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@DocPeteChambers @DonHuffines It is EXTREMELY important that you *know* (inside and out) that it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to secure ANY election conducted using computerized systems, software or cloud-hosted "election management" systems of ANY KIND.
Please follow me on the logic here. You don't have to be a tech-savvy engineer to understand this:
Anyone who tells you an election conducted using electronic voting systems can be in ANY way "safe," "certified," "inspected," "supervised," "Secure," "audited," "tracked," etc. is LYING to you.
In this picture is a single, multi-function processor chip. In EVERY voting system component, one can expect to find dozens, possibly hundreds of silicon chips and other components.
Here's the important part: There isn't a single human alive who can look at this chip and tell you with *certainty* - exactly what this chip is designed to do.
Can it make a secret phone call? Can it send and receive data via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or other 2-way data protocol? It was made in China. Are there hidden back doors in this chip permitting foreign actors to secretly hack into the device to change the outcome of an election?
The FACT is: it would take a *team* of the most skilled silicon engineers in the United States a MONTH to reverse engineer A SINGLE CHIP like this to be able to positively answer the questions above.
A MONTH to know with *certainty* that ONE chip in ONE voting machine (or server, or tabulator, or scanner, or poll-pad etc.) can be *trusted.*
Consequently, it is physically and logistically IMPOSSIBLE to inspect, certify, monitor, police, or in any other way determine, with CERTAINTY, a SINGLE voting machine -- Let alone *thousands* of them across the entire state of Texas!
The ONLY reason to use computer hardware, software or cloud services of ANY kind -- is to CHEAT! Anyone who argues otherwise has either has NO IDEA what they are talking about, or is a co-conspirator in the crimes being committed with the machines and software.
You ask: "...where is it vulnerable?" The answer is simple: If there is so much as a SINGLE computer, a single piece of software, a single third-party cloud service involved -- you have a MASSIVE VULNERABILITY!
The only way elections can be conducted safely, securely and accurately is by using paper, ink and many sets of eyeballs (observers). Everyone at the table (representing all parties) looks at *every* ballot, one at a time and agrees that the paper ballot contains votes for candidates x, y and z. Then they move on to the next paper ballot. That's how it worked for 150 years!
Additionally, the real-time, up-to-the-second knowledge of WHO voted, and who *hasn't* voted needs to be *banned* as well. The ONLY reason to facilitate this level of inside knowledge is to CHEAT! If you know -- in real time how many votes your (criminal) candidate needs, and you intend to *cheat,* what better information could you possibly ask for?
PLEASE make your platform be the loudest voice in the entire united states for the *permanent* BAN of all computers, software and electronic services in Texas elections!
Sincerely, a Texan and longtime tech engineer who *knows* how all of this stuff works.
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