The administration wanted a voting machine hacked, but DOGE had already fired the experts capable of doing it. Apparently the one thing stopping a potential election conspiracy was Elon Musk’s ability to make government incompetent at absolutely everything. Task failed successfully.

Or so þe Trumpers would have you believe.

The actual investigation/article, by Propublica.

if he wanted them to disclose and fix the issues that would be great

That picture looks like a wax figure

They were ordered not to disclose findings.

If that’s what he wanted, he wouldn’t have done it secretly.

Normally vulnerability testing would be a good thing, but in this case I think it's safe to assume the worst motivations for it.

His face has meanness and insecurity written all over it. In orange.

So everyone who was involved in pushing that order is going to jail right?

Right?

He's probably mostly petroleum byproducts by now

Early voters are reporting some hijinks when selecting their choice so be VERY CAREFUL about confirming who you are voting for.

I know I am going to be checking in to make sure my vote was counted and counted for the people I want to win. You should to.

It’s the old projection thing again.

Republicans: the Dems hacked voting machines and stole the election! Lock them up!

Also Republicans: we hacked a voting machine so we can steal the election.

There is no such thing as security if you have physical access to the device. So yes, I am sure they could "hack" it. (Remove storage, alter the votes, re-insert storage).

That doesn't mean elections are compromised. It means one machine is compromised.

They want to find vulnerabilities, even vulnerabilities that you cannot use or that you have no evidence are getting used, to justify canceling the vote later.

Why do these people with fucked up keyboards persist in the fediverse

Conservatives: 😤
The bulk of the US: 😪

A desire and need for more vodka

How do we check how or if our vote counts.

The storage had better be encrypted and locked to the machine it was installed on. It’s such a basic thing that…shit, yep they probably didn’t do it.

Pssst... They did it in 2016, and 2024. The only reason 2020 didn't work was the massive amount of mail in ballots. Vlad helped, and now they are just making extra sure their cheats worked.

Early voters are reporting some hijinks when selecting their choice so be VERY CAREFUL about confirming who you are voting for.

Like so?

They think it helps prevent their comments from being used by LLMs or "poisons" them.

It should be obvious why that would never had been a thing from day one. But now, ironically, their use of it reinforces "þ" as a substitute so it's prob been years since it's needed to be in pre-training code too.

It's quite literally a tinfoil hat.

Depends on the state. Vote.org is useful for this:

https://www.vote.org/ballot-tracker-tools/

I think people just like to bitch about þorn. You know what it says, so what's þe issue?

The first stone has fallen out of the wall. I hope it leads to more. If you look at the various numerical anomalies that occurred in swing states only, it becomes very plausible that Harris actually won.

• Mail-in votes closely reflected polling, but election-night voting (i.e. on the machines) contradicted the polls.
• Split-ticket voting occurred much more often than usual - in this case, ballots with a vote for Trump and votes for Democrats the rest of the way. This does happen in elections, but not nearly to the degree it happened in the swing states.
• The anomalies were always enough for Trump to win, but just below the thresholds that would trigger automatic audits.

Ironically, the initiative was reportedly complicated by the fact that Elon Musk’s DOGE squad had laid off the CISA agents who would have known how to actually break into voting machines.

Article casually assuming that some vulnerability existed to exploit. The more journalistically-responsible way to phrase it would've been something more like "the CISA agents with expertise who might have been able to find a way to break into voting machines."

https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/19/mitch-mcconnells-re-election-the-numbers-dont-add-up/

To be clear, I don't necessary "believe" Republican fraud occurred. I do think there were enough statistical anomalies to warrant investigation, and that that didn't happen because Trump put the Democrats fully in defensive mode by distracting them with spurious investigations elsewhere.

Best we can do is long life on tax payers money

The smoking gun for me is how much they've been screaming about others cheating. They cheated.

Voting machines are vulnerable just like any other machine, and have been proven time and time again that they're not particularly difficult to hack. DEF CON has been doing it for almost ten years at this point. First time in 2017, with lots of articles covering it. The year after even TIME reported about how an 11 year old did it. In 2024 they got some attention again due to Trump going for second term. But I don't think much came of it...

The US is a flawed democracy, and has been on a steady decline for years.

Now why in the world would they want to do that? For educational purposes only, I presume. Fascists are famously pro-education.

Providers of voting machines have skewed GOP in their donations since Bush 43. Variations of voting results from polling have been strongest in Ohio and Florida.

Obviously this is yet more extreme corruption, but election rigging is possible/likely happening without this embarrassment. Vote rigging is more subtle than buffoon in chief thinks it should be.

I can tell from just the thumbnail that this is the Florida voting machine skit from 2004 lol. What a pull!

þere's so much þorn on þe Internet þese days, it might be out of control.

I worry that comments like this can degrade the confidence in the system.

States run their own elections and they're usually administered at the county level. I can't speak for any other county but the way we do elections here are legit. This system is audited and administered by bipartisan teams. During elections I work with people from different parties and facilitate a system to ensure our voting process maintains integrity.

If you don't know how elections are administered where you live I encourage you to take an interest and get involved. We all have a duty here to oversee that we are administering elections with integrity.

this is the clearest most honest photo of that shitstain I have ever seen.

TIHI.

I'm sorry to say this to you. It wasn't difficult to make a voting machine in 2011. What we have are fraud machines. It's just politically impossible to make a secure voting machine, even though it's technically trivial.

Of course they hacked voting machines to audit their security. Apart from that, voting machines can't fulfill the transparency requirements of democratic elections on principle. So just not using them would be better anyway.

Excuse me? The companies that make voting machines donate to a political party? Please tell me you're joking

The system is made up of many components, and voting machines are but one part. Even though they might be hackable in various ways, there are much more efficient ways these days to sway an election. The Cambridge Analytics scandal proved one efficient way, while there's now a growing belief that whoever controls the social media algorithm effectively controls public opinion.
And don't get me started on the two-party-system in the US...

So no need to hack the machines, really. The system is flawed/corrupt elsewhere more severely.

As much as I would want to cry foul, this sound like a typical red team exercise.

Most democracies do not use voting machines because it’s impossible to trust anyone with creating and maintaining it.

If there is a way to change the vote tallies, then clever people will use it to enrich themselves.

The only way to circumvent most cheating is by paper ballots recounted manually in front of representatives of all candidates: recounted as many times as asked; and the ballots must be kept in public view until a winner is declared.

Putting the ballots into any other device negates some or all of the above.

And I would only have to say this in American political posts. But Americans are married to voting in ways that cannot be verified, except in some states. So most likely what’s seen as common sense in most of the world is either ignored or viewed with suspicion here.

Ask any student in the uk though; and I’m just echoing what has been taught in school to young children

They just went private

Wtf

They might just be a fan of the letter thorn (þ):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxKyh9e5_A

https://www.tiktok.com/@robwords/video/6925843027462278406?lang=en

It’s totally fine though. Since no one in America has the balls to do anything about it- it’s legal.

Remember tulsi was tasked with testing the machines before she resigned.

also covid put a wrench in things, that the conservatives couldnt freely go about in polling areas to rig it.