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yodermon

(6,143 posts) Wed Apr 26, 2017, 07:29 PM Apr 2017

Voting machines running windows 2000??!

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Our Current Voting Machines were built to be proprietary. They work in a Windows 2000 environment!! Windows 2000!!
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Voting machines running windows 2000??! (Original Post) yodermon Apr 2017 OP

Totally secure Nwgirl503 Apr 2017 #1

Who is Mike Farb? frazzled Apr 2017 #2

Out of curiosity I looked up the OS for the machines I vote on Lee-Lee Apr 2017 #3

whether it's windows or secret proprietary stuff, it's hackable, untrustable garbage. nt TheFrenchRazor Apr 2017 #4

Nwgirl503

(406 posts)

1. Totally secure

Reply to yodermon (Original post)

Wed Apr 26, 2017, 07:37 PM

Apr 2017

Oh wait......

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

2. Who is Mike Farb?

Reply to yodermon (Original post)

Wed Apr 26, 2017, 08:16 PM

Apr 2017

As far as I know each of the 50 states runs their own voting systems, with different equipment and software they contract. I don't see how someone can make a blanket generalization about 50 different systems, some of which do not involve computer voting.

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)

3. Out of curiosity I looked up the OS for the machines I vote on

Reply to yodermon (Original post)

Wed Apr 26, 2017, 08:52 PM

Apr 2017

It's not windows based at all. It's custom firmware and software written in C and some Assembly Languge.

TheFrenchRazor

(2,116 posts)

4. whether it's windows or secret proprietary stuff, it's hackable, untrustable garbage. nt

Reply to yodermon (Original post)

Wed Apr 26, 2017, 09:56 PM

Apr 2017

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