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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is disturbing. The VP of security for @essvote, America's largest voting machine vendor (accou
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This is disturbing. The VP of security for @essvote, Americas largest voting machine vendor (accounting for 44% of US election equipment) came straight from the Trump administration in 2018.
2/ Link to 2017 Wharton report showing that ES&S accounts for about 44% of US election equipment (See Appendix A): https://trustthevote.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-whartonoset_industryreport.pdf
3/ His LinkedIn.
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This is disturbing. The VP of security for @essvote, America's largest voting machine vendor (accou (Original Post)
soothsayer
Jul 2020
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brooklynite
(94,502 posts)1. Voting machines aren't being rigged, so I'm not worried.
Sugarcoated
(7,722 posts)2. How are you so confident?
Reassure us
brooklynite
(94,502 posts)4. If you've convinced yourself they are hacked, then I can't
1. No losing candidate, campaign manager or Party official claims that voting machines have been hacked.
2. The voting machines that people claimed were hacked to make us lose in 2004, 2010, 2014 and 2016 and the same machines that let us win in 2006. 2008, 2012 and 2018.
3. If Republicans could secretly hack voting machines, then they wouldn't need to engage in the public voter suppression activities they actually try.
Sugarcoated
(7,722 posts)6. I didn't say that I was convinced of anything one way or the other
I don't know what to think, actually, that's why I asked why/what makes you so sure.
Renew Deal
(81,855 posts)3. I don't think it means much by itself.
Hes jumped around a lot of different companies. And a lot of IT people arent in it for the politics.
pecosbob
(7,537 posts)5. William Marcy Tweed: "As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?"
It's the vote-counting I worry about, not the voting machines...
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)7. I feel better