No wonder democracy died
Fri 12:15 am +00:00, 14 Jun 2024 1Repost: Expert shows how to flip an election in Georgia courtroom
Who can get him before a Congressional committee with the networks recording him doing it?
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By Mark Niesse
Jan 22, 2024
Huddled around a voting machine in a federal courtroom, a small crowd watched as expert witness Alex Halderman demonstrated how someone could meddle with a Georgia election within seconds.
Halderman, a University of Michigan computer scientist, changed results of a hypothetical referendum on Sunday alcohol sales. He flipped the winner in a theoretical election between President George Washington and Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War general who defected to the British. He rigged the machine to print out as many ballots as he wanted.
All he needed was a pen to reach a button inside the touchscreen, a fake $10 voter card he had programmed, or a $100 USB device that he plugged into a cord connected to a printer, rewriting the touchscreen’s code…
TAP – The Smartmatic vote rigging machines were trialled in the Philippines before deployment to the US. All they need is to add up. Why do they need a special machine? Obvious really.
Off topic but relevant, computers, or at least the compact computer systems available today couldn’t have existed without giant leaps in technology. This technology either didn’t exist or was hidden from us. The story goes, that a guy started at an electronics firm, and the firm was about to close for two weeks holiday. Not being entitled to these holidays, he stayed at work messing around. It was apparently during this time that he invented the silicone chip, which incidental wasn’t immediately accepted. Now to anyone not aware, electronics is a very exciting subject. We had a Maplins store near by, and armed with very limited knowledge, a soldering iron, and a few library books, along with freely available information online, I for example was able to produce circuits powered by two AA batteries, which were capable of switching on mains current up to 30 amps. By varying the sensor, you could switch it due to temperature, moisture levels, light intensity etc. I played for hours in my greenhouse using two car batteries charged via solar panels to open windows, start vent fans etc. Not I might add without mistakes. My good lady fearing for her safety dissuaded me from using mains power, and when Maplins closed, it drifted away, but it was spellbindingly fascinating.
Don’t know why I posted that, probably says more about me than anything else. Hey Ho.