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The Michigan investigation was launched at the request of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who in February disclosed that an unauthorized party had "allegedly gained inappropriate access to tabulation machines and data drives used in Richfield Township and Roscommon County" without providing details.
The seizure adds to the tally of potential voting equipment breaches. Last week, Reuters reported on eight known attempts to gain unauthorized access to voting systems in five U.S. states since the 2020 election, all involving local Republican officeholders or party activists who have promoted former President Donald Trump's false claims about voter fraud or conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines.
A local computer technician says he had no prior connection to Tera Jackson when she asked him — without authorization — to meet with a Cross Village Township official last year and retrieve data from a voting tabulator.
Jackson, 56 from Petoskey, is now facing charges of common law fraud and two counts of aiding and abetting the unauthorized access of a computer for her involvement in the incident, which took place in mid-January last year. When Coveyou arrived at the Cross Village Township hall with township officials, it looked like someone had already tried to break in, he said.
The affidavit said Jackson believed there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, and that she had been tasked with the assignment of retrieving the information stored on Cross Village Township’s machine. The sheriff’s department investigation determined that not to be the case, according to the affidavit.
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: putnam6
dey took yer election!
this was the most secure election in the history of mankind, this is silly.
Despite Hutton’s claims, the Poll Pads are the only piece of election infrastructure that is ever hooked up to the internet or connected to devices that are hooked up to the internet. The poll pads have that capability so election workers can download updated voter lists to the poll pads that are used to check people in on Election Day. However, the Wifi capability is disabled before the poll pads are put into use at the polling place.
Additionally, the touch screen interfaces and attached printers are never attached to the poll pads and are air-gapped so they cannot be connected to the internet. Finally, the scanners, which scan and tabulate the printed paper ballots that voters can review before casting, are not connected to any of the other equipment at any point either.
In a statement, poll pad creator KnowInk said: “The assertions made about unauthorized access to our systems are patently false. The man claiming that someone ‘got into’ our systems did not happen according to our forensic analysis. There was no ‘hack,’ there was no ‘back door’ entry, there was no ‘pump and dump,’ and there was no access through a ‘thermostat’ located hundreds of miles away in Savannah.”
originally posted by: putnam6
Am I reading this article correctly so far all attempts have been local Republican officeholders? Is this a coordinated attack? Are they probing for weaknesses, to show it could be done? Or were they actually attempting to hack the system for their gain?
All sounds like a waste of time but I supposed it may have some effect locally
The Michigan investigation was launched at the request of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who in February disclosed that an unauthorized party had "allegedly gained inappropriate access to tabulation machines and data drives used in Richfield Township and Roscommon County" without providing details.
The seizure adds to the tally of potential voting equipment breaches. Last week, Reuters reported on eight known attempts to gain unauthorized access to voting systems in five U.S. states since the 2020 election, all involving local Republican officeholders or party activists who have promoted former President Donald Trump's false claims about voter fraud or conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines.
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: putnam6
dey took yer election!
this was the most secure election in the history of mankind, this is silly.