I've said it before, and I'll keep screaming it into the void:
These digital voting systems ARE the way of the future, but WE ARE USING THEM WRONG.

There is zero excuse for them not to print out a simple receipt, with some sort of QR code or string of charachters, where we can quickly and easily log into a website and confirm that our votes haven't been changed.

This is 1970's tech, there's no excuse for how bad our system is right now.

Paper ballots are nice and all, but every election we hear # like "oh, we just FOUND ANOTHER BOX OF VOTES!"
Mail in ballots are insane, IMO. Want real voter turnout? Make it happen from the internet.
Yes, internet voting would create some new issues, specifically security related ones... but those are easy to solve compared to the other issues we face right now.

2020 could be the biggest rigged election in History ❌

a reply to: beyondknowledge

I love this idea . accountability , what a novel concept . Yes an Id to vote so we actually know if you’re a citizen and if you are allowed to vote . Like a citizenship id . That’s what we need . Great idea

originally posted by: tinktinktink
This video was posted in 2006 on youtube. This accusation sounds like a hit piece. For one, any software of this sort being requested or developed would be protected by mountains of non-dislosure contracts. It is quite clear this is another "he raped me 20 yrs ago but I cant prove it and my friends dont remember either". Politicians without a doubt are dirty and the system is definately compromised with some places reporting over 100 percent of the possible vote.

Also if the accusation held merit the mainstream and democrat party would have made this very public with years of investigations.

Not if Ohio was blue back then which is highly likely....

a reply to: beyondknowledge

Your opinion and Tulsi Gabbard's as well. In 2018 she authored a bill to do just that. It languished in the House and was sent to committee where it seems to have disappeared.

www.congress.gov...

gabbard.house.gov...

a reply to: 727Sky

Hopefully these "Smartmatic" voting machines will not be popular in 2020, like they were in 2016.

www.smartmatic.com...

A person serving on George Soros' board owns the machines.

Lot's of corruption potential.

The Smartmatic company Enabled Maduro to win in Venezuela, to the dismay of the voting public. As a result, the company was forced to cease operations in that country.

Source: www.businesswire.com...

a reply to: ArMaP

It’s all moot if it has a ‘paper trail’ and these systems do. A report we produced for Maryland’s SBE: Economics of Machine Change and Paper Trail

DREs are a joke and the amount of fraud is beyond count.

As long as there’s a paper trial, all is good.

Enjoy the read

originally posted by: Cravens
A report we produced for Maryland’s SBE: Economics of Machine Change and Paper Trail

Who is "we"?

DREs are a joke and the amount of fraud is beyond count.

What are DREs?

Enjoy the read

Probably not, but thanks anyway.

a reply to: beyondknowledge

I like it and it is fair .