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13. My brother 2002: give me a laptop and a cell phone, and I'll control any of the voting machines

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 06:38 AM

Apr 2018

My brother is not just some computer geek. He works on sensitive computer projects for DARPA and other government agencies.

He is very closed-mouthed, and never tells me any details about anything, but when the first round of questionable results came out of the 2002 midterms (Max Cleland "losing" his Senate seat to Saxby Chambliss in Georgia, for example), I asked him how reliable he thought the results reported from those machines were. He said "Give me a laptop and a cell phone, and I'll make any one of those things give you any result you want." It didn't even matter if they were connected to the internet or not. He said there were ways around that, and their programming had more holes than Swiss cheese. In 2002, he said that no one interested in tamper-proof vote tallying would ever use them.

He has not changed his assessment of the situation since.

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Hillary 2004: "Without paper, voting machines could be programmed to help GOP steal elections" [View all] Amaryllis Apr 2018 OP

a paper trail is not enough but it is better than no paper questionseverything Apr 2018 #1

Yes, we need much more than that, but my point was that Hillary and many others Amaryllis Apr 2018 #4

election integrity is my main concern questionseverything Apr 2018 #5

+1,000,000 This!!! diva77 Apr 2018 #11

o worse than i remembered...9% to 30% questionseverything Apr 2018 #14

thanks for this diva77 Apr 2018 #21

so glad you are interested questionseverything Apr 2018 #23

about request for recounts...you are so right questionseverything Apr 2018 #15

Recounts RandomAccess Apr 2018 #19

Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Bob Graham co-sponsored a bill elleng Apr 2018 #2

Yes, we need paper ballots. saidsimplesimon Apr 2018 #3

Not just could be, have been RandomAccess Apr 2018 #6

lance dehaven smith counted the overvotes questionseverything Apr 2018 #16

It's the funniest thing -- RandomAccess Apr 2018 #17

richard charnin has done alot of research about that questionseverything Apr 2018 #18

K & R malaise Apr 2018 #7

This is still relevant today. C Moon Apr 2018 #8

What I don't understand (well I kind of do) why this is not front and center to the U.S. public. YOHABLO Apr 2018 #9

Well at least 1/2 the public don't bother to vote. triron Apr 2018 #10

She knew back then.. Cha Apr 2018 #12

My brother 2002: give me a laptop and a cell phone, and I'll control any of the voting machines DFW Apr 2018 #13

+1,000,000,000 RandomAccess Apr 2018 #20

K&R R B Garr Apr 2018 #22