***AND*** our voting machines were HACKED

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102. The specific ballot format and details have to be installed on each machine

The machines arrive BLANK - no software and some with no firmware.

How is the ballot information installed on the machines and in the machines?

There is where the vulnerability is.

The clerk gets on a VPN on the INTERNET and logs into a software hosted by the machine VENDOR and designs the ballot for each precinct (sometimes hundreds of precincts, each with a unique ballot)
Then the completed ballot (with all the candidates, questions, bond issues, etc) is then installed on each machine.

How is it installed?

-Online connectivity - In some precincts it is done over wi-fi connectivity (probably 30% this way)
-Hard wired connectivity - In some precincts is is done with ethernet cable connectivity
-Firmware or Microchip installation - In some districts (60%) it is done by OPENING THE MACHINES (so machines are unsealed, remember that) and installing four microchips which were PROGRAMMED by the VENDOR and burned onto chips and then SHIPPED to the clerk.

WHO AUDITS AND VETS THE ENTIRE CHAIN OF CUSTODY? WHO CHECKS THE BACKGROUND OF THE VENDOR EMPLOYEES? WHO AUDITS THE SECURITY OF THEIR NETWORK?

It does not take a conspiracy of many people - it only takes a single person at the vendor or the clerk's office or the shipping company. Or it only takes a single hack to install one obscure, hidden single line of base code that get installed on the microchips (to either strip&flip or to change the mode setting back and forth every few votes or change the calibration on the touchscreen.)

Any single employee in the installation process, on their network or involved in the chain of custody of the microchips or in the shipping or receiving process could rewrite the software, change a line of code in the software, change out the firmware, change out the chips or rewrite the chips and the entire election is rigged instantly. Any single employee at the shipping company could change the chips.

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The machines have different modes of operation-
training
testing
election

Who sets the mode? where is the button or setting to set the mode?
Who audits that the mode is correct for every single vote?

We call it blackbox voting because we there is no audit history log that can be made available to the clerk or to the public, and because neither clerks or secretaries of state nor citizen can audit the software code or the microchip code or the chips themselves. We call it blackbox voting because the entire process is completely and utterly vulnerable to tampering from software to firmware to mode-settings and to online and physical tampering.

The whole process depends on the security and integrity of a vendor, one of which we know for a fact was hacked by Russians last year.

Remember, the machines arrive blank.