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Scytl is a Barcelona-based company that provides electronic voting systems worldwide, many of which have proven vulnerable to electronic manipulation. Scytl has (or had) Soros and Democrat party connections. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital has invested $40 million in Scytl.
What Roscoe B. Davis brings to the table is a claim from two cyber–forensic investigators. They told him that all the stuff we're talking about — the secretive poll-counting, the cemetery voters, the ballot dumps — is a distraction. The real issue is that the important changes are happening at the level of computer tabulation. The forensics investigators believe that these changes occur offshore, mostly at Scytl's headquarters in Barcelona, and maybe in Frankfurt, Germany.
As far as I can tell, what's important is that, across America, machines maintained by giant multinational corporations handle our elections and have already provably manipulated elections in Texas and Kentucky. These are the kind of systems that can be manipulated with Hammer and its Scoreguard program or gamed (as they seem to have been in Texas) by employees overriding the people's will.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: DontTreadOnMe
Stop relying in machine and tech. People in general can't be trusted.
Hand count. Need volunteers? Use the jury duty selection system.
originally posted by: SleeperHasAwakened
What I would love to see: a US-government backed "moonshot" program to build the most reliable, secure and Democratic vote tabulation system in the world.
* built by top-flight engineers IN HOUSE, with close scrutiny and auditing. Want to be be a core project member, sorry, we don't hire folks that financially contribute are are registered members of either the Republican or Democrat party.
* OPEN SOURCE. US government is building it but this is a TRANSPARENT OPEN platform. All are welcome to inspect, review , comment & contribute, Core team has final say on merger of code.
* As above, NOT FOR SALE. Any and all parties welcome to use it for free.
* Inexpensive to operate, test and deploy
* Secure, fail safe, resistant to tampering/hacking
* In event of catastrophic system failure (which would be designed to be below several decimal places under .1%), there is a break glass/contingency to fall back to traditional vote counting methodologies
This can be done and done effectively, but would require significant resources and social and political will TO WANT it to SUCCEED and to WANT secure, trusted elections, NOT just for one side or another.
originally posted by: SleeperHasAwakened
Google "security by obscurity" to understand why what you propose, corporatising OSS, is an abjectly terrible idea.